LOS ANGELES - While some attorneys are generating new lawsuits in the wake of the indictment of celebrity private eye Anthony ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Caldwell, Leslie, Newcombe & Pettit recently lassoed litigator Linda M. Burrow from Munger...

Forrest Booth has joined Severson & Werson's San Francisco office as a partner in the firm's insurance practice group. Boo...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Christopher Cox was named to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, many critics couldn't resist co...

Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - An employer forgets to put the number of hours worked on a pay stub or rounds t...

Focus Column - By David Garcia and Erica Alterwitz - Very recently, two decisions from the 4th District Court of Appeal have u...

The Los Angeles district attorney should not be disqualified from prosecuting the driver of a deadly car crash that killed th...

LOS ANGELES - Haroun Mehdipour, 79, left his Santa Monica apartment on a spring morning in 2004 to catch the bus to the senio...

LOS ANGELES - Venetta S. Tassopulos finds similarities between her former duties as a U.S. magistrate judge and her current ro...

LOS ANGELES - A few years ago, Jay Ford's professional career was dominated by business torts and attorney compensation issues...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel has ruled that a Los Angeles Juvenile Court judge abused his discretion when he ordered...

Call it poetic justice. A famous 350-pound Venice Beach beat poet who was jailed for having sexual contact with a teenager, fe...

SAN FRANCISCO - No judge likes it when litigants or lawyers abuse the justice system. Some judges impose sanctions. Others mak...

LOS ANGELES - Three veteran judges have retired from the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench, one effective today and anot...

SUSPENSIONS Bell, Carole A. , London Blankenship, Mark Irvin , Riverside Dell'Osso, Michael , Tracy Dervaes Jr., Scott aka Sco...

LOS ANGELES - The courts have come a long way from landmark civil rights precedents establishing racial and gender equality. T...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys routinely hire private investigators to hunt for evidence. Now, following explosive claims of miscon...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The great irony in the gargantuan march of tens of thousands in Los Angeles and othe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday appointed veteran prosecutor Richard M. Goul to the seat on the Los A...

Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Ted M. Sichelman, and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - The year 2006 began with federal courts of ap...

SAN DIEGO - Bernard H. Siegan, a law school professor who counseled Eastern European and South American government officials o...

SAN FRANCISCO - As a senior art director in the marketing department of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Thomas Morris was ins...

LOS ANGELES - There is one thing that lawyers need to remember before appearing in U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert N. Block's cou...

LOS ANGELES - In a move leaving some participants and case observers crying foul, Los Angeles federal prosecutors gave documen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Expressing sensitivity for the rights of patent holders, a lively U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday fired a barr...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court said Wednesday it would look at the regulatory underpinnings of the 1999 deal tha...

LOS ANGELES - Former tenants of a Lancaster apartment house, including 36 children, have won a $3 million settlement from the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Judge Wynne Carvill sought a change of pace when he applied for the bench in 2000, but landing ...

Forum Column - By Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. - It has been one year since our mentor and friend, the late Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., ...

Focus Column - By Curt Metzgar - Ever since the California Supreme Court decided Gray v. Zurich Ins. Co . 65 Cal.2d 263 (1966)...