Focus Column - By Michael C. McMahon - New legislation allows judges more discretion to grant or deny petitions for expungemen...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is engaged in a systemic violation of its duty to provide veterans with timely and app...

Web Exclusive - By Rebecca U. Cho - Bruce S. Ross, a veteran litigator who represents the estate of late celebrity Anna Nicole...

Sweeping patent reform legislation may have stalled in Congress, but lawmakers have pressed ahead in recent days with the remn...

Clayton Brennan's election to the bench in 2006 illustrates how far the onetime newcomer has come in adapting to Mendocino Cou...

The city of Half Moon Bay asked the Legislature Wednesday to rescue it from an $18 million screw-up by granting it a special e...

A bogus attorney convicted of practicing law after stealing the identity of a U.S. Army lawyer for the second time in a decade...

Southern California is poised to generate a whole new area of intellectual properties - spurred by stem-cell research and pers...

Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott's Los Angeles office has added two associates. See our roundup of comings and goings at th...

In downtown Los Angeles, one long-time druggist laments that his ability to help shut-in seniors will be hampered. ...

Anthony Pellicano orchestrated a corrupt enterprise disguised as a legitimate private detective agency that broke the law to g...

A $6.9 billion plan by a court-appointed receiver to raise medical care in California's prisons to constitutional standards me...

The California Assembly's Judiciary Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would make drug companies solely responsible for wa...

The federal government's long-running stock options backdating investigation of Pixar Animation Studios, the other Steve Jobs-...

British-based Clyde & Co. has lured 10 Duane Morris attorneys to open a San Francisco office that will help bolster the la...

Focus Column - By Paul D. Fogel and Dennis Peter Maio - The 9th Circuit may need to get involved to clarify a court case that ...

Forum Column - By Victoria Pynchon - In a perfect world, our social evolution would keep pace with our technological progress,...

A decision to protect the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could set into motion the first major test of how a fede...

In an unusual move, the U.S. government has admitted its negligence caused the death of a detained Salvadoran immigrant, who w...

U.S. District Court Judge Christina A. Snyder of Los Angeles went too far in trying to manage sprawling national class action ...

Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Christopher Wilson has taken lunch breaks walking through the bleaker side of Eureka, wit...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Homeowner Julie Webb, left, is spending about 93 percent of her net annual income of $77,000 just to make the almost $4,000 mo...

Several disability rights advocates were angry Monday after a legislative committee approved of a measure supported by busines...

Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - California courts have recognized that in addition to eliminating actual bias, our Const...

Michael J. Lawson, 1950-2008, a respected commercial litigator and partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, died Friday of kidne...

One of Anthony Pellicano's co-defendants failed to get the mistrial he was seeking Monday, but a federal judge did agree to el...

Jules D. Barnett, 1916-2008, a longtime fixture in the local legal community as a Los Angeles County Superior Court commission...

In the months leading up to the launch of a new Web site that allows people to publicize their grievances and then sit back an...

The Bush administration has sent a strong signal to California that the federal government is not backing down in its struggle...