Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - As fires continue to rage throughout Southern California, this comprehensive overview of ho...

SANTA ANA - Southern California law firm Irell & Manella is caught in the crossfire between one of the world's richest men...

How do top rainmakers turn adversity into opportunity? Do you have be overseas to develop and maintain business there? Get the...

LOS ANGELES - After five years of heavy pretrial litigation, the plaintiffs' lawyer in the JDSU securities class action made a...

LOS ANGELES - James Doroshow, a patent litigator formerly with Baker Hostetler who announced two weeks ago that he was joining...

Forum Column - By Richard Brent Reed - A lawsuit by the city of Riverside that prevented a challenge to local eminent-domain p...

Focus Column - By Cecily T. Talbert and Joshua Safran - A new ruling from the California Court of Appeal is making it easier ...

Forum Column - By Gerald F. Uelmen - The governor's decision to reject a trio of bills intended to cut down on wrongful incarc...

SAN DIEGO - San Diego County's trial courts will remain closed to the public until Monday, officials said, because sheriff's d...

If the Bush administration has its way, California officials soon will find themselves in front of the U.S. Supreme Court to d...

A veteran antitrust attorney could transform the cable industry with a federal class action that strikes at the very way it do...

WASHINGTON - A Democratic congresswoman from Los Angeles was forced to make a politically embarrassing retraction Tuesday afte...

Gay Conroy today finds herself serving as a commissioner on the Ventura County bench with an abundance of professional and lif...

The California Legislature responded to Cunningham v. California (2007) 127 S.Ct. 856, by providing that, when a "statu...

Forum Column - By Brian Cabrera and Victor Schachter - A handful of simple principles can reap huge rewards in working relatio...

Forum Column - By Fabian Nuñez - It's time for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to follow the Legislature's wishes and make more-div...

LOS ANGELES - A top federal immigration official misled Congress when she testified that a Mexican immigrant who died of compl...

Focus Column - By Alex Ricciardulli - The United States Supreme Court's ruling in Cunningham v. California changed comm...

San Diego County’s trial courts, district attorney's office and public defender’s office were expected to remain closed today ...

LOS ANGELES - Deputy district attorneys in Los Angeles County have cleared a major hurdle in their efforts to unionize for the...

LOS ANGELES - In the wake of a series of scandals including the death of a Mexican man with AIDS, allegations of forced druggi...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to file suit in Washington, D.C., against the Environmental Protection Agen...

Federal judges, including justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, are under no obligation to publicly explain their decisions to r...

Angela Padilla, a partner at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, is lead attorney in a case against a legal aid organiza...

SANTA ANA - Ninety percent of the newspaper industry considers those kids on bikes and men in old cars who throw the paper on ...

LOS ANGELES - An Army specialist filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking discharge from the military as a conscientious objecto...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors in Contra Costa County are threatening to strike in November over a contract impasse. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Berkeley City Attorney Manuela Albuquerque is calling it quits after 26 years of fighting progressive battles ...

Forum Column - By Kara Gotsch - The Supreme Court will weigh in soon on whether discrepancies in sentencing for possession of ...

Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - A case coming before the Court of Appeal has the potential to drastically reshape how dama...