LOS ANGELES - Going to court is rarely fun. But for four years, Kids' Place has turned thousands of court appearances for adul...

LOS ANGELES - An electrical fire early Monday closed the Central Civil West Courthouse near downtown Los Angeles. The courthou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three minority-owned legal recruiting firms have been tapped by the California Minority Counsel Program to pro...

Forum Column - Many attorneys who are parents of special needs children find that the prospect of coordinating services, arra...

Law-firm mergers nationwide were down slightly in the first half of 2006, according to new data from Hildebrandt International...

Billboards do not have a "right to be seen,' the state's high court unanimously ruled Monday. ...

LOS ANGELES - Carl "CJ" Johnson, the drug-dealing, hooker-killing, car-stealing hooligan in the video game "Grand Theft Auto: ...

LOS ANGELES - Kent B. Goss, a Los Angeles-based partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, is departing the firm to join Orri...

Wearing his cowboy boots and driving his pickup, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mike Camacho is learning the ropes in his ne...

LOS ANGELES - Whether he was musing over the latest revelations in the Suge Knight case, expounding on the in-fighting among W...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case closely watched across the country, a Bay Area public television station is challenging the Bush adm...

Forum Column - When Jeannette Popp's daughter was murdered, her whole world turned upside down. ...

LOS ANGELES - After losing several senior lawyers in the past year, San Francisco's Steefel, Levitt & Weiss is bouncing ba...

LOS ANGELES - Ronald Gastelum, a former president and chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern C...

LOS ANGELES - Gary Gans, former head of the entertainment litigation practice at Richards, Watson & Gershon, has joined Mi...

The former chair of Carroll, Burdick & McDonough's toxic-tort group lateraled to Gordon & Rees in San Francisco in Jun...

Focus Column - Because it has been so easy to plead and difficult to defend against, California's Unfair Competition Law has l...

Letter to the Editor - In response to my article "For Former ACLU Chief, July 4th Means Celebrating Fight Against Abuses," (Da...

Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced Friday that Mary Jo Graves, a specialist in DNA evidentiary issues, will be the new ch...

LOS ANGELES - Caldwalader Wickersham & Taft. Debevoise & Plimpton. Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. Shearman...

LOS ANGELES - Nine years, a few Mexican movies and something like $64.3 million later, attorney Barry Fisher still is tracking...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Presiding Judge George Hernandez is aiming to streamline operations in his civil courts by conv...

In a finding that could lead to a jurist's removal from the bench, a three-judge panel has agreed with state Commission on Jud...

SACRAMENTO - A coalition of crime victims, prison guards and taxpayers attacked the governor Monday, opening day of a special ...

Bank of the West appointed Vanessa Washington general counsel in San Francisco. Washington, who also will serve as executive v...

SAN FERNANDO - In the volatile arena of family law, Commissioner Alan H. Friedenthal has a knack of defusing tensions and soot...

When she's not at work, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Margaret L. Oldendorf spends most of her time with a horse nam...

EL CAJON - From the windows of his chambers, Superior Court Judge Eddie C. Sturgeon can look out over the city where he grew u...

SAN FRANCISCO - A firefight has broken out in the sleepy Sacramento suburb of Yolo County, where a handful of Hispanic residen...

Employment Column - Much has been said by the courts regarding an employer's obligation to engage in the interactive process t...