VENTURA - Commissioner Bruce A. Young has a technique he uses when the litigants in his family law courtroom get too argumenta...

McDermott Will & Emery added James W. Soong as of-counsel to the firm's Silicon Valley office. Soong's practice focuses on...

The parents of two young brothers who died when their foster mother left them locked in a car in Lancaster on a sweltering Jul...

The California Supreme Court issued four opinions late last month dealing with Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation...

If not for journalists, fans at baseball stadiums across America might not have spent the summer booing Barry Bonds. ...

SAN DIEGO - One spring afternoon in 1992, Thomas Gniatkowski was knee deep in an arbitration when his secretary burst into the...

Domestic partnership is a family law issue, right? So what does it have to do with employers? A lot. California's domestic par...

Your Aug. 21 article on the recent report assessing regional Habitat Conservation Plans ("Study Questions Effectiveness of Hab...

Unpredictable and continually increasing energy costs show no signs of relenting. During July, high temperatures and resulting...

After hundreds of investors lost $240 million in a securities scam, a judge ruled that the state agency responsible for protec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Barney, the fictional purple dinosaur known for his songs about love and hugs, could be headed to court. ...

LOS ANGELES - Another Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan litigator is leaving to join Steptoe & Johnson's newly minted C...

LOS ANGELES - Defending the actions of police officers on Skid Row, a spokesman for Los Angeles Police Chief William H. Bratto...

Apple Computer has agreed to pay $100 million to settle a dispute over a patent used in its iPod, the company's popular digita...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys guilty of the worst behavior are a step closer to never practicing law again. ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Craig S. Summers turned down an offer to join Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear when he graduated from Lo...

SAN DIEGO - It's like an old-fashioned newspaper war, but only one side is a newspaper. The other is a blog by San Diego City ...

I am writing in response to the front-page article "Panel Tosses Conviction of Carjacker; Prosecutor in L.A. Withheld Evidence...

SAN FRANCISCO - There was no happy hour Wednesday for an heir to the Schlitz beer fortune who's serving a 265-year prison sent...

Despite the formidable efforts of cable news producers, newspapers and radio talkmeisters, evidence mounts that trial by media...

Los Angeles County attorney Tania Whiteleather worked hard for her client, Whitney Ford. But because she did it for love, she...

A United States Supreme Court ruling in a criminal case involving two foreign nationals raised a fundamental question of inter...

LOS ANGELES - Although Eric Gaynor left Latham & Watkins' Los Angeles office in 1999, the attorney continues to work with ...

Over the past decade, property owners could be forgiven for becoming a little complacent after a trilogy of favorable Californ...

LOS ANGELES - While Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley likes to talk tough about cracking down on public corrup...

WASHINGTON - When it comes to Hurricane Katrina litigation, no one has set his sights higher than Los Angeles attorney Pierce ...

The Schwarzenegger administration must arbitrate a beef with the prison guards' union over how to conduct employment negotiati...

LOS ANGELES - The latest police tactic to get the homeless off the streets of Skid Row is to arrest people for the unauthorize...

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Greta Fall combines pleasantness and control to make all in her courtroom comfortable a...

In companion rulings Tuesday, a federal judge in San Francisco blocked the U.S. Forest Service from carrying out a plan for ex...