VENTURA - Mark Borrell completed the 129-mile "Death Ride" this summer. The grueling one-day ride, officially called the Tour ...

LOS ANGELES - There's no address marker or sign outside, and the building hides behind a layer of ivy. That's the way Blair Be...

LOS ANGELES - Gregory B. Koltun has taken over as managing partner of Morrison & Foerster's Los Angeles office after his p...

LOS ANGELES - Just a few months after becoming a partner at national powerhouse McGuireWoods, corporate taxation specialist Ma...

LOS ANGELES - Natasha Roit has spent most of her legal career looking out for the little guy. ...

Focus Column - The California Legislature joined a growing national trend when it passed the state's first anti-SLAPP law, pro...

SAN JOSE - In another example of the potential legal exposure of some company lawyers in options backdating investigations, Sa...

Riverside lawyer Bruce D. Varner is one of two men appointed Thursday to the California Board of Regents. ...

SACRAMENTO - Politics once again is threatening court officials' efforts to get 50 new judges on the state's bench over the ne...

Forum Column - Three cheers for Vaughn Walker. Vaughn who? you ask. Until very recently, he was also unknown to lawyers and po...

SACRAMENTO - Tort reformers are hailing the demise of legislation that would have revived the ability of the state attorney ge...

LOS ANGELES - The ink is dry on a potentially $900-million settlement in a class action against Epson America and there's good...

SAN FRANCISCO - California has long struggled with a fundamental paradox: People love it here and more keep coming, but in so ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has entered the contentious debate over judicial training, issuing an advisory o...

Loeb & Loeb has announced the promotion of three partners to chair positions in their Los Angeles and New York offices.

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Stephen J. Sundvold has been so successful settling cases that another judge wa...

LOS ANGELES - The Newport Beach-based powerhouse firm Robinson, Calcagnie Robimson scored the first plaintiffs' victory in a f...

The infamous Trygar action, filed by Masry & Vititoe (of Erin Brockovich fame) against auto dealers in California and know...

LOS ANGELES - The AARP, the massive elder-citizen advocacy group, threw its weight behind the state attorney general's office ...

If things had gone differently for mediator Jeffery P. Castner 28 years ago, this story might never have been written. ...

SAN DIEGO - CBS television decided that the second season of its "Rock Star" reality show would feature a new band called Supe...

Forum Column - As the gubernatorial election looms, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic challenger Phil Angelides are sq...

Letter to Editor - Stephen F. Rohde objects to John Stewart's criticism of the ACLU for undermining traditional American value...

Two years into his three-year probation, former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser received a court order ...

Employment Column - A federal judge has allowed former Iraqi prisoners to state negligent-hiring claims, among other common-la...

After 19 Contra Costa County attorneys last week refused to represent convicted murderer Susan Polk in her last-ditch effort t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Experts say a Detroit federal judge's order Thursday barring warrantless government wiretapping will have a ri...

A proposed California law that would bar secret settlements in sexual abuse cases like the ones that plague the Roman Catholic...

A judge handed a partial victory Thursday to seven women who claim they were victims of sexual harassment and discrimination w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Setting up a showdown this fall between the Judicial Council and hundreds of trial judges throughout the state...