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 ...

Forum Column - By Larry J. Schweiger - How did Rachel Carson catch on to global warming decades before most Americans? ...

LOS ANGELES - The parent company of a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf store facing potentially $48 million in damages received good...

Employment Column - By Curtis A. Graham - Learn 12 ways that employers can keep themselves out of court. ...

Forum Column - By Angela Logomasini - Rachel Carson's environmental idealism is now costing lives. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time this year, Oakland civil-rights attorney John Burris has negotiated a major settlement for...

The high-stakes standoff between the White House and Congress over the controversial firings of several U.S. attorneys could r...

LOS ANGELES - First, they sent pre-litigation settlement letters. Now, they are going to court. The Recording Industry Associa...

LOS ANGELES - Burke, Williams & Sorenson, a regional business litigation firm, is set to acquire insurance litigation bout...