SAN FRANCISCO - A pediatrician convicted of felony sex with a child has been able to practice medicine for nearly two years af...

LOS ANGELES - A federal district judge's literal reading of copyright law has drawn academics and industry leaders into the de...

LOS ANGELES - James A. Bascue, a former presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Courts, has retired after 37 years ...

Forum Column - By Horace Cooper - The men who dominated Anna Nicole Smith's life are trying to safeguard her money, not her da...

Forum Column - By Maya Harris - The executive director of the ACLU of Northern California explains the organization's lawsuit ...

Focus Column - By Kevin Martin and Jason Riddick - A new Justice Department guideline may change the way that corporations han...

When Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced his support of the Safer Cities initiative last year, he said increased law enforcem...

Senegalese immigrant Amadou Diouf, who says he was forcibly drugged for deportation by immigration authorities, is one of two ...

LOS ANGELES - Otis Howard was smoking a cigarette outside a Skid Row mission in December when he was handcuffed, searched and ...

Web Exclusive - A patent by a research office has won a rare permanent injunction. ...

The former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. backdated employee stock-options grants, his lawyer argued Monday in ope...

Victor Hwang was a young attorney in Irell & Manella's Los Angeles office seven years ago when he decided to quit to take ...

Focus Column - By Phillip A. Rafferty - A new California Supreme Court ruling fundamentally alters the standards for second-de...

Forum Column - By K.C. Victor - 10 tips will help lawyers seeking more clients. ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the federal law governing employee-benefit plans allows an...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - How appropriate that a company called Limelight Networks Inc. underwent a lucrative initial pub...

SAN FRANCISCO - If all goes as planned, minority summer associates just might leave their hearts in San Francisco this year. ...

Web Exclusive - Saying he was concerned about financial incentives that named plaintiffs may receive in a class action, U.S. D...

WASHINGTON - Handing a significant victory to Wall Street, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday barred two antitrust class actions...

SAN FRANCISCO - Going to court turned out to be the only option for City Attorney Dennis Herrera to try to oust a member of th...

LOS ANGELES - A judge has held a former defense attorney for Phil Spector in coercive contempt of court Monday for refusing to...

LOS ANGELES - An attempt to dismiss a $1.8 million lawsuit claiming that actor Robert De Niro lied on a health insurance form ...

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...