Employment Column - By John Lattin - In June, medical marijuana went up in smoke. On June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the...

Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Bill Detamore - By any standard, a $1.55 billion lesson is expensive, even for Morgan Stanle...

LOS ANGELES - Southern California became the latest battleground this week in a nationwide fight over manganese, a mineral use...

LOS ANGELES - Insurers won a victory with a recent California Supreme Court opinion that found in favor of enforcing a binding...

SAN BERNARDINO - A veteran San Bernardino deputy district attorney who was fired following allegations that he leaked a confi...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of Southern California's most prominent environmental legal advocates, Gail Ruderman Feuer, was among a s...

LOS ANGELES - Public-interest lawyers suddenly have found new respect in Los Angeles City Hall. In his first month on the job,...

LOS ANGELES - Some might say it's fitting that Earl P. Willens' favorite song is Frank Sinatra's "My Way." The woolly, 70-year...

LOS ANGELES - The judges of the Orange Superior Court have elected three commissioners. Craig E. Arthur, Max DeLiema and Glenn...

LOS ANGELES - Sex is essential to marriage, but money is not, according to a recent appellate-court opinion. A woman cannot a...

WASHINGTON - Senators on the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee stressed Thursday their support for the Supreme C...

LOS ANGELES - Robert E. Nagle's job is all about the bottom line. As the county's litigation cost manager, Nagle is responsibl...

SAN FRANCISCO - The American Civil Liberties Union fired off a motion Thursday to set aside a Yolo County judge's order again...

SAN DIEGO - Saying the award was excessive, a San Diego judge has overturned a $6.85 million jury verdict in a sexual-harassme...

SACRAMENTO - Dealing a blow to California's powerful government employee unions, the state Supreme Court held Thursday that se...

SAN JOSE - A state appellate court on Thursday upheld a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the Oakland Raiders aga...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel ruled Wednesday that a fugitive extradition treaty between the United States and Hong ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Charles James, head of Chevron Corp.'s 300 lawyers, likes to reward a job well done with a savory meal, but h...

INDUSTRIAL HAWTHORNE - A partnership led Kearny Real Estate Co. and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund V purchased a 92-acre, 2.6...

Forum Column - By Rachel Dioso and Simon Cole - Since the wildly popular show "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation" first aired ...

Letter to the Editor - Although I come to praise staff writer Jason W. Armstrong's generally accurate story on my opposition t...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Catherine Valerio Barrad - A clear understanding of the standards of appellate review is the...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Picture a soldier in battle, hunched over his rifle, grenades exploding on all sides ...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Wednesday for longtime Los Angeles attorney Robert L. Dickson. Dickson, who gained nat...

NEWPORT BEACH - A memorial service will take place in August for retired Superior Court Judge Phillip A. Petty. Petty, a spor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Peter D. Lichtman, a star jurist in the Los Angeles Superior Court's complex litigation unit, got no hel...

LOS ANGELES - Though some have affectionately referred to his office as "dorm room-ish" and chaotic, don't let the mess in Co...

LOS ANGELES - The new National Hockey League labor deal has little in common with the collective agreement Major League Baseb...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed four new judges to the Los Angeles bench and one to the Placer County cou...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would consider whether the second-degree murder conviction i...