LOS ANGELES - Shareholders suing Broadcom Corp. executives over backdated stock options sailed past a critical hurdle when a f...

WASHINGTON - On Jan. 24, 2006, guards at the U.S. government's prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, overheard an inmate reading a b...

Focus Column - By John Cleaves - Demonstrative evidence can be nearly anything, something you know only when you see it. So ho...

The supervising judge of San Francisco’s criminal courts is frustrated that prosecutors frequently show up unprepared to go to...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Michele E. Flurer gained a love and skill for logical debate as a child at he...

SAN JOSE - Plaintiffs' attorneys have dropped a lawsuit against officers and directors of Novellus Systems over stock-options ...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Want to see a feeding frenzy? Look no further than Silicon Valley, where the heavyweights are...

Focus Column - By Mark Labaton - How the courts in securities litigation define scheme liability by so-called “gatekeepers” co...

Forum Column - by Cary Lowe - For some USC students who tried to demonstrate against university purchases of sweatshop-produce...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer suing the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles said the judge overseeing the sexual-abuse litigati...

LOS ANGELES - If the Northern California mergers-and-acquisitions market is like speed dating - watch Google and Yahoo elbow e...

Amadou Diouf, an immigrant from Senegal, was forcibly drugged by federal immigration agents who were attempting to deport him ...

SAN FRANCISCO - What do English footballers and music publishers have in common? They have teamed to file a class action again...

In a crackdown on immigrants two years ago, Congress told foreign asylum-seekers they could no longer file habeas-corpus appea...

Thomas C. Falls, supervising judge of Pomona's East District, sees his job as making the lives of the other judges easier. ...

During Harry E. Hull Jr.'s nine years as a justice on the 3rd District Court of Appeal, he has dealt with significant and cont...

Signaling a push to address issues facing minority groups within the legal community, the Bar Association of San Francisco has...

WASHINGTON - Call it a renaissance year for U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. For the first time, the court posted free, sam...

LOS ANGELES - Three veteran judges are set to retire this month from the Los Angeles County Superior Court. ...

Forum Column - by Don A. Ernst - The latest study claiming to rank so-called “anti-business” state legal systems is another af...

Industry Watch - By Anne Marie Ruff - Ricardo J. Soto has moved from the state Office of the Secretary of Education to the San...

SAN BERNARDINO - A state appeals court Friday tossed out a $3 million libel judgment against a Hesperia-based newspaper publis...

Prosecutors in San Diego won't fight an appellate court ruling that found they buried evidence that could have cleared a murde...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Susan Lapsley, an adviser on elections policy to the former secretary of...

Industry Watch - By Max Follmer - LOS ANGELES - Squire, Sanders & Dempsey snagged veteran litigators Steven A. Lamb and Do...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - Perkins Coie's Los Angeles office has added complex commercial litigator Dona...

Forum Column - By John H. Sullivan - The rant from the plaintiffs' bar about the latest bad news on the fairness and reasonabl...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - We may never know who murdered Biggie or Tupac, but it looks like one front in...

A memorial service will take place May 20 at Paso Robles City Hall for attorney Paul M. Posner, a key figure in the state's un...

Focus Column - By Bernard S. Kamine - A legislative change and an appellate opinion together mean the changed-conditions claus...