SACRAMENTO - A fight is brewing over whether charter schools must adhere to tough conflict-of-interest rules that apply to pub...

Scott Ciment has traded the comforts of Newport Beach for a security compound in Kabul, pursuing his dream of helping young de...

The state labor commissioner overstepped her authority two years ago when she unilaterally reduced penalties for employers who...

Orange County Judge Stephen Perk makes settlement conferences a required stop when litigants embark on a civil case ...

Two Ventura Jurists Retire From Bench

Forum Column - By Julia Harumi Mass and Phillip Hwang - ICE raids in Hispanic communities bring to light serious questions ab...

On Monday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made it tougher for long-settled legal immigrants who have committed an aggra...

LOS ANGELES - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips bolstered its East Coast entertainment profile Monday with the addition of new-med...

Focus Column - By Richard M. Coleman - The "Musings of a Discovery Referee" series continues with a look at a commonly used le...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer did not rule Monday on a defense motion to dismiss all criminal charges aga...

Eliot G. Disner, left, waged a 2 1/2-year battle against BAR/BRI and Kaplan over Bar Exam classes that culminated Monday with...

LOS ANGELES - When Ted A. White, a West Virginia attorney, abruptly quit his post as a Los Angeles immigration judge this year...

LOS ANGELES - A former Milberg Weiss partner pleaded guilty to federal charges Monday as part of a cooperation deal that is ex...

Focus Column - By Cecily T. Talbert and Joshua Safran - Developers looking to fight back against government land-use restrict...

Newly minted Los Angeles County Bar Association President Gretchen M. Nelson takes the helm with several objectives in mind. C...

LOS ANGELES - In the 22 years since the Environmental Protection Agency banned the use of a pesticidal chemical in this countr...

Focus Column - By Joseph S. Belichick - One of 2007's less-hyped Supreme Court decisions marked a dramatic shift in pleading s...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - Westlake Village-based attorney Dien Le opened the California directory of at...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The president's recent commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence turned a constitutional p...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert C. Todd, a founder of the Association of Southern California Defense Cou...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Anthony Caso, former chief counsel of the Pacific Legal Foundation, has ope...

Web Exclusive - Three antitrust litigation partners at Bingham McCutchen have jumped ship for Perkins Coie, according to a sou...

Forum Column - By Diane J. Klein - The Supreme Court didn't just get the ruling wrong in two recent school segregation cases; ...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Amanda Saxton has been appointed chief of the enforcement division at the F...

Lawyers who are caught deceiving the judge can't duck away from the courthouse into arbitration, a state appellate panel has h...

The prosecution's case against former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes in the first criminal stock options bac...

SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property lawyers and high-tech firms are counting on a new program that uses volunteers to reduce...

LOS ANGELES - Years of resource shortages have choked the U.S. attorney's office in the Central District of California, leadin...

William Murray has done well in Stockton, both in his ascension to the bench and in his role in the community, and the jurist ...

After his 'Brady Bunch' childhood and coaching his own children's teams, Commissioner Craig E. Arthur finds his child-support ...