LOS ANGELES - The line between advertising and entertainment is being blurred thanks to branded entertainment, a gray area whe...

LOS ANGELES - Pacing before the crowd, Daniel Petrocelli, lead attorney for Enron's former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, found an audi...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Paul A. Blumenstein and Sanjay M. Shirodkar - A recent decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Am...

LOS ANGELES -Robert Kwan, deputy chief of the Los Angeles U.S. attorney's tax division, has been appointed to the Bankruptcy C...

SAN FRANCISCO - Merger talks between Stoel Rives and Sacramento-based Weintraub Genshlea Chediak, which started earlier this y...

SAN FRANCISCO - The executive board of the California Judges Association has decided to back a proposal that could help end mo...

SAN BERNARDINO - In what appears to be the state's largest medical malpractice verdict this year, a 7-year-old cerebral palsy ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The longtime maker of the ubiquitous Tillamook cheese "has a beef" with a smoked meats and jerky seller from t...

SAN FRANCISCO - At Pelican Bay State Prison, convicted murderer Aldridge Currie has a federal judge's order, signed in July, s...

WASHINGTON - Wednesday's U.S. Supreme Court argument over the constitutionality of California's criminal sentencing system was...

WASHINGTON - It has been eight months since the U.S. Supreme Court cast a shadow over California's criminal justice system whe...

VALLEJO - Defense lawyer Daniel Russo cuts a strange figure as he walks around Vallejo, home to Six Flags Marine World, a shut...

FORUM COLUMN - By Ellen Aprill - The IRS is investigating whether a sermon given at All Saints Church here in Pasadena shortly...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Fred Silberberg - It has become commonplace for judicial officers to appoint counsel for minor children in c...

SANTA ANA - Ronald L. Bauer knows that many lawyers supported his application to be an Orange County Superior Court judge 15 y...

LOS ANGELES - The partnership at the San Francisco litigation boutique Senn Meulemans took a good look at itself earlier this ...

SACRAMENTO - The winning candidate for California attorney general in November's election will be stepping into an office with...

FORUM COLUMN - By Richard M. Mosk - There have been a number of biographies of Earl Warren. ...

LOS ANGELES - After 16 months as Los Angeles' first deputy mayor for homeland security and public safety, Maurice Suh is will ...

An appellate judge Tuesday urged the state's highest court to do away with a 68-year-old doctrine that he argued can be used t...

United Parcel Service cannot deny deaf employees the opportunity to work as package-vehicle drivers, a federal appeals court r...

SAN DIEGO - He's headed the organization for only a year. But that's all the time Kevin Keenan needed to rekindle a fire in th...

There's nothing Orange County Superior Court Judge Warren H. Siegel likes as much as a good opera. But when it comes to court,...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Joseph S. Wu - Starting in December, all parties appearing before the federal courts will have to grapple wi...

FORUM COLUMN - By Elizabeth A. Moreno - The Los Angeles Superior Court's Civil Mediation Panel is not inclusive and destroys t...

FORUM COLUMN - By Ronald A. Peters - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did employers a good turn by vetoing SB 815, legislation that ...

COLUMN - RICK KENNEDY - Last week's headliner deals seemed to reinforce the year's recurring theme: no sector of the economy i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Paul R. Haerle, at the time a very political Republican lawyer, filed suit in 1982 to block Democratic Gov. Je...

LOS ANGELES - The ACLU of Southern California wants a federal judge to order four immigrants released from detention centers w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired judges working in alternative dispute resolution are worried proposed changes to their rules of profes...