Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - A federal judge's order to disable a muckraking Web site represents an egregious and reaction...

Industry Watch - By Amity Bacon -Trial lawyers get a bad rap from politicians, from corporations and their insurance companies...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three years after a state study slammed the justice system's handling of domestic-abuse cases, a new report su...

SACRAMENTO - A commission studying the fairness of California's justice system has recommended increasing compensation for the...

Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage - Chris Hockett, a well-regarded Bingham McCutchen litigator, has jumped ship to head Davis P...

Rejecting defense lawyers' request for leniency, a Riverside County judge sentenced John Heath, 81, to 28 years in state priso...

Web Exclusive - The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Friday rejected a move to use some hastily handwritten updates to a contin...

Longtime San Francisco-based firm Heller Ehrman has lost 16 California partners and laid off 65 administrative staff in the la...

LOS ANGELES - A retired judge in the Inland Empire awarded $9.36 million Friday to a woman whose health insurance company canc...

Torrance Judge Mark S. Arnold attributes his smooth adaptation to his job to the wildly different earlier chapters of his life...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Industry Watch - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's la...

Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli

After 40 years at the county counsel's office, S. Robert Ambrose found a new niche as a Los Angeles County Juvenile Court comm...

Whittier Judge Mark G. Nelson employs a variety of strategies to reach the emotional defendants in his domestic-violence court...

A new 12-story, 36-courtroom courthouse in downtown San Bernardino is scheduled to be built and opened in five years, accordin...

LOS ANGELES -- On the same day juror selection began, a federal judge on Thursday pushed back the Feb. 27 start date for Antho...

SAN FRANCISCO - The parents of a climber crushed by a 600-ton rockfall at Yosemite National Park can proceed with their wrongf...

LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit filed Wednesday by Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo against one of the state's largest healt...

I do not believe that conscientious citizens will mind in the least being required to show identification before being allowed...

Focus Column - A recent state Supreme Court ruling determines whether shareholders can continue in a class action when a merge...

Just because a government agency creates a dangerous intersection doesn't mean it can automatically be held liable for any inj...

WASHINGTON - Citing the huge caseload in the Eastern District of California, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asked Thursday f...

SAN FRANCISCO - The scandal over Hewlett-Packard's boardroom leak investigation drew widespread attention to a practice known ...

Employment Column - By Robert W. Wood - The case of Blackwater in Iraq can serve as a model to employers confused about what d...

SAN JOSE - Cecily Bond, a retired Sacramento County Superior Court judge who now works as a neutral for JAMS, gets high marks ...

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Thursday rejected a San Francisco Bay Area restaurant association's e...

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

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has taken the unusual step of boosting a $38 million jury verdict awar...

Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford Law School professor who recently changed his academic focus from cyberlaw to political corrupti...