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...

Forum Column - By Maya Harris - The executive director of the ACLU of Northern California explains the organization's lawsuit ...

Focus Column - By Kevin Martin and Jason Riddick - A new Justice Department guideline may change the way that corporations han...

When Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced his support of the Safer Cities initiative last year, he said increased law enforcem...

Senegalese immigrant Amadou Diouf, who says he was forcibly drugged for deportation by immigration authorities, is one of two ...

LOS ANGELES - Otis Howard was smoking a cigarette outside a Skid Row mission in December when he was handcuffed, searched and ...

Web Exclusive - A patent by a research office has won a rare permanent injunction. ...

The former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. backdated employee stock-options grants, his lawyer argued Monday in ope...

Victor Hwang was a young attorney in Irell & Manella's Los Angeles office seven years ago when he decided to quit to take ...

Focus Column - By Phillip A. Rafferty - A new California Supreme Court ruling fundamentally alters the standards for second-de...

Forum Column - By K.C. Victor - 10 tips will help lawyers seeking more clients. ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the federal law governing employee-benefit plans allows an...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - How appropriate that a company called Limelight Networks Inc. underwent a lucrative initial pub...