Forum Column - By Mark Labaton - Five years after a sea change in corporate regulation, the blockbuster legislation continues ...

LOS ANGELES - Sherwin L. Memel, a senior partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and widely regarded as one of the pioneers o...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - As a young boy, Vahe Yacoubian never imagined he would one day represent his family's homel...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - The Los Angeles office of Arent Fox is moving toward a regional health-care practice after ...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - The California Medical Association has tapped Deborah Winegard, a Georgia lawyer who has...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - McDermott Will & Emery has added two intellectual property attorneys to its expanding L...

The probate department at the Alameda County Administration Building is moving to Berkeley on Monday. ...

LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit filed on behalf of policyholders accuses a state-run workers' compensation insurer of fraudulent bookk...

CHINO - Their feet shackled and their hands cuffed, the five inmates were driven in a van across the prison yard. Halfway to t...

Los Angeles attorney Maurice Suh is defending Tour de France rider Alexandre Vinokourov, who was ejected after testing positiv...

Appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by President Clinton in 1995, Susan Illston has b...

Judge George A. Miram keeps his courtroom on track while developing innovative programs for the San Mateo County Superior C...

Judge Jonathan H. Cannon, a 20-year veteran of Orange County's Superior Court, has left the bench.

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Studying up on a traffic offense he incurred as a teenager put Judge Greg Jones in the driver's seat for a career in law. ...

In a setback for law enforcement in at least 28 cities, a divided California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that police depar...

CHICAGO - The second-quarter report for Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. showed net income of $77.9 million and year-to-date net income...

SAN BERNARDINO - A Superior Court jury has ordered a Catholic nun and her Indiana order to pay a Redlands woman $3.2 million f...

Focus Column - By Elizabeth Lampert - Learning the art of promoting your legal work in the media can lead to a business windfa...

Forum Column - By Roberta Bennett and David Gamblin - It will take nothing short of gay marriage to create full equality for s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signaled Thursday to Republican legislators that they should not stall the state bu...

Focus Column - Virginia DeMarchi - Long-standing trends in when the holder of an infringed patent can obtain an injunction are...

SANTA ANA - A Nobel Prize-winning economist will join the Chapman University School of Law faculty in January, the school anno...

LOS ANGELES - It's hard to imagine Alan G. Saler has a penchant for candy. Despite casting a lean profile, Saler always keeps ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor said Thursday the criminal backdating case against former Brocade Communications Systems ...

Six years ago, Bel Air residents Ned and Marcia Goldstein thought they had a run-of-the-mill boundary dispute when neighbor Cy...

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - Law firms can't afford to overlook the morass of California's employment laws and ...

Three nonprofit advocacy groups are claiming the California Department of Social Services' policy requiring foster children to...

SACRAMENTO - Some of the $13.5 million the state got in the settlement of its pretexting suit against Hewlett-Packard will be ...