LOS ANGELES - Entertainment lawyers have all the fun. The Cannes Film Festival, which runs this year through May 26 in the pos...

SAN JOSE - Katherine Lucero, the first Latina on the Santa Clara Superior Court bench, is used to blazing trails. The Woodland...

SANTA ANA - For the third time in two years, the case of a grandfather accused of shooting a teen-ager in the head over a stol...

SACRAMENTO - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley on Tuesday accused the Los Angeles police and sheriff's departments of...

Focus Column - By John W. Brooks and Eli W. Mansour - For years, businesses large and small have waged "the battle of the form...

Forum Column - By Richard McKee - Here's the question of the day: How can a government of, by and for the people exist if the ...

LOS ANGELES - Despite reports that Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison has "a KGB-type atmosphere" and management has engaged in a...

SANTA ROSA - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Laurence K. Sawyer has been known to hammer attorneys into using at least one ...

LOS ANGELES - Saying the court has the right to make its own local rules, a Superior Court judge on Monday rejected a challeng...

SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly passed three bills Monday aimed at protecting consumers in alternative dispute resolution proc...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has publicly reprimanded the chief assistant city attorney in charge of the Rampart corruption p...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - Moral relativism teaches that absolute right and wrong do not exist, while multiculturali...

Forum Column - By Karen Nobumoto - First-year board member Matthew E. Cavanaugh's column, "Dumping Dues Dollars Into The Toile...

SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles County is not liable for failing to take steps to prevent a fatal shooting inside the central civi...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Monday allowed actor Robert Blake to keep his private investigator, a former ...

Column by Garry Abrams - The lawyers involved in the now-infamous memos about Enron's schemes to profit from California's ener...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the so-called Megan's laws adopted by all 50 states requir...

LOS ANGELES - In an unprecedented hearing, five Los Angeles Superior Court judges and more than 100 lawyers met Monday morning...

LOS ANGELES - A culture of fear has spread throughout San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison following management's us...

SAN FRANCISCO - Since Napster came into being, it seems Hollywood has churned out more high-profile copyright suits than block...

Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - On May 6, the California Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision clarifying the standar...

LOS ANGELES - Napster Inc. general counsel Jonathan Schwartz and a slew of other executives have returned to the company now t...

LOS ANGELES - Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Rev. Michael Stephen Baker engaged in a criminal c...

Dicta Column - By Edwin V. Woodsome Jr. and David G. Meyer - Among lawyers and judges, one can find different views about the ...

Dicta Column - By The Rodent - Most lawyers seem to have the same goal in life - to not be lawyers. This is a curious thing, e...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a federal appellate opinion that allowed a mixed-race couple to s...

Bonne Bridges Mueller O'Keefe & Nichols has selected Kippy Wroten to lead the elder law group, a once obscure area of law ...

Cadence Design Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Simplex Solutions Inc. The stock deal, announced April 24, is worth $300 mil...

DuPont peddles its legal model as "a radical redefining of the entire practice of corporate law," but it was conceived as a wa...

Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish has more than doubled its office space in Ventura County to accommodate a t...