FORUM COLUMN - By Michael C. McMahon - A Ventura public defender suggests some legislative fixes to California's sentencing sy...

LOS ANGELES - After two stints as associate general counsel at the Directors Guild of America, David Korduner was promoted Tue...

SAN FRANCISCO - Talk about thinking globally and acting locally. ...

LOS ANGELES - One of the longest-running and most controversial immigration cases in U.S. history came a step closer to ending...

SACRAMENTO - Donald C. Green, one of the state's most experienced lobbyists, has lost his contract with the politically powerf...

Watch out veteran lawyers -- California's top young lawyers are playing key roles in mega-mergers, high-stakes litigation and ...

INGLEWOOD - Don't mess with Lori Jones. The Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner will give you plenty of time to pay...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Business Council is calling for entries to its 37th Los Angeles Architectural Awards. ...

Riverside County's new district attorney Rod Pacheco has come under fire from judges who say his plea-bargaining crackdown is ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court toppled California's 30-year-old criminal-sentencing system. Will that decis...

LOS ANGELES - The Southeast Bar Association installed criminal defense attorney David D. Ribeiro as its 76th president at the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco supervisor today will seek a grace period that will keep the city's generous new sick leave po...

LOS ANGELES - In a blow to federal prosecutors' criminal investigation of star lawyer William S. Lerach, John Torkelsen has de...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Ending a marriage isn't easy when family, kids and se...

SAN FRANCISCO - California trial judges and appellate courts continue to grapple with the U.S. Supreme Court's 2002 ruling bar...

COLUMN - By Jason Song - The technology industry's maturation mirrors human development, at least in the in M&A world. ...

SACRAMENTO - Jerry Brown was a celebrity governor in the 1970s, boyfriend to pop singer Linda Ronstadt and a conspicuous targe...

LOS ANGELES - Adam H. Braun was a relative latecomer when he took over the federal criminal prosecution of Ralphs Grocery Corp...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court signaled Monday that there may be times when it's appropriate for judges to order pe...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Black Liberation Army isn't sitting quietly while the criminal justice system decides the fate of eight me...

FORUM COLUMN - By Kara Dansky - The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that part of California's sentencing scheme is unconstitutiona...

FORUM COLUMN - By Michael Axline - The city of Modesto's $178 million verdict against Dow Chemical was an appropriate applicat...

Make Room on Bench for Public Defenders

Veteran lobbyist Ray LeBov has turned his years of experience in the State Capitol into an education for others, With his insi...

SAN JOSE - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw is beefing up its intellectual property practice with the addition to its Palo Alto of...

RIVERSIDE - In a drastic move, Riverside's supervising criminal court judge Friday dismissed two misdemeanor cases, saying the...

LOS ANGELES - Litigator Dominique R. Shelton's move into the Los Angeles office of Kaye Scholer from Folger, Levin & Kahn ...

LOS ANGELES - Four more partners are departing Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner's downtown Los Angeles office for desti...

SAN FRANCISCO - The new chairwoman of the Senate Judiciary Committee met with state-court administrators recently to discuss p...