LOS ANGELES - Attorney John Stoner is bringing his corporate and securities practice to Manatt Phelps & Phillips' young Or...

LOS ANGELES - Services took place Thursday for a veteran Orange County civil litigator who was wooed into a law career by one ...

LOS ANGELES - Chicago-based 460-lawyer Katten Muchin Zavis confirmed Thursday that it is in merger talks with Rosenman & C...

Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Jill C. Teraoka and Shiraz D. Tangri - With the advent of environmental restrictions, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for plaintiffs to win damages for eavesdropping in a r...

SANTA ANA - A Los Angeles judge has been assigned to decide whether Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline, who faces...

SAN FRANCISO - Perceptions of cronyism within the Marin County family law bench and bar are the result of the small number of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Banks cannot take money from customers' direct deposit of Social Security and disability benefits to cover ove...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wading into a much-debated area of employment law, a San Francisco judge finalized an order Thursday asserting...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - What could have driven a 14-year-old boy to take a high-velocity deer rifle and shoot his mother and sister...

Dicta Column - By Gloria Cardenas Conn - Advance research on a judge can have a big impact on your case, such as drastically i...

Employment Column - By Luan J. McElroy - Once you have made the decision to conduct a job search, you must next decide how to ...

Dicta Column - By David A. Brickner - Here is a recipe for increasing your effectiveness in oral argument before the court by ...

LOS ANGELES - If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it make any noise? Similarly, if county supervisors take ...

LOS ANGELES - Ralph Cormany, a founding partner of Ventura County's largest law firm, Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton, an...

LOS ANGELES - The Board of Education has voted to complete the $154 million Belmont Learning Complex in downtown Los Angeles. ...

Column by Garry Abrams - When I was a kid, I lived in a part of the country that the Strategic Air Command thought was perfect...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Judge Ronald Kline may face some tough legal obstacles in his request to withdraw his name from a ru...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors continued to attack Marjorie Knoller's credibility Wednesday, underscoring that her statements on a ...

Focus Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Several employees of Countrywide Securities Corp. have challenged their employer's e...

SAN FRANCISCO - The most compelling scene in "Presumed Guilty," a new documentary about San Francisco public defenders, is a q...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former law student with no criminal history, who has served half of a 32-year murder sentence, won reversal ...

LOS ANGELES - Three African-American employees of Lockheed Martin in Palmdale have filed a racial discrimination suit against ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit accusing Bank of China managers of embezzling $73 million will remain in San Francisco courts, a jud...

SAN FRANCISCO - A new plan to slow the frenzied annual rush by federal judges to hire the best and brightest law clerks may en...

LOS ANGELES - Public Counsel Law Center, the nation's largest public interest law firm, has named Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn &a...

SANTA BARBARA - For the second time this year, a judge has set aside a capital murder indictment because women are underrepres...

WASHINGTON - The Judicial Conference reversed itself Wednesday by allowing criminal court records in some courts to be posted ...

LOS ANGELES - In the 1960s, Arthur Lee couldn't have gone out in public without people gawking at him - his signature look bei...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Reichmarshall Hermann Goering of the Third Reich once said: "It is always a simple matter to...