To have a homeowners' association sued by a general contractor is odd enough. Typically, it's the other way around. What makes...

New York-based Kelley Drye & Warren elevated five attorneys, including two Los Angeles lawyers, to the partnership, the fi...

BY SHEILA MUTO Dow Jones Newswires Call it the battle of El Segundo. Two real-estate developers in this California industrial...

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates recently elected Donna Melby as vice president. Melby, a liti...

After helping establish Cooley Godward's trademark practice in San Diego, Lisa Martens has ditched the Palo Alto-based firm fo...

A Silicon Valley legal team advised a Southern fiber-optics company in its latest round of venture financing, which raised $15...

Los Angeles' Musick, Peeler & Garrett has experienced a growth spurt over the past three months, hiring 10 new attorneys -...

Litigation partner John W. Fowler left Bingham McCutchen to join Bergeson Eliopoulos, a litigation boutique in San Jose, the f...

Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstrief is leaving its Santa Monica headquarters for Westwood Village. The firm has inked...

Attorney Cary Hall is no stranger to work with the Center for Law in the Public Interest. In high school, he worked as assista...

Column by James J. Farrell and Anthony N. Luti - The number of class actions has grown tremendously over the last decade. Betw...

Column by Jeff Kichaven and Deborah Rothman - Is there a role for humor in mediation? - To answer this question, we turned to ...

Dechert has expanded into Germany with the opening of a Frankfurt office in early August. Corporate lawyer Gerhard Kaiser has ...

Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro is almost finished with the moving vans and the shuffle of relocating to new offices. Th...

Keeping track of the movement of 80 attorneys is not an easy thing to do, but with intellectual property boutique Lyon & L...

Matthew McNicholas beat the odds in Norwalk. The 30-year-old up-and-coming attorney won a $1.25 million jury award in a tradit...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Already a textbook example of successful redevelopment, downtown San Diego is fine-tunin...

Wearing a dark suit, long dark coat and hat, Rabbi Chaim Baruch Rubin sweats in the hot summer sun. "Well, this is it," Rubin ...

Driving up to meet a client, "Ya just gotta look good," joked Stephen S. Russell, when asked about the close connection that ...

Focus Column - By Alec H. Boyd - California law may prohibit a firm from accepting or continuing employment adverse to parties...

SACRAMENTO - In a final rush to pass hundreds of bills by Saturday's deadline, the Legislature sent measures to the governor t...

LOS ANGELES - Following last week's announcement that as many as 30 Lyon & Lyon lawyers are joining the firm, San Francisc...

LOS ANGELES - Sitting in church one Sunday, Sandra L. Buttitta, Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, was fretting over...

SAN FRANCISCO - If Linda Klee, the top administrator in the San Francisco district attorney's office, wants to calculate her d...

SACRAMENTO - Emily Vasquez is a humble, gracious, quiet woman with an audacious streak that would astonish anyone who is not i...

Column by Garry Abrams - If you want to commit burglary and maybe get away with it, try breaking into a government building on...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ann M. Pease, special counsel to Cooley Godward's intellectual property litigation group, has jumped ship and ...

LOS ANGELES - An angry judge's broadside from the bench has drawn attention to California Rule of Court 980, which governs the...

Forum Column - By Margaret Crosby - In striking down the McCarthy-era law that rewrote the Pledge of Allegiance to insert the ...

Forum Column - By Julia Alanen - In Los Angeles County, an indigent non-English-speaker is unlikely to achieve a meaningful da...