SANTA ANA - An Orange County lawyer has filed an unusual antitrust lawsuit accusing a large Kern County farm of hiring illegal...

Presiding Judge Stephen O. Hedstrom, a former county prosecutor, often sees the dark side of Clearlake, a secluded rural commu...

Cox, Castle & Nicholson has bolstered its litigation practice with the addition of veteran commercial litigator Jonathan S...

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Forum Column: The American Bar Association is at it again. Recently, its Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary unanimous...

Forum Column: Ruben Cantu was only 26 years old when he was executed by the state of Texas for a murder and robbery. A single ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nicholas S. "Nick" Freud of San Francisco, a distinguished international tax lawyer who was a direct descenden...

SAN FRANCISCO - While Alix Rosenthal was working as a San Francisco elections commissioner in 2002, her managing partner at Th...

A plaintiff whose repeated efforts to settle are turned down, and who then wins at trial, may get to collect some extra cash u...

LOS ANGELES - Asbestos litigation in Southern California recently reached a turning point with the implementation of a $377 mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Do drug addicts suffer from a chronic disease that should be treated, or are they exhibiting anti-social behav...

A Mexican gay man who dressed as a woman should not have been denied political asylum in the United States just because he did...

Friends who provide medical care to elders must prove they did not engage in deceit or pressure tactics to win an inheritance,...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gibson W. Lee relies on an arsenal of discipline, humor and respect to get youthful offenders...

VENTURA - Mark Borrell completed the 129-mile "Death Ride" this summer. The grueling one-day ride, officially called the Tour...

LOS ANGELES - There's no address marker or sign outside, and the building hides behind a layer of ivy. That's the way Blair Be...

LOS ANGELES - Gregory B. Koltun has taken over as managing partner of Morrison & Foerster's Los Angeles office after his p...

LOS ANGELES - Just a few months after becoming a partner at national powerhouse McGuireWoods, corporate taxation specialist Ma...

LOS ANGELES - Natasha Roit has spent most of her legal career looking out for the little guy. ...

Focus Column - The California Legislature joined a growing national trend when it passed the state's first anti-SLAPP law, pro...

SAN JOSE - In another example of the potential legal exposure of some company lawyers in options backdating investigations, Sa...

Riverside lawyer Bruce D. Varner is one of two men appointed Thursday to the California Board of Regents. ...

SACRAMENTO - Politics once again is threatening court officials' efforts to get 50 new judges on the state's bench over the ne...

Forum Column - Three cheers for Vaughn Walker. Vaughn who? you ask. Until very recently, he was also unknown to lawyers and po...

SACRAMENTO - Tort reformers are hailing the demise of legislation that would have revived the ability of the state attorney ge...

LOS ANGELES - The ink is dry on a potentially $900-million settlement in a class action against Epson America and there's good...

SAN FRANCISCO - California has long struggled with a fundamental paradox: People love it here and more keep coming, but in so ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has entered the contentious debate over judicial training, issuing an advisory o...

Loeb & Loeb has announced the promotion of three partners to chair positions in their Los Angeles and New York offices.

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Stephen J. Sundvold has been so successful settling cases that another judge wa...