FORUM COLUMN - In an August 28 Forum column ("New Math: One of Nine Votes Equals a Majority?"), Michael M. Berger reviewed the...

SANTA ANA - Maxwell S. Boas, a founder and driving force behind Western State University College of Law, died Friday morning a...

LOS ANGELES - The government of Iran has hired an American lawyer, dispatched its former president to the United States, and p...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas Perkins, the former Hewlett-Packard board member at the center of the pretexting controversy, has mounted...

LOS ANGELES - In an usual twist, lawyers for the Los Angeles Archdiocese temporarily won a fight to keep priests files confide...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is likely to face yet another legal challenge to putting enemy combatants on trial if Con...

"The judge was an attractive, diminutive blonde and ex-prosecutor who had been on the bench at least as long as I'd had my tic...

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary added Ronen Elad as partner in the firm's Century City office. Elad, who left Gibson, Dunn & C...

LOS ANGELES - The Day of the Dead is nearly two months away, and Teresa Sanchez-Gordon can't wait. ...

LOS ANGELES - Casey Reilly plops down on the living room sofa between his mother, attorney N. Jane DuBovy, and Carrie Watts, a...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - One of the most perplexing issues employment lawyers face is how long an employer must hold open a positio...

LOS ANGELES - What happens in Vegas will return to Los Angeles. At least some of it, anyway. ...

There's something fitting about a man who has spent much of his career presiding over the dissolutions of other peoples' marri...

FORUM COLUMN - The Supreme Court's recent decision in Copley Press Inc. v. Superior Court of San Diego County, 2006 DJDAR 1183...

LOS ANGELES - Should a law firm retained to set up a family trust be held liable for the theft of $3.6 million from the trust ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area companies and executives facing the scrutiny of both the Department of Justice and the Securities and...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has refused to let a retail store chain off the hook for not making its Web site accessible to...

From stricter trademark applications to complex trade secret litigation, intellectual property lawyers from across the state d...

FORUM COLUMN - A freelance documentary filmmaker is facing jail time for refusing to comply with a subpoena to turn over to fe...

RIVERSIDE - Immigration prosecutions surged dramatically between 1994 and 2003, leading an upswing in federal criminal cases n...

WASHINGTON - President Bush has nominated two Los Angeles County Superior Court judges to vacant seats on the U.S. District Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Senate has unanimously confirmed law professor Kimberly A. Moore's nomination to the U.S. Court of Ap...

SANTA ANA - The two leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang are "legends" in the federal prison system and shouldn't be r...

LOS ANGELES - When Attorney Brad D. Brian began his tenure as the chairman of the American Bar Association's section on litiga...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Oakland city planner and advocate for the rights of bicyclists has settled a lawsuit against the Calt...

The state Supreme Court all but declared "Bad Party Foul!" on Wednesday while reviewing a state policy that allows liquor lic...

SAN MATEO - The complicated legal dramas arising in a less-populated county of the world's high-tech capital have their very o...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley vowed Wednesday to continue efforts to retool California's three-strikes law desp...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland attorney and politician whose advertisements proclaiming himself the 'People's Lawyer' became a sta...

LOS ANGELES - The Screen Actors Guild named Duncan Crabtree-Ireland as its general counsel on Wednesday. ...