Despite protests from community activists and a state senator, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Inside the Board of Supervisors chamber, where the fire alarm buzzed from the body heat of too many onlookers...

SANTA ANA - Caltrans has awarded a $1.4 million settlement to the owner of an Orange County Motel 6 - an action coming after ...

SAN JOSE - After winning a federal patent infringement lawsuit, Intel Corp. turned the tables Tuesday and filed a malicious p...

Rasheda Daniel will be a senior at Inglewood High School this fall. A straight-A student, she feels she is not given the same...

IRVINE - Irvine-based investment bank Cruttenden Roth Inc. has filed a lawsuit against its founder and former president, cont...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston of the Baltimore Sun threw down the gauntlet to judges early at th...

Gerald Chaleff, a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and a longtime criminal defense lawyer, was unanimously elect...

SACRAMENTO - Nearly seven months into his tenure as governor, Democrat Gov. Gray Davis has repeatedly dodged the legal contro...

In a meticulous, sweeping opinion applying both California statutory law and the First Amendment, the California Supreme Cour...

MONTEREY - A panel of judges, academics and legal journalists, appearing at the annual 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Odd as it may sound to anyone who hasn't toured the Tenderloin recently, the gritty San Francisco neighborhoo...

By Douglas G. Carnahan In the humorless 1980s, the California Commission on Judicial Performance published in one of its annu...

Race to Judgment Preparation, a good reputation and community involvement are essential to the judicial appointment process B...

By Kim Quackenbush Lawyers' increased dependence on e-mail has changed the face of law firm communication (as well as expande...

By Peter S. Selvin Foreign litigants often view U.S. courts as an attractive venue for disputes against U.S. companies, espec...

The county of Los Angeles Claims Board recommended Monday that the Board of Supervisors pay $475,000 to the survivors of a wo...

OROVILLE - Anthony Melton got off easy. After spending 23 days in custody during his extradition from Missouri to Northern Ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has lost two of its most prominent corporate lawyers to Palo Alto-based Wilson...

PITTSBURG - Ever since he became a lawyer, Steven K. Austin was interested in shaping the lives of others. By becoming a judg...

An American Bar Association proposal to permit lawyers to practice in partnerships with nonlawyers may be dead, at least for ...

"Old Bull" Warren at Harvard was right when he said that one didn't need brains to be a lawyer, only a cast-iron bottom. Edwa...

By Arif Alikhan As I was growing up in the United States as a first-generation American, there were many cross-cultural issue...

^^Entertainment Law^^ TV Nation Recent Cases Give Reality-Based Shows Little Guidance These determinations often must be made...

^^Commercial Law^^ By Joel D. Covelman Both equipment-leasing companies and lessees need to be aware of lurking year-2000 def...

By James Cooper Over the past month, the international community has been struggling with the aftermath of Operation "Allied ...

By Richard J. Sideman and Steven M. Katz Without a specific exemption from the California Legislature and Congress, settlemen...

When financial services and insolvency lawyer Jason D. Schauer goes into his usual song-and-dance routine, people don't roll ...

By Leslie A. Gordon If you can't conceptualize just how big Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has become, consider these f...

By Stacy L. Cohen No one can say Marci Rubin isn't a well-rounded person. She left law school to be a waitress, then a ski bu...