A new state law aimed at combating identity theft may be more of a nuisance than a help to businesses and consumers and end up...

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has hired insurance lawyer James E. Fitzgerald as partner. Fitzgerald, who joined the firm i...

EBay Inc. is boosting its investment in an online auction company serving the Chinese market. San Jose-based eBay has agreed t...

It took half the year, but a technology company finally found its way to an initial public offering in 2003. FormFactor Inc. o...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By David Martinez - Health care providers participating in California's Medi-Cal program routinely h...

Forum Column - By Philip Graves - On June 2, the U.S. Supreme Court issued yet another in a recent string of decisions limitin...

Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - Former Gov. Frank Keating's description of the conduct of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Maho...

Forum Column - By Brian K. Landsberg - At first blush, the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings in the Michigan higher education affir...

SANTA ANA - Consistency counts, especially when you're disqualifying a judge during appeal. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...

SANTA ANA - The devil is usually in the details and, in this case, so was the scam. So ruled Orange County Superior Court Jud...

WASHINGTON - In an important victory for abortion providers, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let stand a federal appellate c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Altheimer & Gray, a 300-lawyer Chicago firm that had been aggressively building its San Francisco office, ...

WASHINGTON - In a case that will affect lawyers and other professionals, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider wheth...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge-to-the-stars Marilyn L. Hoffman has retired after 16 years on the bench. Hoffma...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Friday reversed a man's arson conviction, saying a Los Angeles Superior Court judge commi...

LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney William W. Hodgman got up Friday morning to gather what was left of his sexual-abuse ca...

OAKLAND - In-house counsel at the University of California believe the university should be exempt from lawsuits that bedevil...

SACRAMENTO - A man convicted twice of murdering a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl must either be tried a third time or rele...

SAN JOSE - After months of futile searching for a landlord willing to rent to a convicted child molester, state authorities a...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Duyen Nguyen - Getting fired from a job with a law firm has a way of stirring som...

Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could crush the last vestiges of leg...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By David Halberstadter - Earlier this month, the state Supreme Court issued its newest deci...

SAN FRANCISCO - Memorial services will be held today in Carlisle, Pa., for Morris L. Myers, a well-known lawyer and labor arbi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco law that helps women and racial minorities win public contracts is not sufficiently supported ...

LOS ANGELES - The Supreme Court's decision Thursday striking down prosecutions of long-ago sexual abuse could spell the end of...

LOS ANGELES - Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore delivered a demand for justice for the count...

WASHINGTON - On a day of high drama at the Supreme Court, the justices ended their 2002-03 term Thursday with a whimper, dismi...

POIPU, Hawaii - It's tough to have sympathy for federal judges seeking a 16.5 percent hike in their $150,000 a year salary dur...

WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist sure knows how to grab an audience by the throat so they'll listen to his ever...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors on Thursday were studying whether to drop charges against dozens of Catholic priests in Southern Cal...