Echoes of the Boom - Deals surged in California last year, as public companies worked to grow firms and buyout companies put t...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco prosecutors took extraordinary steps to protect the anonymity of a jailhouse informant, their st...

Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The State Bar is thinking about expanding the classes of members who can vote in electi...

Focus Column - By Michael Mallow - California's unfair competition law, Business and Professions Code Section 17200, et seq., ...

SACRAMENTO - The Westlake Village law firm Masry & Vititoe, made famous by the Oscar-winning movie "Erin Brokovich," could...

LOS ANGELES - No longer can Oakland-based Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson be accused of just tire kicking when it come...

SANTA ANA - One morning, Christopher J. Skorina popped by the law library in the Santa Ana civic center to do a little researc...

WASHINGTON - Two Supreme Court justices had a message for Congress on Tuesday about a proposal to televise their proceedings: ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carol B. Goodson is adept at dodging the spotlight, but she is far from ...

LOS ANGELES - Jesse Alejo was just looking for a ride. When his friend, Erick Loza, drove up, he was more than happy to jump i...

Many intellectual property lawyers would concede that women have traditionally been underrepresented in the practice area. Des...

SAN FRANCISCO - A court staffer who blew the whistle on her boss for allegedly steering computer consulting contracts to his r...

SANTA ANA - In January, three sole practitioners in Laguna Beach and San Francisco soundly lost an appeal in a little-noticed ...

LOS ANGELES - A murder conviction shouldn't be knocked down to manslaughter just because a man so resented being called a "fag...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two California Supreme Court justices might experience a sense of deja vu during arguments today in a case wit...

LOS ANGELES - Two of the most prominent lawyers at the firm at the center of the wiretapping and racketeering probe of celebri...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide how federal immigration law should treat a legal resident alien wh...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles charged Hollywood director and producer John McTiernan on Monday with a sing...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - When is a change in the law not a change at all? When that change "lives" only on pap...

LOS ANGELES - Betty Broady remembers her husband, Judge Earl C. Broady Sr., as a fair and compassionate jurist. "But the two o...

SAN DIEGO - LabCorp leased a 109,780-square-foot building in the Sabre Springs Business Park at 13112 Evening Creek Drive Sout...

Focus Column - By Bruce Jackson and David Carlson - In the unpublished California Superior Court case Buettner v. Bertelsmann ...

Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - According to G.K. Chesterton, an early 20th century English writer, "Man is most comfo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A few weeks ago, O'Melveny & Myers partner Darin Snyder stood in front of about 700 students at Balboa Hig...

LOS ANGELES - The promise of a free lunch was not enough to get John J. Giovannone to sit for the LSAT. A college friend didn'...

LOS ANGELES - Five more attorneys have defected from Holland & Knight's trusts and estates practice group to join Luce, Fo...

LOS ANGELES - As Newport Beach-based Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth makes its debut in the Los Angeles legal market today...

SAN FRANCISCO - From getting tailed through the streets of Kuala Lumpur to working on the recent land-use scrap over San Franc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carlos Bea may be the only active federal circuit judge to have faced a deportation order from the U.S. govern...

SAN FRANCISCO - Seattle bankruptcy lawyer Jay Jump saw a spike in business when he hired an outside consultant to arrange word...