Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - A week ago Monday morning, I was sitting in a class with 13 enthusiastic, new judicial officer...

Focus Column - By Catherine W. Johnson - Last year, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a new accounting standard ...

Forum Column - By Brian J. Finn - As an attorney whose practice focuses in large part on advising real-estate professionals an...

It took a seven-year legal battle to return the "Mona Lisa of Austria" to a family in Los Angeles County. And if the Nazis had...

Since its inception 15 years ago, Greenberg Traurig's objective has been to gain a foothold in growing markets and key financi...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency Wednesday charged Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman ...

LOS ANGELES - Governments could be held liable in international dealings with foreign investors if U.S. courts uphold a $1 bil...

Chief Justice Ronald M. George suggested Wednesday that the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office was too harsh on a murder d...

LOS ANGELES - Thanks to former Playboy Playmate of the Year and onetime-stripper Anna Nicole Smith, we're going to be hearing ...

Milene Yerke is eminently practical. She has done whatever she needed to in order to survive and support herself. At various t...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Congress is once again trying to stop water from running downhill. This metaphor describes th...

Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - In its most recent child custody move-away case, the California Sup...

Forum Column - By Maya Harris - Last year, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of one of the most successful civil rights laws ...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promoted two Superior Court judges to appellate positions Tuesday and filled two Superior Court sea...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in three years, Microsoft has agreed to settle a class action antitrust claim filed by San...

LOS ANGELES - A seasoned construction manager has only himself to blame for a scaffold plank falling on his foot while he talk...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers Yuk K. Law and Kent T. Brandmeyer were never partners at the same firm, nor were they old law-school bu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Well, they won't have the late Humboldt County District Attorney Kenneth Newett Jr. to kick around anymore. In...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles will ask for a rehearing of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision barring police from arre...

SAN FRANCISCO - UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall admitted Eva Paterson in 1972 with a 2.7 grade point average and a Law School Admissi...

RIVERSIDE - A lawsuit four years ago charged that San Bernardino County officials treated juvenile hall inmates like "caged an...

Even after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to be tougher on prosecutors who kick minorities off juries, the Californ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles litigator Louis R. "Skip" Miller is in talks to join Boston-based Goodwin Procter, sources say. In a...

MARTINEZ - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Jill Fannin grew up in a household where body parts were often the subject...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a decision by liberal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Step...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The other day an anonymous source approached me on the street and handed me a bulky manila envelope...

Edi M.O. Faal cuts an imposing figure. He chooses his words carefully, giving him an almost regal bearing - in marked contrast...

Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - According to a recent 9th Circuit en banc decision, "[g]rooming st...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - "The reparations movement is grounded in the civil rights movement and the social justice mo...

SACRAMENTO - Lobbyists frequently gripe that term limits make it harder for them to get to know and understand the positions o...