LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department reopened the public comment period for proposed regulation changes that would give the at...

LOS ANGELES - California cities have been moving quickly to install video-surveillance cameras on public streets and plazas wi...

Focus Column - By James R. Felton - A provision that used to penalize parties who defaulted on settlement payments is now bein...

Forum Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - Parties at arbitration who want to hang on to their awards must pay careful attention ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two months after he was last blasted for not putting enough minorities on the bench, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegge...

Ira Rothken has asked a federal judge to block an order that his client, the search engine TorrentSpy, to start logging inform...

In a substantial victory for patent defendants, a federal appeals court has thrown out a long-standing rule for proving willfu...

They told Orange County Commissioner Jim Waltz he was a mistake. He was not cut out for law school, they said. That was 31 ye...

Disbarments, Probations and Public Reprovals

With the help of her extended family, Los Angeles County Commissioner Lia Martin found her path to the bench. ...

Federal law pre-empts portions of a lawsuit intended to force changes in the operations of privately owned dams on the Klamath...

SANTA ANA - When federal prosecutors unveiled their sweeping indictment of 40 Aryan Brotherhood members and associates in 2002...

LOS ANGELES - A Nicaraguan man who was scheduled to testify Friday in a product-liability case against Dole Food Co. and Dow C...

Industry Watch - By Tim Hay - SAN FRANCISCO - Last week, the in-boxes of pretty much anyone connected to the legal industry be...

Forum Column - By J.R. Brenman - The excessive focus on stardom that accompanies judicial proceedings for celebrities like Ann...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kate Howard, chief lobbyist for the Administrative Office of the Courts, is leaving her post by early October....

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - LOS ANGELES - What does former "Magnum P.I." star Tom Selleck do when he realizes that the ...

Industry Watch - By D. Heimpel - LOS ANGELES - In a move that marks a concerted effort to expand its West Coast presence, Wash...

Industry Watch - By Jason Song - DLA Piper added two partners to its Silicon Valley office as the firm continues to upgrade it...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - The two white cranes in the foreground of Angela M. Lai's painting are Chin...

LOS ANGELES - Bankruptcy filings dropped 76 percent within the 9th Circuit and 70 percent nationally in 2006 compared to the p...

For the first time, California's district attorneys association has chosen a nondistrict attorney as its chief executive offic...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of women whose retirement benefits were cut because they took pregnan...

SAN FRANCISCO - Is domestic partnership enough? That's one of the central questions in the gay-marriage debate heating up at t...

SAN JOSE - Michael Byrd, the former chief financial officer at Brocade Communications Systems Inc., was charged with civil fra...

On The Move

Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - The California Legislature's decision to take over a construction project without proper...

Longtime Los Angeles prosecutor Cynthia A. Zuzga now works to keep drug offenders out of jail as comissioner in a Proposition...

New USC Law Dean Robert Rasmussen, who wrote one of the most widely cited papers in bankruptcy law, was also a celebrated prof...

Seven years ago, parole and immigration agents arrested a man who had violated his parole by re-entering the United States and...