Forum Column - By Gen LaGreca - Growing calls for greater government intervention in medicine get one thing wrong: There is no...

Having testified as a child in family court, Commissioner Walter D. Posey takes care to protect the young who appear before h...

One advocated for a student whose sexual orientation was revealed to her parents by her high-school principal; another helped ...

LOS ANGELES - The law firm that carries the name of legendary litigator Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. has added another famous name t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former employee in the human resources department at Brocade Communications Systems Inc. testified Monday th...

Forum Column - By Richard M. Coleman - Discovery started as a way to avoid legal ambushes; now, it's a strategic tool for lawy...

Forum Column - By Theodore M. Shaw - The Supreme Court's upcoming decision on two school-integration cases will test the just...

SANTA ANA - Just because a contract is written in blood doesn't mean it's a valid contract. ...

Forum Column - By Dan Shallman - Scooter Libby should consider cooperating with authorities if he wants to reduce his sentence...

Focus Column - By David Martinez and Vincent S. Loh - A new ruling protects against one-way interventions in class actions. ...

Placing new limits on the free-speech rights of students, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that school administrators...

LOS ANGELES - The day before his client went to trial on federal felony charges, an Alhambra lawyer received some bad news: Th...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the country's largest telecommunications companies has triggered a free-speech battle while defending c...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named 26 new trial-court judges to the bench, filling the first of the new positions created by...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Two deals last week show the emergence of perhaps the most overlooked yet obvious source of sta...

Web Exclusive - A state appellate court quoted Mahatma Gandhi in endorsing West Hollywood’s right to ban the declawing of anim...

industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - LOS ANGELES - National labor and employment firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & St...

Companies are using contractual clauses that force disputes into arbitration to bust up employment class actions. It's an effe...

SACRAMENTO - A thick, blue line of opposition awaits legislation headed for the California Assembly that would reopen discipli...

Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - Steven Liu, DLA Piper's newest partner in Beijing, has observed some separation a...

Focus Column - By Steve Cooley - The Los Angles County district attorney gives a lesson on bail law, for MCLE credit. ...

Forum Column - By Lisa Peterson - A new bill before the California State Senate would greatly restrict the rights of pet-owner...

Industry Watch - By Peter B. Matuszak - LOS ANGELES - Bingham McCutchen has acquired its second prominent Japanese law firm of...

Forum Column - By Nancy Neal Yeend and Robert Terris -You can keep mediation from turning into litigation by learning how to d...

Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - SAN FRANCISCO - Woo & Associates, the San Francisco boutique run by Jeffery P....

WASHINGTON - Joseph P. Russoniello is almost certain to be the White House's nominee to replace former San Francisco U.S. Atto...

A federal jury convicted prominent civil-rights attorney Stephen G. Yagman on 19 felony counts for hiding assets and gaming th...

LOS ANGELES - Top litigator Brian C. Lysaght, who helped found one of Los Angeles' prominent boutiques, has left his post at D...

Resignations, suspensions and more.

A defendant who has been arrested can post bail through a private surety bond arranged by a bail agent who usually charges 10 ...