SACRAMENTO - A six-year effort by the judiciary to get more judges to address the needs of the state's growing population has ...

FOCUS COLUMN - Automobile manufacturers are facing a new type of liability, in the form of government lawsuits seeking to forc...

The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether the Talent Agencies Act applies to personal manage...

SAN FRANCISCO - Misconduct by federal judges got a lot of attention last week from both Congress and the judiciary itself. ...

FORUM COLUMN - Conjure this: You're suddenly involved in a complicated and controversial legal case and one morning your secre...

SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie rotated in a new San Francisco office managing partner who will oversee the growth and recruiting...

FORUM COLUMN - Civil rights cases often raise historical questions. But, as Justice Anthony Kennedy observed, lawyers and judg...

LOS ANGELES - Hogan & Hartson has lured a high-profile litigator from Irell & Manella to take the reigns of its West C...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court will face a mountain of petitions that have piled up over the quiet summer months when the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters ordered to jail for refusing to name sources of secret grand jury testim...

LOS ANGELES - For the past several years, critics have lambasted a Justice Department policy that calls on companies under inv...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lethal injection, a three-drug cocktail which is the most comon method of capital punishment, goes on trial th...

The creator of Children's Chambers, Orange County Superior Court Judge Linda Miller presides over family law cases at the Lamo...

McDonough Holland & Allen added Wynne Furth as of-counsel to the firm's Oakland office. Furth, who joined the firm's publi...

SAN FRANCISCO - State Supreme Court Justice Marvin R. Baxter's fascination with cars dates to his childhood. ...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson's chambers are not the staid and removed preserve that norm or tradition m...

WASHINGTON - Los Angeles federal judge Manuel L. Real forcefully defended himself before Congress Thursday against a Republica...

LOS ANGELES - When Katherine J. Edwards was 14, she walked into a clothing store and asked for a job. They gave it to her. ...

FOCUS COLUMN - On July 6, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security issued proposed amendments to the Export A...

FORUM COLUMN - New York attorney Tom Troiano received a fee of one-third of the $6.7 million obtained by his client from the 9...

LOS ANGELES - A former telephone company employee testified Thursday she did not intentionally lie to a federal grand jury abo...

LOS ANGELES - Former law students have moved a step closer to trial in their $300 million antitrust lawsuit against BAR/BRI, t...

FORUM COLUMN - The United States Supreme Court recently put in flux the law regarding patentable subject matter. ...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - The highly charged issue of illegal immigration is a fixture on the front pages, newscasts and political b...

A mentally disordered grandson of former California Gov. and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Earl Warren was swindled ...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors preparing the criminal kickback case against class-action powerhouse Milberg, Weiss, Bershad & S...

"Stormin' Norman" Vroman, Mendocino County's colorful and controversial district attorney for 18 years, died Thursday after su...

LOS ANGELES - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is paying the legal bills of priests accused of sexual abuse. ...

California labor unions won a reversal of fortune Thursday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a state law forbi...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Thursday to approve the nomination of N. Randy Smith to th...