LOS ANGELES -A Cheesecake Factory shareholder has filed a lawsuit alleging that directors and executive officers at the restau...

FOCUS COLUMN - By William F. Sullivan and Morgan J. Miller - The successive waves of companies facing a barrage of option-rela...

SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. will soon reunite with several mentors and colleagues he left a...

A Santa Barbara County prosecutor was removed from a rape case Thursday because she wrote a novel that bore a strikingly simil...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told a federal judge Thursday that the governor knows he needs help re...

SAN FRANCISCO - Only months ago, the California Judges Association appeared on the brink of mutiny over whether to support man...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge blamed slow-moving federal prosecutors Thursday for leaving him no option but to release the w...

LOS ANGELES - When immigration agents showed up at Raymond Gerald Soeoth's San Gabriel home early one morning in 2004, the Ind...

DISBARMENTS

SACRAMENTO - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer charged five people Wednesday, including former Hewlett-Packard chairwom...

FORUM COLUMN - By Michael Heimbold and Dylan Ruga - For clothing designers, H.R. 5055 is the best thing to happen to the Ameri...

SAN FRANCISCO - As law firms compete at an ever-higher level for business, so too must they meet the challenges of attracting ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Eugene E. Elder - Earlier this month, the trade association that represents the medical device industry, Adv...

RIVERSIDE - Robert G. Spitzer, a Riverside County judge under fire for allegedly backdating several court orders to make them ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Ellen Kreitzberg - For a week in September, a federal courtroom in San Jose was filled with talk of death. I...

A Butte County real estate lawyer elected to a Superior Court judgeship in June got a boost into her new job Wednesday when Go...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Areva D. Martin - As the dust settles, families and pundits alike are left shaking their heads as Mayor Anto...

SAN FRANCISCO - If Sheldon Sloan had his way, attorneys would be killing each other with kindness, rather than resorting to di...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court grappled with a high-stakes patent case Wednesday to decide whether a company that pays ro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years from the day California voters struck down government affirmative action programs, a conservative pu...

SAN JOSE - Apple Computer's former chief financial officer resigned from the company's board of directors Wednesday after a sp...

New Immigration Judges - Lori R. Bass, Alison E. Daw, A. Ashley Tabaddor and Frank M. Travieso have been sworn in as immigrati...

LOS ANGELES - Syd Whalley, executive director of the Western Center on Law and Poverty, was out of town when an attorney from ...

The number of Vioxx liability cases rose about 50 percent nationwide over the past three months as a key filing deadline passe...

LOS ANGELES - Three years after passing the bar, women lawyers make an average of $14,000 less than their male counterparts pe...

Whether at the helm of his 46-foot sailboat or presiding over a high-profile murder trial, Riverside County Superior Court Jud...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Perry Viscounty and Monica Awadalla - Today, young teenagers, college junkies and business professionals ali...

FORUM COLUMN - By Grant Kaiser - When judges request that counsel not speak to the press, as Judge Eldon Fallon did before the...

LOS ANGELES - Hewlett-Packard has appointed Charles N. Charnas to oversee the computer manufacturers' giant legal department o...

WASHINGTON - In its first full day of action after a three-month summer break, the U.S. Supreme Court took up a California mur...