Women's Professional Soccer will kick off its first games in April 2009, and fans will have attorney Vicki Veenker to thank. ...

LOS ANGELES - An arbitration panel retained by Kaiser Permanente has awarded the family of a 72-year-old patient $318,944 in a...

Web Exclusive - A statewide tort reform group has introduced legislation that would allow courts to strike a portion of a laws...

Forum Column - By John T. Hansen - The push for voter ID laws is merely a Republican effort to suppress minority voters likely...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal appellate Judge Jay S. Bybee has denied a plaintiffs' motion to recuse himself from hearing an excessi...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Katten Muchin Rosenman bulked up its securities litigation group with the hiring of Helen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just when it looked like Joseph Russoniello was about to be benched in the prosecution of home-run king Barry ...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Pittsburgh-based Reed Smith once again has expanded its West Coast practice, adding three l...

SAN FRANCISCO - An environmental group is trying to cut down U.S. Forest Service plans to salvage-log hundreds of trees in the...

Industry Watch - Amity Bacon - A federal appeals court halted the deportation of a Mexican immigrant after Baker & McKenzi...

SANTA ANA - The federal prosecutors pursuing Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona took pains to avoid legal pitfalls in the summe...

Industry Watch - By Pat Broderick - Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo opened a shop in San Diego 18 months ago, ju...

Forum Column - By William Sheffield - Litigators are among the most noble and hard-working members of the legal profession. ...

Focus Column - By Philip Bush - The SEC's amendment to the 'best-price' rule has made an impact on mergers and acquisitions. ...

LOS ANGELES - In recent weeks, two lawsuits have been filed against KB Home and Countrywide Financial Corp., accusing the comp...

Death Row Records' lawyer David Kenner is the last man standing in a series of lawsuits aimed at a posse of gangsta rappers an...

LOS ANGELES - A state-court judge in North Carolina has ordered harsh sanctions against San Diego's Robbins Umeda & Fink, ...

LOS ANGELES - In the first glimpse of their strategy for the wiretapping conspiracy trial against notorious sleuth Anthony Pel...

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 l...

Felony preliminary hearings are serious business to Judge Cynthia L. Ulfig, who’s known as a no-nonsense jurist with a knack f...

Whether balancing rights in the courtroom or budgets for the Superior Court, San Diego Judge Kenneth So avoids the minefields....

Both sides in the case of Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona recently made moves displaying their clever legal strategy. ...

In Chambers - SAN DIEGO - Judge Christine V. Pate has retired, ending a 20-year career with the Superior Court. ...

WASHINGTON - Democrats gave a cool reception Thursday to a Justice Department suggestion that Congress take action on the pote...

SACRAMENTO - Sen. Darrell Steinberg, a former labor lawyer who headed the Assembly Judiciary Committee, Thursday was named the...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. lawmakers wasted no time jumping into the fray as the saga over Microsoft Corp.'s proposed $44.6 billion ...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors moved late Wednesday to disqualify one of the city's premier litigators from representing he...

SAN DIEGO - Four New York teens, on a summer trek to San Diego, decided to spend a balmy afternoon in Mission Bay boating. How...

LOS ANGELES - An October incident in which 33 African-American students were searched and detained by sheriff's deputies has p...