Newly appointed Judge Stan Blumenfeld has made fast work of mastering the criminal law he needs for his misdemeanor calendar. ...

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte was honored Friday night by California Women Lawyers, which gave her t...

Gopi Vedachalam began working as a systems analyst for Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai nearly a decade ago. ...

LOS ANGELES - UCLA law students will have a chance to work in government or at public-interest law firms without worrying abou...

Forum Column - By Andrew B. Coan - The latest chapter in the U.S.-attorney imbroglio concerns the reach of executive privilege...

Web Exclusive - Chastened on appeal, a Los Angeles prosecutor says he now knows not to compare a home robbery to the 9/11 terr...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - For years, Macau's gaming industry was something out of the classic 1942 film "Casablanca," an ...

SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, has appointed Los Angeles civil rights lawyer Molly Munger to the F...

LOS ANGELES - The bitter legal feud between indicted celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano and his former girlfriend Sandra ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Years before she was accused of forging documents in death penalty appeals, Kathleen Culhane stood before a gr...

WASHINGTON - In a case that could bring significant changes to the retail industry, members of the U.S. Supreme Court expresse...

LOS ANGELES - First, local homeless nonprofits lost federal funding for proposed housing projects because of problems with the...

Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - A new family law case teaches spouses that they canno...

Love it or hate it, e-filing of court documents will soon be required in California. Most lawyers who have switched love the n...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Presiding Judge David Ballati has backed down on replacing the popular judge who runs the comple...

Web Exclusive - A San Diego family lawyer serving as a temporary judge in a messy $70 million divorce case cannot be sued for ...

LOS ANGELES - Funding and feasibility are two reasons why the Los Angeles County Superior Court has not kept up with three Sou...

Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - OAKLAND - Toxic-torts litigator Douglas G. Wah has threatened Minneapolis-based ...

Web Exclusive - LOS ANGELES - Indicted celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano appeared in court Friday not as a defendant but...

Industry Watch - By Gabe Friedman - LOS ANGELES - Andrew Petillon, a Securities and Exchange Commission veteran, has been tapp...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - he Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association will honor Ventura Superior Court Judge David W...

Forum Column - By Jeff Adachi - San Francisco's public defender isn't impressed with state Senate Bill 40, which would make it...

LOS ANGELES - Appellate lawyer Patricia Lofton, who became a lawyer after a career in the performing arts, has died after a lo...

A federal appeals panel ruled Friday that U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz of Los Angeles applied the federal Medicaid Act i...

Industry Watch - By Andrew Harmon - Intellectual property attorney Steven Weinberg recently traded one Greenberg for another. ...

Focus Column - By Ronald A. Hartmann - A new decision treads the bumpy ground of court-ordered mediations. ...

WASHINGTON - Democrats in Congress and Republicans in the White House have spent the last week staring each other down over wh...

WASHINGTON - In 14 detailed, bullet-pointed pages, investors who lost money in telecommunications specialist Tellabs Inc., pai...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - Networking events don't always involve crowded Westside bars with $10 cocktai...

SANTA BARBARA - When Joseph L. Lodge was elected to the bench in 1958, judges didn't have to be attorneys and the right to be ...