LOS ANGELES - The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that it would pursue an enforcement action against Los A...

LOS ANGELES - Two top Los Angeles attorneys will be honored Friday night at Loyola Law School's second annual Tribute to Champ...

FORUM COLUMN - In the spring of 2004, Tyler Chase Harper arrived at his San Diego-area school on two consecutive days wearing ...

FOCUS COLUMN - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently handed down a significant victory for religious freedom advocate...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge seemed poised Monday to rule that two teenagers may press forward with a civil suit against th...

LOS ANGELES - When lawyers for Cardinal Roger Mahony confirmed this month the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is pay...

WASHINGTON - The right to habeas corpus took center stage Monday as senators continued to poke holes in legislation that would...

LOS ANGELES - In a major blow to prosecutors in the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case, a federal jury in Los Angeles acquitte...

SAN FRANCISCO - Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox has appointed longtime San Francisco attorney Mich...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Fresno has refused to block key parts of an automobile industry challenge to California's g...

PALO ALTO - Hewlett-Packard on Friday introduced two lawyers hired to help navigate its spying scandal - a corporate specialis...

LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Landau is a female success story. She is a big-firm partner with a busy litigation practice, a wife, t...

SACRAMENTO - A six-year effort by the judiciary to get more judges to address the needs of the state's growing population has ...

FOCUS COLUMN - Automobile manufacturers are facing a new type of liability, in the form of government lawsuits seeking to forc...

The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether the Talent Agencies Act applies to personal manage...

SAN FRANCISCO - Misconduct by federal judges got a lot of attention last week from both Congress and the judiciary itself. ...

FORUM COLUMN - Conjure this: You're suddenly involved in a complicated and controversial legal case and one morning your secre...

SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie rotated in a new San Francisco office managing partner who will oversee the growth and recruiting...

FORUM COLUMN - Civil rights cases often raise historical questions. But, as Justice Anthony Kennedy observed, lawyers and judg...

LOS ANGELES - Hogan & Hartson has lured a high-profile litigator from Irell & Manella to take the reigns of its West C...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court will face a mountain of petitions that have piled up over the quiet summer months when the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters ordered to jail for refusing to name sources of secret grand jury testim...

LOS ANGELES - For the past several years, critics have lambasted a Justice Department policy that calls on companies under inv...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lethal injection, a three-drug cocktail which is the most comon method of capital punishment, goes on trial th...

The creator of Children's Chambers, Orange County Superior Court Judge Linda Miller presides over family law cases at the Lamo...

McDonough Holland & Allen added Wynne Furth as of-counsel to the firm's Oakland office. Furth, who joined the firm's publi...

SAN FRANCISCO - State Supreme Court Justice Marvin R. Baxter's fascination with cars dates to his childhood. ...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson's chambers are not the staid and removed preserve that norm or tradition m...

WASHINGTON - Los Angeles federal judge Manuel L. Real forcefully defended himself before Congress Thursday against a Republica...

LOS ANGELES - When Katherine J. Edwards was 14, she walked into a clothing store and asked for a job. They gave it to her. ...