The largest certified class of workers in history can go forward with a sexual discrimination lawsuit against the world's larg...
LOS ANGELES - With the federal criminal investigation into misdated stock options at KB Home continuing, former CEO and Chairm...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Thomas P. Krzeminski - Before you or your client call your friendly newspaper reporter to talk about a pendi...
Citing the large-scale failure of anti-piracy technology, Apple CEO Steve Jobs urged the major record labels Tuesday to licens...
FORUM COLUMN - By Andrew J. Guilford - It just ain't fair. Maury Wills was the greatest star the Dodgers ever had, and he's no...
Success playing hockey led Hector M. Guzman indirectly to his new role as Superior Court judge, where he is learning when to p...
Mayor Gavin Newsom, who issued an emotional public apology last week for having an affair with the wife of a former aide, may ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge ruled Tuesday that confidential files belonging to a dead priest accused of molesting minors...
Law firms with a large presence in the nation's capital are set to cash in as the new Democratic-controlled Congress steps up ...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Unanimously Approves Three California Federal Judges
By Hurley
The U.S. Senate confirmed three nominees for California federal judgeships last week. ...
A Sherman Oaks divorce lawyer will get a new trial on charges that she went to criminal lengths to stalk and intimidate a fost...
LOS ANGELES - The Anthony Pellicano wiretapping saga began in 2002 with a scene straight out of pulp fiction, with a warning d...
FORUM COLUMN - By Peter Scheer - Say it ain't so. Say that local governments aren't secretive. Not only is a First Amendment a...
John Milwitt didn't go to law school, but that did not stop him from advertising his "legal services" in the Yellow Pages. ...
DEALS COLUMN - By Jason Song - When Delaware-based Babcock & Brown Renewable Holdings Inc. wanted to acquire an equity int...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Michael G. Lufkin - Before global warming submerges the world's major cities, the SEC should start regulatin...
LOS ANGELES - Though trial may be theater, few attorneys give thought to a compelling set design. But when a judge nixed Depu...
SAN FRANCISCO - First, District Attorney Kamala Harris pledged to get tougher on people who take swings at police officers. Th...
LOS ANGELES - The nation's leading bar review provider has agreed to pay $36 million to settle a pair of antitrust class actio...
PASADENA - A turn of turtles inhabits Kim Wardlaw's chambers. Sparkling and vibrant, the small figurines appear on the judge...
SAN JOSE - Most everyone in the Santa Clara County courtroom of Judge Mark H. Pierce on a recent day knew what was about to ha...
Coins in a fountain became a wish fulfilled for Santa Barbara County Superior Court Presiding Judge J. William McLafferty.
Maya Lakshmi Harris, new executive director of the ACLU of Northern California, admits that her job of overseeing multiple civ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda District Attorney Tom Orloff's top deputy, a woman, was quick to come to his defense after a veteran f...
SAN FRANCISCO - After litigating intellectual property matters for 28 years at a firm that has grown exponentially in head cou...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Cecily T. Talbert and Joshua Safran - Just when a Santa Barbara County developer thought it was able to go a...
SAN FRANCISCO - William B. Sechrest prefers to think of economics as the efficient allocation of abundant resources - as oppos...
On the Move ...
LOS ANGELES - More Southern California-based firms have raised associate salaries. ...
LOS ANGELES - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton picked up an environmental partner from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius this...