Paul Schmidhauser has joined Rutan & Tucker's Orange County office as senior counsel. Schmidhauser, who joined the firm's...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Joel Wallenstein has seen enough in his courtroom and his favorite movies, to b...

EMPLOYMENT-- By now, most employment lawyers have heard the drumbeat of optimism resulting from the Aug. 22, 2006, decision of...

FORUM--In asserting that "discretion is not whim," and to ensure that the exercise of discretion harmonizes with the "basic pr...

SAN JOSE - Even after doing it for years, Darrel W. Lewis still gets a lot of satisfaction out of settling legal disputes, an ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Among the megafirms that push and pull to be atop today's legal landscape, a shingle in China is perhaps the m...

FOCUS-- It is not every day that an appellate court strikes down on constitutional grounds one of Congress' laws that has been...

How did a defense attorney screw up his client's capital murder case 20 years ago? ...

FORUM-- Many law schools across the country have experienced considerable growth in their LL.M. programs. ...

WASHINGTON - The new-look U.S. Supreme Court is making its proceedings more transparent and accessible to the public. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County judge seemed unwilling Thursday to dismiss a challenge to a new law that toughens the provis...

SAN FRANCISCO - Voter rights activists lost their bid to persuade a San Francisco judge Thursday to halt the use of electronic...

SANTA ANA - Jurors considering whether to impose the death penalty against two kingpins of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang r...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's efforts to reduce automobile tailpipe exhaust associated with global warming heads for a courtroo...

With Hewlett-Packard facing investigations by two state attorney generals, federal prosecutors in San Francisco, two other fed...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's second-largest river will flow freely with salmon once more under an historic agreement announced...

SAN DIEGO - Hours before the CBS TV show "Rock Star: Supernova" was scheduled to hold its season finale Wednesday night, a fed...

Focus Column--In recent weeks, a multitude of class actions have been filed alleging that retailers and others violated the So...

The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether outsourcing of government contracts can be limited...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state judges' college offers a wide variety of education courses, but falls short when it comes to trackin...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Gerald M. Condon, co-founder of the Santa Monica-based firm Condon, Condon & F...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Wednesday declared a mistrial in the civil damages case of Herman Atkins, who was exonerated ...

A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a harassment verdict won by a former female corrections officer who was repeatedly su...

Forum Column-- Law school rankings are a lot like car wrecks: Nobody wants to be involved with one, but everyone pays attentio...

LOS ANGELES - Mary Catherine Dispenza says she lost her childhood at age 7, when a Catholic priest sexually abused her. ...

A divided federal appellate panel on Wednesday vetoed an Arizona murderer's death wish and instead ruled that his sentencing h...

LOS ANGELES - Low wages at the state's crime lab are being blamed for a backlog of 300,000 untested DNA samples collected unde...

VICTORVILLE - If you work for this San Bernardino County desert town and you run into a member of the City Council sipping a s...

Focus Column-- Employment cases involve many recurring evidentiary issues. Indeed, oftentimes parties file more than twenty se...

LOS ANGELES - After years of navigating an intricate legal and financial path, the people who make the movies and the people w...