FRESNO - Under pressure from the U.S. Supreme Court, a state appellate panel appears likely to slash a $290 million judgment a...

INDIO - Riverside County judges have selected family law facilitator Dale R. Wells as a new Superior Court commissioner. ...

LOS ANGELES - Looking to continue its East Coast expansion, Irvine-based JAMS has merged with Washington, D.C.'s ADR Associate...

SACRAMENTO - Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Paul Dobson, a Republican and veteran deputy attorney general, as ...

Column By Garry Abrams — Early this year, a federal judge in Florida strongly questioned the federal government's choice of Lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - While senators held a 40-hour marathon debate last week on four stalled Republican judicial appointments, the ...

LOS ANGELES - Over objections from the Los Angeles Archdiocese, a state appeals court has ordered that oral arguments be open ...

Losing an appeal is bad enough. But Los Angeles appellate-court justices burned R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and its counsel with...

Carlsbad Corporate Center, 5818 and 5830 El Camino Real, Carlsbad CARLSBAD - In a $15.3 million transaction, two industrial b...

Forum Column - By Steven Ipsen - Nominees for federal judgeships endure a painstakingly thorough investigation into every face...

Forum Column By Hirbod Rashidi One of the most memorable moments of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' confirmation ...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Conventional wisdom is that one should give two weeks' notice before leaving a jo...

Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Bruce Hurwitz - A recent federal court decision exposes directors and officers of private co...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco law enforcers sent John Tennison and Antoine Goff to prison for 13 years for a murder the distri...

SAN DIEGO - A Marine veteran of Vietnam who set his law practice aside to sit as a temporary judge in juvenile court became a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - If a defendant is acquitted - even erroneously - that still counts as an acquittal and the defendant cannot be...

SAN BERNARDINO - A state appellate panel ruled Thursday that a San Bernardino County deputy public defender was protected by t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saying the government took too long to bring the defendant to trial, to...

SAN JOSE - An appellate court upheld Thursday the $775,000 libel judgment against two former Varian Associates research scient...

WASHINGTON - In the wee hours of Thursday morning, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., did his best Jerry Seinfeld impersonation in r...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate America will ask a Fresno appellate court today to gut the record-setting punitive damage award that...

FULLERTON - In an transaction valued at $1 million, Layton-Belling & Associates leased the final space in its 280,000-squ...

LOS ANGELES - Ending weeks of speculation in the legal community, Larry Feldman said Wednesday that he is joining the Century ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Employment lawyers don't like to admit any deficiency in evaluating...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - An Oct. 23 Human Rights Watch report concludes that a significant part of America's 2.1 mil...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Barrett K. Green - "No definite standard or method of calculation is prescribed by law by w...

SAN FRANCISCO - With only five days left in office, Gov. Gray Davis made a slew of last-minute appointments, naming legal app...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal regulators and two environmental groups filed an agreement Wednesday with U.S. District Judge Claudia...

SAN DIEGO - Two San Diego strip clubs, where livings are made by baring all, claim that a competitor prominently named in the ...

SACRAMENTO - A contractual clause that prohibited a managed-care provider from recovering damages against the state Departmen...