LOS ANGELES - Arnold & Porter beefed up its Asia practice with the acquisition of partner Thomas McLain, who joined the fi...

SACRAMENTO - The state's top prosecutor may be stretching the limits of the criminal statutes he plans to use to prosecute tho...

LOS ANGELES - In a move that could further complicate his relationship with other district attorneys across the state, Steve C...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Cardinal Roger Mahony and alleged victims of priest sexual abuse would like a former California Supr...

In a rare about-face, the chief judge of the highest court in the West now says U.S. Marshals can shackle pretrial defendants ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Visa International Services Association, a global purchase-facilitating company, has announced the changing of...

LOS ANGELES - A 48-year-old grocery store clerk has become the first individual indicted in connection with Ralphs Grocery Co....

Last year, a Sacramento County judge spared a 14-year-old girl the shame of testifying in open court about being molested by h...

Commissioner Douglas G. Carnahan started out as an engineer, but followed his love of reading, writing and the law to the Los ...

Ventura County Superior Court Judge Tari Lynn Cody takes her job presiding over a juvenile dependency court in Oxnard very se...

Paul Schmidhauser has joined Rutan & Tucker's Orange County office as senior counsel. Schmidhauser, who joined the firm's ...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Joel Wallenstein has seen enough in his courtroom and his favorite movies, to b...

EMPLOYMENT-- By now, most employment lawyers have heard the drumbeat of optimism resulting from the Aug. 22, 2006, decision of...

FORUM--In asserting that "discretion is not whim," and to ensure that the exercise of discretion harmonizes with the "basic pr...

SAN JOSE - Even after doing it for years, Darrel W. Lewis still gets a lot of satisfaction out of settling legal disputes, an ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Among the megafirms that push and pull to be atop today's legal landscape, a shingle in China is perhaps the m...

FOCUS-- It is not every day that an appellate court strikes down on constitutional grounds one of Congress' laws that has been...

How did a defense attorney screw up his client's capital murder case 20 years ago? ...

FORUM-- Many law schools across the country have experienced considerable growth in their LL.M. programs. ...

WASHINGTON - The new-look U.S. Supreme Court is making its proceedings more transparent and accessible to the public. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County judge seemed unwilling Thursday to dismiss a challenge to a new law that toughens the provis...

SAN FRANCISCO - Voter rights activists lost their bid to persuade a San Francisco judge Thursday to halt the use of electronic...

SANTA ANA - Jurors considering whether to impose the death penalty against two kingpins of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang r...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's efforts to reduce automobile tailpipe exhaust associated with global warming heads for a courtroo...

With Hewlett-Packard facing investigations by two state attorney generals, federal prosecutors in San Francisco, two other fed...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's second-largest river will flow freely with salmon once more under an historic agreement announced...

SAN DIEGO - Hours before the CBS TV show "Rock Star: Supernova" was scheduled to hold its season finale Wednesday night, a fed...

Focus Column--In recent weeks, a multitude of class actions have been filed alleging that retailers and others violated the So...

The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether outsourcing of government contracts can be limited...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state judges' college offers a wide variety of education courses, but falls short when it comes to trackin...