Forum Column - By Elisa Massimino - The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that the preside...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Wednesday struggled over how to resolve a challenge by drug manufacturers to a Main...

Forum Column - By Robert Gnalzda and Nativo Lopez - Rehnquist may be the wrong leader to raise the issue of an increase in the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers are about to find out whether securities regulators intend to go through with a plan to tur...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers are about to find out if securities regulators intend to go through with a plan to turn the...

LOS ANGELES - In the early morning hours, while most people are sleeping, Judge William A. MacLaughlin is awake, tending to hi...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle has been assigned to determine whether eight cases involving allega...

WASHINGTON - Handing a solid victory to prosecutors, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that a criminal conspiracy...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has handed a local environmental group a significant victory in its bitter, multimilli...

Reporter's Notebook - By Robert Selna - Nearly a year after someone detonated an explosive in a men's restroom at the Hall of ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Karen Marie Kitterman - Those companies that fail to focus on the tax aspects of the...

LOS ANGELES - Why can't American lawyers be more like the English? That question took hold of Alan Fenster when he became the ...

RIVERSIDE - In a rare move for a judge, Janice McIntyre is stepping down from the Riverside Superior Court to practice law ag...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's novel 1999 law giving World War II victims of Japanese or German slave labor the right to sue co...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to clarify which legal avenues mentally ill death row inmates ca...

YUCAIPA - By the time 13-year-old Dylan Carr committed suicide with his grandfather's rifle, four months had passed since he r...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday held unconstitutional California's landmark law allowing individ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to clarify which legal avenues mentally ill death row inmates can...

Employment and labor law attorney Colleen Regan is leaving Perkins Coie to join Santa Monica litigation boutique Van Etten, S...

By Erik Cummins In November, a Cooley Godward memo stated obliquely that its two remaining Kirkland, Wash., partners, Christo...

The Association of Southern California Defense Counsel named its officers for the year 2003. Paul Fine is president-elect. He...

By Toni Vranjes San Marino's East West Bancorp Inc. is continuing its buying spree, agreeing to purchase Pacific Business Ban...

By Erik Cummins Midway through his career as a construction litigator, Jeffrey Sykes took some time off and reassessed his li...

Liz Valsamis Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Places to Work is a list that sports a variety of corporations, but few law firms. T...

By Liz Valsamis Bonne, Bridges, Mueller, O'Keefe & Nichols has opened its much-needed Las Vegas office. Los Angeles litig...

By Joan Osterwalder Juries didn't buy into corporate America in 2002. Business fraud cases made up the bulk of the top 10 jury...

By Liz Valsamis After 18 months of commuting from his San Diego county home to Fish & Neave's Palo Alto office, partner N...

By Stefanie Knapp For the first time in its three-year history, the Employment Law Alliance surveyed its member attorneys to ...

By Liz Valsamis After three years of helping rebuild the economies of countries that had belonged to the former Soviet Union,...