LOS ANGELES - Workers at five Los Angeles nonunion hotels are embroiled in contentious organizing drives just as the areas hos...

Forum Column - By Michael Halley - The Supreme Court's decisions about which cases it accepts to review are crucial for the ad...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Paul H. Alvarado, a veteran of two decades on the bench, is retiring Wednesday. ...

Letter to the Editor - Thank you for providing a well-balanced, broad brush stroke of workers' compensation practice. "How Has...

LOS ANGELES - After spending three and a half years as in-house counsel for NBC Universal, Camilo Echavarria has joined Davis ...

Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - California Civil Code Section 2860 addresses an insurance carrier's duty to provide and pay...

If police departments want to investigate whether officers are making traffic stops based on the race of the driver, they don'...

LOS ANGELES - Not long ago, the idea of an individual's right to counsel in civil cases was endorsed by few people outside the...

Los Angeles prosecutors failed to hand over evidence favorable to an armed-robbery defendant, leading a state appellate panel ...

Forum Column - Our life experience colors our perspectives of various issues. I was a 33-year-old wife, mother and teacher whe...

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WASHINGTON - Federal appellate Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld may be best known for writing a decision that was music to the ears o...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed two recently elected Superior Court judges to immediate judgeships. ...

Forum Column - In Lockheed Litigation Cases, No. S132167, the state Supreme Court is poised to decide a legal issue that could...

SAN FRANCISCO - David I. Frazee had a $22,000 stack of chips when the dealer dealt him the ace and queen, suited in spades. It...

Focus Column - Mediators spend a lot of time discussing, among themselves, what makes a good mediator. These discussions are l...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Michael Nash, presiding judge of Los Angeles County's Children's Court, has been honored for his leadershi...

LOS ANGELES - When Charulata Pagar rejoined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' Los Angeles office as a partner in the advertising,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi will run unopposed in November for a second four-year term. ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys and court personal struggled last week to continue work with the closure of the Central Civil West Cou...

WASHINGTON - Time may be running out for the federal judiciary to convince Congress that judicial seminars aren't junkets in d...

SAN FRANCISCO - A clearly exasperated Superior Court judge threatened the city's Housing Authority chief with jail time Friday...

Fast forward 20 years in the events in James Heiting's life, and he might not be a member of the State Bar, let alone its curr...

A federal appeals court cited ineffective assistance of counsel Friday in reversing the death sentence of a Bay Area man convi...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Maureen A. Tighe touts the accomplishment possible in her court, but attorneys who have practiced before...

One the Move - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has announced the addition of Daniel N. Yannuzzi as special counsel in ...

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jo-Lynne Q. Lee finds so much satisfaction in the theater of her courtroom that she doesn'...

Whether editing a literary magazine in college, pouring over footnotes when he was a law clerk or assessing arguments from the...