Song Column - By Jason Song - What do Entrisphere, Netli Inc. and Archivas Inc. have in common? ...

LOS ANGELES - Former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald C. Kline was sentenced to 27 months in prison Tuesday, more tha...

Forum Column - What happens when the chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court sues a small newspaper for defamation in that...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an attempt to recover swiftly from the unexpected departure two weeks ago of its skipper of seven years, No...

SAN FRANCISCO - The life and career of one of California's most prominent legal scholars is summed up in Wikipedia in two sent...

LOS ANGELES - Doug Lichtman, the University of Chicago law professor known for trying to forge consensus between media compani...

LOS ANGELES -His friends call him Judge Hollywood. Newspapers have chronicled his work as a Nazi hunter. ...

WASHINGTON - Handing a partial victory to the business community, a divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside a $79.5 &n...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Richard M. Goul is known for emphasizing the consideration he expects attorneys to dis...

Letter to the Editor - Timothy R. Lickness -The headline for your article by Eliot G. Disner immediately got my attention ("Ca...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Dale E. Bonner has been appointed secretary of the state Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. ...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's San Francisco office has added experienced employment litigator Jennifer G. Redmond ...

Some law-firm expansions are exotic; others, not so much. Foley & Lardner, which recently opened a Shanghai office, is add...

A group of retired professional football players, including Hall of Fame defensive back Herb Adderley and All-Pro defensive ba...

LOS ANGELES - The Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case has cast a long public shadow across Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, W...

SAN FRANCISCO - In deciding how to charge a juvenile offender for possession of three different kinds of bullets, a Los Angele...

LOS ANGELES - In last week's landmark death-penalty case, a federal jury sentenced two men to die for engineering a gruesome k...

Sacrifice by his migrant-farmworker parents helped Adolfo M. Corona ascend to the Fresno County Superior Court bench. ...

A high-rise building in a commercial area north of downtown San Diego poses a hazard to planes flying into a nearby airfield, ...

LOS ANGELES - As public officials celebrated approval of the massive $2 billion Grand Avenue Project downtown last week, court...

Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - One of the hardest questions in divorce proceedings is valuing a commu...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charlene P. Mitchell wants her courtroom to be a "place where people feel w...

On the Move

SAN DIEGO - The Tilt-Up Concrete Association honored Architects | Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker, a San Diego architectural d...

WASHINGTON - The unemployment lines grew longer last week, in part because of bad weather in the Midwest and Northeast, the go...

SAN DIEGO - The Carlsbad-based Golf & Resort Properties Group at CB Richard Ellis completed a record year in 2006, closing...

Prison overcrowding has reached a crisis point in California, and judges have to decide whether to allow inmates to be transfe...

Focus Column - By Shane Byrne and Jason Francl - Investments in developing markets abroad are attractive, but there is a lot t...

Forum Column - By Angelo A. Paparelli - The Bush administration has a lot on its plate, but it shouldn't lose sight of the opp...

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday named interim replacements for U.S. attorneys in San Francisco and San Diego, who were...