SAN DIEGO - To help keep roadways clear for emergency crews battling destructive wildfires, court officials shut down the nat...

Focus Column Employment Law By Michael D. Singer Among the flurry of bills that Gov. Gray Davis signed into law on his way ou...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Stuart Kadison, a distinguished civil litigator, bar leader, law-school professor and huma...

SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty San Francisco police officers charged with beating two men last year will stand trial in t...

LOS ANGELES - The state Committee of Bar Examiners this weekend put off a decision on accrediting online law schools, saying ...

LOS ANGELES - The Senate on Monday confirmed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dale S. Fischer for a newly created federal jud...

OAKLAND - An Alameda County Superior Court investigation into allegations of bias against law-and-motion Judge James Richman ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In more than 25 years of practicing patent law, longtime law partners Michael Pollock and Michael Stallman ha...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Hart Ely, one of the most important constitutional scholars of the 20th century and dean of Stanford Law...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles landlord must pay $2.46 million to a 9-year-old boy who severely burned himself on a stovetop bur...

The annual flood of visitors to Yosemite National Park, or at least some of the most heavily used portions of it, could be re...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defendant Jess Rodrigues smelled a conflict of interest. His law firm, Cooley Godward of San Francisco, emplo...

LOS ANGELES - Opponents of Los Angeles' lap-dance ban collected nearly twice the number of signatures needed to force the Cit...

Forum Column By Fred Silberberg Mediation is quickly catching on in the family law community, and the courts are doing whateve...

By Liz Valsamis New York's Dewey Ballantine has elected Sanford Morhouse and Morton Pierce as co-chairmen of the firm, effect...

By Toni Vranjes Glacier Water Services Inc., an operator of water-vending machines, has acquired privately held Indianapolis ...

By Toni Vranjes Two Sunnyvale-based providers of network-security technology are joining forces. NetScreen Technologies Inc. ...

You know they're smart and powerful. And you know they're the most influential attorneys in the state.mmmm mBut you don't kno...

By Erik Cummins Robert Starzel's return to Holme Roberts & Owen is a homecoming of sorts. But it's been a while. After 27...

By Stefanie Knapp The American College of Trial Lawyers will induct a Canadian president for the first time in its 53-year hi...

By Toni Vranjes Creating a new media titan, NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment have agreed to merge in a mega-deal repor...

Outside, a revolution had occurred. An electorate made passionate by demolition democracy had cast its votes. The king was de...

By Stefanie Knapp Walk into any club and within a few minutes you'll hear someone ask the bartender for a Red Bull and vodka....

By John Ryan Better late than never may be a clichd sentiment, but it rings true to Arwa Farraj, the recent recipient of an $...

By Liz Valsamis Gordon & Rees has hired two partners in Los Angeles and one in Orange County. Shirley Deutsch and Robert ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Karl W. Jaeger, who has held nearly every job in a courtroom that can be held, retired Wedne...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda The 2nd District Court of Appeal is poised to answer the fundamental question of how to define mediation. ...

Wylie A. Aitken Name Partner, Aitken Aitken & Cohn, Santa Ana - A leading personal injury lawyer, Aitken represents the f...

By Tina Spee Described by colleagues as a "ball of fire," "tenacious" and "precise," Nedra Jenkins has ambitious plans in her...

Focus Column Criminal Law By Laurie L. Levenson A hot issue before the courts today is the scope of the "knock and announce" ...