WASHINGTON - Congress looks increasingly likely to take action to prevent federal prosecutors from requesting attorney-client-...

WASHINGTON - In a unanimous reversal of California's highest court, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that car passengers ha...

Now in his 20th year on the 5th District Court of Appeal in Fresno, Presiding Justice James Ardaiz has spent the last couple o...

Superior Court Judge Donal B. Donnelly's dreams of the foreign service became the reality of judicial service in isolated Im...

No one ever said saving the Earth would be simple. Just witness the tussle over a plan to expand a Northern California refiner...

Forum Column - By James Ham - Lawyers who want to accept credit cards face a tangled web of regulations. ...

Robert L. Ivey, a Holland & Knight lawyer, handled the asylum case of a surgeon in Iraq who served American forces as a tr...

RIVERSIDE - To help reduce Riverside County's backlog of criminal cases, state Chief Justice Ronald George said Friday that he...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge granted a government request to postpone the deadline for dismissing charges against defendants ...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - Soon after moving to Los Angeles, Petra Korn realized the area, home to numer...

Industry Watch - By Peter B. Matuszak - Not many lawyers can lay claim to negotiating both the big deals of the late-1990s tec...

Focus Column - By Gary Shapiro - A new Supreme Court ruling has important implications for the enforcement of American patents...

Forum Column - By Sylvia A. Law - Judicial holdings that pregnancy has nothing to do with gender have consequences that are an...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - Friends 30 years out of law school, Thomas M. Gosselin and Nancy J. Geenen again have the o...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Stoel Rives has set an ambitious goal of quadrupling the size of its capita...

Industry Watch - By Peter B. Matuszak - LOS ANGELES - Anticipating a demand for legal advice on new, stricter environmental ru...

LOS ANGELES - A former attorney was convicted Friday of embezzling $150,000 from the trust of an elderly woman who once served...

The case of eight former black-power activists accused of killing a San Francisco police officer in 1971 is headed back to cou...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - LOS ANGELES - Anticipating the end of the private equity boom, Steptoe & Johnson tapp...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors may have some explaining to do about why they nearly let a San Francisco pediatrician who had sex ...

On the Move

Disbarments, Suspensions and more.

Literature was Esteban Hernandez's first choice, and the San Diego judge might have become a professor had he not found the la...

David Mazurek had intended a career in football, but found a professional niche prosecuting crimes. Now he's making calls from...

Former legislator Ross Johnson has headed the Fair Political Practices Commission for only three months, but he already has ru...

A San Diego jury foreman who hid his status as a lawyer and blogged about ongoing jury deliberations committed misconduct that...

In one of the state's largest discrimination verdicts of the year, a Los Angeles jury has awarded $3.8 million to a city fire ...

LOS ANGELES - Despite a federal judge's ruling to the contrary, the dean of Yale Law School said Thursday that he thinks the j...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sensational Bay Area murder trial that tested a defense strategy called "gay panic" is headed for a replay o...

They call him "The Closer." Robert J. Kaplan, a mediator at Judicate West, earned the reputation because of his determination ...