LOS ANGELES - An African-American medical researcher has settled a decade-old racial discrimination claim against UCLA Medical...

SANTA ANA - In a ruling that expands mental health workers' legal duties, a state appeals court has ruled that therapists have...

SAN JOSE - The attorney representing Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser said Monday he is confident that h...

SAN FRANCISCO - A member of a Marin County lawyers group Monday disavowed the findings of a survey the organization commission...

SAN FRANCISCO - An undocumented Guatemalan immigrant who built her life around her children in Los Angeles should get another ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Angry federal prosecutors decided Monday to seek the death penalty against domestic arts tycoon Marth...

LOS ANGELES - Layoffs to close a $10 million budget gap at the state Department of Justice could fall disproportionately on th...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said Monday that Assemblyman Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, had agreed t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Desperate for new revenue, San Francisco is reaching for the pockets of law firm partners. The Board of Superv...

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp.'s aggressive trademark defense against a small San Diego startup appeared to backfire Monday, ...

LOS ANGELES - It's back to the drawing board for a $300 million busway under construction in the San Fernando Valley, after a ...

LOS ANGELES - Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, the American Medical Association, Mexico and an array of nations, child welfare...

Ceradyne Inc. announced July 1 that it will pay $136 million for ESK Ceramics, a Germany-based industrial technical ceramic ma...

The Rialto police chief's policy of favoring African-American police officers has resulted in a "mass exodus" of highly qualif...

San Jose-based networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. has announced plans to scoop up part of one company and the remaining 83 pe...

Jung Hwa Jung can't express her feelings about her husband of 15 years. She suffered severe brain damage a decade ago because ...

LOS ANGELES - Justice Norman L. Epstein had practiced only civil law when Gov. Jerry Brown appointed him to the bench in 1975....

An attorney who advertises in the alternative newspaper L.A. Weekly has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the publication, ch...

Jeffrey Lederman says he endured many sleepless night worrying about his friends and colleagues at East Palo Alto's Gray, Cary...

M. Manuel Fishman began his 22-year real estate career at big firms, first with San Francisco's Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro...

Sports aficionados glued to their radios and television screens for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can thank the behind-the-sc...

Washington, D.C.-based Piper Rudnick kicked off its European expansion efforts by attracting 16 attorneys from the affiliate P...

The owners of two health-related Web sites reached a confidential settlement last week in their long-running battle over domai...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips will acquire real estate litigation firm Berger & Norton on Sept....

Veteran litigator Theodore Olson rejoined former colleagues at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher last Monday after announcing his re...

An appeals court recently allowed two companies to pursue claims that a law firm tried to illegally stifle competition by fili...

Column - Adviser - By John C. Woolley - The first interview with your client is extremely important to your mediation success....

The Scene recently joined the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California for its 10th annual Law Luncheo...

Column - Closer - By Sharon J. Berman - "Its summer time, and the living is easy," as the song says. Even in California, summe...

Forum Column - By Marianne Baker Bolduc - Two weeks ago, the Reuters news agency carried a story about 50 mothers who chanted ...