SAN FRANCISCO - A world-renowned doctor who runs a winery has agreed to pay Napa County $550,000 over land-use violations at h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists today will ask a federal judge to give biologists a legal say in running the state's massive...

Two criminal defense attorneys have accused San Francisco prosecutors and police of colluding with federal agents to set up a ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday imposed new pleading requirements for shareholders trying to sue public compan...

SACRAMENTO - The Sacramento chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates has named Superior Court Judge James L. Long huma...

A slew of federal criminal charges against top executives over misdated stock options has thrust securities powerhouses like B...

As in nature, the legal industry is in a constant state of evolution. Only the fittest (read: profitable) practices seem to su...

The American Bar Association has backed down from its widely criticized plan to require more students pass the bar exam before...

When a founding partner at Indian Wells-based business-law boutique Roemer Harnik & Nethery died unexpectedly in May, the ...

Best Best & Krieger Managing Partner Eric Garner explains how to expand a small, regional firm to a major statewide presen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George Wednesday named three new members to the Judicial Council. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prosecution witness gave dramatic testimony against her former boss Wednesday in the first stock-options bac...

Focus Column - By Allan K.A. Marson, Yuanyuan Cheng and Jinghua Liu - A bevy of new laws will change the way American invest...

Forum Column - By Joan C. Williams - Proposals to prohibit discrimination against employees with family responsibilities are a...

LOS ANGELES - For the second time in two months, a state appellate panel has ruled that the Children's Law Center of Los Angel...

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to require companies to post proxy materials online, ending...

SAN FRANCISCO - Berkeley attorney Lainey Feingold is doing what a lot of lawyers in the disability rights field do: getting bi...

LOS ANGELES - To even the most casual observer of Los Angeles political news, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has seen better w...

WASHINGTON - Leading Californian politicians are putting increasing pressure on the Environmental Protection Agency to grant t...

Forum Column - By Robert C. Barnes and Les Lo Baugh - Developers may be able to profit from getting ahead of California's comi...

Glenda Sanders left South Africa and brought with her a perspective on justice learned from her formerly apartheid country. ...

From "Alpha Dog" to emissions regulations to KB Home, the past year has seen more than its share of activity for lawyers and f...

Led by Bert Fields at Greenberg Glusker, and firms like Spillane Shaeffer and Ziffren Brittenham, entertainment law has explod...

With experts in almost every facet of land use and environmental policy, Latham & Watkins has been called on to handle som...

This year's "Top Southern California Law Firms" supplement explores some of the region's up-and-coming practice areas, as well...

Lawmakers, including Sen. Denise Moreno Ducheny, on Tuesday resolved most of their remaining differences over which judicial-b...

SAN FRANCISCO - A pediatrician convicted of felony sex with a child has been able to practice medicine for nearly two years af...

LOS ANGELES - A federal district judge's literal reading of copyright law has drawn academics and industry leaders into the de...

LOS ANGELES - James A. Bascue, a former presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Courts, has retired after 37 years ...

Forum Column - By Horace Cooper - The men who dominated Anna Nicole Smith's life are trying to safeguard her money, not her da...