INDEPENDENCE - Inyo Superior Court Judge Brian J. Lamb presides over matters in a county that boasts some remarkable statistic...

LOS ANGELES - The University of West Los Angeles has appointed Cheryl Ward, a former top official of the Los Angeles city att...

LOS ANGELES - Armen Adzhemyan had an eventful first year at Boalt Hall. Adzhemyan spearheaded an effort to create a student co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge W. Scott Snowden, who led the way for Napa County to become the first to consolidate its municipal and ...

WASHINGTON - Moments after President Bush announced John G. Roberts Jr., a federal appeals-court judge and former clerk to Chi...

LOS ANGELES - Computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. will buy business-integration software provider SeeBeyond Technology Corp. ...

SAN DIEGO - Bringing an end to a scandal that soiled the city's squeaky-clean image, a federal jury Monday convicted San Diego...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors in San Francisco preparing for a capital murder trial are refusing to share their witness...

Forum Column - By Mitch Kamin and Becky Monroe - Think twice before deciding how much to tip the guy who dries your car at the...

Letter to the Editor - I read Jeffrey Lowe's opinion column, "Bill Allowing Pharmacist Approval for Morning-After Crosses a Le...

Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal Oldman - In the matter of Bernard v. Foley , 2005 DJDAR 7986, the 2nd District Court o...

LOS ANGELES - A client in Macau may be a few clicks away on a PDA, but you might not know whether they were pleased or pertur...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pamela Fulmer and Art Beeman have left Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, the third and fou...

LOS ANGELES - A state Court of Appeal has ordered a Compton judge to appear next month to explain why he refused to let a dep...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer has rejected a class action filed by the city's 1,222 retir...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Ron Del Pozzo confirmed Monday what legal observers have suspected since h...

SACRAMENTO - A California state senator on Monday proposed a constitutional amendment to scrap at-large judicial elections in...

LOS ANGELES - Litigators typically don't have a lot of room for bull. But Bill Urquhart and John Quinn of Quinn Emanuel Urquh...

SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento federal judge said Monday he was inclined to skirt the issue of whether the words "under God" in th...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Is muscular Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a musclehead for signing a lucrative deal with a publisher o...

LOS ANGELES - A former FBI agent who had a 20-year affair with an accused Chinese double agent was sentenced Monday afternoon ...

SAN FRANCISCO - During an adoption hearing in a Contra Costa County courtroom earlier this year, a 4-year-old boy named Bubba ...

INDUSTRIAL COSTA MESA - BKM Development purchased a 24,149-square-foot research-and-development building in the Redhill Pullm...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - In Root v. American Equity Specialty Insurance Co., 2005 Cal. App. LEXIS 10...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker picked up a seven-attorney group of intellectua...

LOS ANGELES - Vincent Herron and Michael Abelson didn't exactly leave the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins because ...

LOS ANGELES - DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary boosted its real estate finance practice significantly July 1 when it scooped up re...

LOS ANGELES - Intellectual property litigation partner Franklin Ubell jumped from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Co...

LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Pasadena-based court-reporting and interpreter company remained in county jail Friday on charges...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's decision to prosecute enemy combatants before military commissions received a new lease...