SAN FRANCISCO - California Chief Justice Ronald M. George had high hopes for this year's legislative session in Sacramento. At...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association honored Superior Court Judge Jacqueline A. Connor on Thursday with its 2006 Outstandin...

Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott announced that managing partner Scott P. DeVries was re-elected to his seventh consecutive...

MURRIETA - Superior Court Judge James T. Warren sees himself as a fly-under-the-radar kind of guy. But there's a flip side to ...

NEW YORK - Lawyers at Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman struggled Thursday to show they were pressing forward with the bu...

LOS ANGELES - The bombshell conspiracy and mail fraud indictment of securities class-action giant Milberg Weiss Bershad & ...

Focus Column - By Sarah M. King - This week, in eBay v. MercExchange, the Supreme Court stepped definitively into the patent r...

Forum Column - By Diane J. Klein - Popular cable channel VH1 runs a regular segment called "Best Week Ever," which typically f...

Employment Column - By John A. Vogt - Obtaining summary judgment in defense of a discrimination claim is difficult, to say the...

Billionaire investor Ron Burkle has fought to keep his high-profile divorce from the public eye, but on Thursday, an appellate...

LOS ANGELES - A popping sound came from the boys' bathroom. Moments later, a 15-year old boy emerged, spraying more bullets in...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a two-year labor contract Thursday with a union representing state lawyers and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland public-interest group is filing suit today to keep the Federal Emergency Management Agency from cut...

SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court Monday could drastically change how lower courts handle patent ...

The state's high court concluded Thursday that a former Alameda County prosecutor lied about colluding with a judge to kick Je...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Thursday charged one of the world's most successful class action firms, M...

SANTA ANA - Judge Wendy S. Lindley doesn't refer to most of the convicted felons who appear in her court as defendants. To Li...

LOS ANGELES - When a federal judge told Los Angeles County it could not close a rehabilitation center providing specialized me...

Federal Court rulings from March 2006 created conflicts of authority on important issues affecting businesses and government o...

Her father was a cook. Her mother was a homemaker. But Dalila Corral Lyons became a judge. When Lyons enrolled at the Universi...

LOS ANGELES - After several days of intense negotiations in Washington, D.C., attorneys working to stave off the indictment of...

SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous federal jury on Wednesday rejected a claim for damages against former San Francisco police officer...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not just fly-by-night bandits who make unauthorized copies of computer software. The Los Angeles County S...

Pepsi, apparently, goes down easier than Coke. At least that's the implication from the Coca-Cola Co.'s feisty reaction to a l...

LOS ANGELES - Paramount Pictures chief Brad Grey has asked a judge to stay a movie producer's suit seeking to add him as a def...

SAN FRANCISCO_Sometime in the middle of the night last Friday, the federal government asserted the formidable state secrets pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Not long after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, court business in Louisiana and Mississippi struggled...

SACRAMENTO - Patterson Wheeler, a new lobbying firm, has sprouted near the state's Capitol with a single client: California Bu...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - At the conclusion of most depositions the table is littered with documents produced by o...

Focus Column - Heather N. Mewes and Darren E. Donnelly - Patentees enter every jury trial with one distinct advantage: an of...