SAN BERNARDINO - A Superior Court jury has ordered a Catholic nun and her Indiana order to pay a Redlands woman $3.2 million f...

Focus Column - By Elizabeth Lampert - Learning the art of promoting your legal work in the media can lead to a business windfa...

Forum Column - By Roberta Bennett and David Gamblin - It will take nothing short of gay marriage to create full equality for s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signaled Thursday to Republican legislators that they should not stall the state bu...

Focus Column - Virginia DeMarchi - Long-standing trends in when the holder of an infringed patent can obtain an injunction are...

SANTA ANA - A Nobel Prize-winning economist will join the Chapman University School of Law faculty in January, the school anno...

LOS ANGELES - It's hard to imagine Alan G. Saler has a penchant for candy. Despite casting a lean profile, Saler always keeps ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor said Thursday the criminal backdating case against former Brocade Communications Systems ...

Six years ago, Bel Air residents Ned and Marcia Goldstein thought they had a run-of-the-mill boundary dispute when neighbor Cy...

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - Law firms can't afford to overlook the morass of California's employment laws and ...

Three nonprofit advocacy groups are claiming the California Department of Social Services' policy requiring foster children to...

SACRAMENTO - Some of the $13.5 million the state got in the settlement of its pretexting suit against Hewlett-Packard will be ...

The legal landscape in Texas could be in for yet another big change, should merger talks between Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Pr...

A federal judge's decision Thursday striking down a local anti-immigrant law in Pennsylvania likely will have a ripple effect ...

The office of independent counsel - made famous a decade ago by President Clinton prosecutor-in-chief Kenneth Starr - could be...

Longtime death-row prisoner James Hardy might not be a killer, but he still deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison, ...

LOS ANGELES - A Pomona jury ordered a residential care facility to pay $12.5 million to three men who said they were sexually ...

A pair of new laws requiring hospitals to report errors by physicians and administrators could cause a spike in medical-malpra...

SANTA MONICA - WWCOT and Booker Gery Architects merged and as a result, Booker Gery's Modesto office will operate under the WW...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Department of Labor employee who investigated claims of workplace discrimination says she has found a...

Forum Column - Stacey D. Pacelli - For retaining associates, quality of life may prove to be more important than quantity of p...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed all claims against KPMG in a derivative-shareholder lawsuit against Vit...

LOS ANGELES - More than 3,000 Southern California attorneys are expected to pack the former site of the Warner Bros. Studios i...

Focus Column - Health Care Law - As health care professionals know all too well, health care is provided in the context of a c...

Focus Column - Stephen P. Robinson - Two recent auto-insurance cases demonstrate deeply flawed jurisprudence. ...

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the country's most influential civil rights advo...

RIVERSIDE - An Alameda County judge who presided over one of that county's most notorious capital murder cases and a Santa Bar...

Forum Column - Paul Kiesel - Apple's newest gadget is heavy on enticing features but light on the necessities for busy lawyers...

LOS ANGELES - A civil-court judge will not sign off on a settlement calling for a doctor who was found by a jury to be 55 perc...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has thrown several curve balls since Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito...