SAN FRANCISCO - Dechert, a 750-lawyer Philadelphia firm, opened its second West Coast office Thursday - a modest, three-lawye...

LOS ANGELES - They're political activists who fight for social justice and don't pull any punches. And they're determined to ...

LOS ANGELES - Richard F. Alden, a Latham & Watkins partner and architect of the modern law firm management structure, die...

SANTA ANA - Jamie Duarte is going to Cuba, and he's taking 90 lawyers with him. Next month, Duarte, as president of the Orange...

CARLSBAD - Personal Expressions Inc., doing business as Patti's Hallmark (a card and gift store), leased 2,846 square feet of...

LOS ANGELES - Following a nationwide search that began last summer, county officials announced Wednesday that the field of co...

Column by Garry Abrams - Who invented reality? And who first realized that reality could be both fun and profitable? Those are...

LOS ANGELES - An Irvine developer Wednesday filed a petition for a rehearing of an appellate decision that could allow its pa...

LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles on Monday cut a check for just under $1 million to a bystander shot by members of the co...

LOS ANGELES - Steven Nolan still looks like a cop. The thick mustache trails downward into a goatee. The full head of hair is ...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Thierry Colaw on Wednesday heard an unhappy investor's petition to force Merri...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Gottlieb - The health care affordability crisis can be summed up in two words: unsustainable infl...

Focus Column Employment Law By Michelle A. Reinglass The 3rd District Court of Appeal in Rieger v. Arnold , 2002 DJDAR 14216 ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The 3rd District Court of Appeal in Rieger v. Arnold , 2002 ...

EL CENTRO - TRI Capital Co. Inc. structured an FHA 223 $6.12 million refinance on behalf of the owners of the 272-unit Posada...

LOS ANGELES - A couple of tips from veteran Judge Charles E. Frisco on ruling from the bench: Be independent, and be mindful o...

Forum Column - By Bess Blank - Usually legislation that affects litigation procedure is of little interest to anyone other tha...

In a case of first impression, the Review Department of the State Bar Court has recommended that an immigration lawyer be susp...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday revised the department's pursuit policy, which would put a...

LOS ANGELES - One day after the mayor and chief of police released a truckload of raw data on police stops, experts and advoca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster launched a new Hebrew-language Web site Tuesday to better cater to its Israeli techno...

SAN FRANCISCO - A new presiding judge has installed the old regime in the San Francisco Superior Courts' law and motion depar...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two former Cooley Godward partners in Kirkland, Wash., have landed in the Seattle office of San Francisco's O...

SAN FRANCISCO - An arbitrator has awarded $138,740 to a San Rafael lawyer after finding that another attorney attacked him in ...

SAN JOSE - Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian, whose tenure as acting presiding justice of the 6th District Court of Appeal ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has refused to allow Kim Boyd, the widow of a slain Pelican Bay State Prison inmate, to expan...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - It's been another year of significant developments in al...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Justice John E. Benson of the 1st District Court of Appeal has died following a lingering illness. Ben...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Tuesday to let stockholders sue for securities fraud on the g...

SAN FRANCISCO - Edsell "Chip" Eady Jr., the former head of Foley & Lardner's Northern California public finance group, joi...