WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived tabloid celebrity Anna Nicole Smith's long-running legal efforts to secu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some 6 million Netflix customers will get free DVD rentals from the online service in a $70 million class acti...

What are you allowed to do if your high-school basketball coach yells profanities at you and your team, throws pens and towels...

LOS ANGELES - Carlos Herrera and Enrique Arellano both slipped into the United States two decades ago and raised families. On...

SAN FRANCISCO - The government can't make a lawsuit go away simply by asserting that it might compromise national security. B...

RIVERSIDE - On the eve of a new trial, attorneys unexpectedly announced a settlement Monday in a civil case against a high-ran...

SAN FRANCISCO - The new leaders of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman will probably be spread between D.C., Los Angeles and San F...

LOS ANGELES - Howard Vogel, a Florida-based real estate broker, has agreed to plead guilty to perjury in connection with his ...

LOS ANGELES - More than a month after reports that merger talks with Minneapolis-based Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi wer...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - It is not typical to write this column in the first person, but the topic is a bit differe...

Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - It is not uncommon in family law proceedings for the ...

LOS ANGELES - Environmental lawyer Cynthia Burch remembers watching trials at the International Court of Justice in The Hague...

The addition of a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer to Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker's litigation depar...

LOS ANGELES - James O. Thoma, a corporate media attorney, has joined Greenberg Traurig's Santa Monica office as a shareholder...

LOS ANGELES - Syd Whalley may not seem like the most obvious choice for the Western Center on Law and Poverty's next executive...

LOS ANGELES - Jeffrey C. Briggs, a partner at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan in Los Angeles, has been tapped to chair th...

LOS ANGELES - Mario Rocha was kicking back in the day room at Calipatria State Prison with a bunch of fellow inmates, watching...

LOS ANGELES - John Zhang sounds like he could be from Colorado or Oregon. But he was born and raised in Hangzhou, China. He g...

LOS ANGELES - Myanmar villagers said their nation's military used rape, torture and murder to force them to build a natural ga...

LOS ANGELES - Mary Lou Katz's lack of criminal-law experience was not a handicap when she became a Los Angeles Superior Court...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge James H. Poole was giving some of the misdemeanor defendants before him suggest...

Ethan D. Feffer joined the Orange County office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as a partner in the firm's corporat...

Attorneys Are Honored for Their Pro Bono Work - Katten Muchin Partner Gets Ms. Vision Award - DLA Piper Partners Avoid Archaic...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's judicial watchdog agency has accused Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jose A. Velasquez of co...

LOS ANGELES - The International Academy of Mediators, many of whose members were trained at Pepperdine University's Straus Ins...

Focus Column - By Anthony J. Oncidi - In a far-reaching opinion with important implications for all employers, the California ...

LOS ANGELES - What David A. Stephens likes best about his work as a mediator is his interactions with good lawyers. "I like de...

Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards and Clay Calvert - Does the First Amendment guarantee of free speech protect a public hig...

This fall, civil cases headed to the 3rd District Court of Appeal may take a mediation detour first. The Sacramento-based cour...

SAN FRANCISCO - A pharmaceutical giant has agreed to pay nearly $500 million to settle false advertising claims involving a co...