FORUM COLUMN - By Kara Dansky - The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that part of California's sentencing scheme is unconstitutiona...

FORUM COLUMN - By Michael Axline - The city of Modesto's $178 million verdict against Dow Chemical was an appropriate applicat...

Make Room on Bench for Public Defenders

Veteran lobbyist Ray LeBov has turned his years of experience in the State Capitol into an education for others, With his insi...

SAN JOSE - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw is beefing up its intellectual property practice with the addition to its Palo Alto of...

RIVERSIDE - In a drastic move, Riverside's supervising criminal court judge Friday dismissed two misdemeanor cases, saying the...

LOS ANGELES - Litigator Dominique R. Shelton's move into the Los Angeles office of Kaye Scholer from Folger, Levin & Kahn ...

LOS ANGELES - Four more partners are departing Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner's downtown Los Angeles office for desti...

SAN FRANCISCO - The new chairwoman of the Senate Judiciary Committee met with state-court administrators recently to discuss p...

FORUM COLUMN - By Eliot G. Disner - The Iraq war was just an abstraction to a Los Angeles trial lawyer until he saw flag-stenc...

FORUM COLUMN - By Robert D. Terris - A policeman shoots someone in an angry crowd. Lawsuits galore, right? Not in Gaza, where ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith's San Francisco employment capabilities were missing an integral part befo...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge has sided with several media organizations that wanted access to a lawsuit and exhibits ...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert D. "Bo" Links - Think your literary brief-writing style is convincing to judges? Probably not, says a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Megafirm DLA Piper announced today the launch of a plan designed to make the 3,200-lawyer business a more envi...

LOS ANGELES - The brand-new entity K&L Gates picked up a brand-new partner for its Los Angeles office, when Fred D. Heathe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A mandatory retirement policy forced Lawrence W. Keeshan out of his job at PriceWaterhouse Coopers Internation...

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who wears a "permanently surprised" expression after five plastic surgeries is not defaming her doctor...

Editor's Note: The United States is a nation of immigrants. More than one in four California residents came here from foreign ...

LOS ANGELES - Criminal-defense attorneys are crying foul as prosecutors in Los Angeles adjust their tactics to comply with las...

LOS ANGELES - Since launching their "safer cities" initiative in early August, Los Angeles police have made 4,800 arrests on S...

SANTA ANA - As a lawyer, Charles Margines spent 18 years defending criminal cases, both as a public defender and as a sole pra...

Trial Lawyers Group Names New President

LOS ANGELES - With his British-Jamaican accent and a preference for bow ties, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Spurgeon E. Smi...

Sometimes, Lynn Bassis finds too many amygdalas in the mediation room. ...

The high standards of law school admissions have led some would-be students to seek professional editing help with the persona...

FRESNO - David Gottlieb has been on the bench for less than two years, but he already has cleared a backlog of preliminary hea...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Barry Zalma - Before your clients get excited about bad-faith claims, you should make sure they did not give...

SAN FRANCISCO - Henry E. Needham was unanimously confirmed Thursday as a justice on the 1st District Court of Appeal, Division...

WASHINGTON - Three federal judicial nominees from California moved a step closer Thursday to confirmation by the U.S. Senate. ...