April closed with deal activity sharply up from March, capped by two mega transactions: Mars Inc.'s $23 billion purchase of th...

Drew Hansen and Mark Phillips, name partners of business litigation boutique Hansen & Phillips, and Michael L. Turrill, fo...

Jim Odriozola fought in Vietnam, tended bar in Mammoth and tried cases as a prosecutor and defense lawyer. Now, lawyers say, O...

Andrew M. Stein represented the elderly father of 41-year-old John Derek Chamberlain, who inmates at the Theo Lacy Facility ja...

Responding to decreased state funding that has sent student fees skyrocketing, UCLA School of Law has targeted the private sec...

Focus Column - By Keith Rohman - For lawyers, hiring the right interpreter is the critical first step in determining the quali...

The wife of former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona will not have to face trial alongside her husband, a federal judge ruled ...

Forum Column - By Donald J. Kochan - Precedent is the doggy bag of law - what we do with it when we get home makes all the dif...

Forum Column - By Sujatha Ganesan - Private entities should not be allowed to track individuals' Internet activities to increa...

Life has become a series of long flights for Teresa Cheng, a Hong Kong barrister and neutral, who is this year's president of ...

As a former managing partner of Arnold & Porter in Washington D.C., Jim Jones remembers when the position of general couns...

Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage - Veteran litigator Angela Padilla has left Morrison & Foerster after 16 years to become ...

U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., has introduced a bill calling for improved medical care for immigrants held in federal detent...

Few cases go to trial at Orange County's Harbor Justice Center thanks to Judge Margaret Anderson, who is amazingly deft at set...

While Merck's decision to extend the deadline for claimants joining its proposed $4.85 billion Vioxx personal-injury settlemen...

No one gets an edge with Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Applegate, who seeks to treat with respect and dig...

Charles Crompton, a Latham & Watkins San Francisco partner, was elected to chair the firm's global pro bono committee. To ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

“Putting an innocent person in jail is the legal equivalent of a plane crash,” said attorney Allen R. Bloom, whose client Cynt...

After a nine-week trial that fascinated Los Angeles' legal and entertainment communities, a federal jury began deliberations T...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Though there is still much work to be done, China has made enormous strides toward estab...

Caroline Vincent started building her alternative dispute resolution career 21 years ago, long before the lawyer-to-mediator p...

Focus Column - By Peter S. Selvin - The tripartite relationship between insured, insurer and counsel appointed by the insurer ...

EBay Inc. revealed a redacted version of a complaint filed in Delaware Chancery Court against Craigslist's controlling shareho...

A Ventura County man convicted of impersonating a lawyer and defrauding 17 "clients" of $50,000 has been sentenced to nine yea...

Plaintiffs who take home awards for emotional distress could be under increased scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service fol...

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - A simple, well-intentioned law addressing meal-period requirements has turned into...

A former Orange County deputy public defender has been convicted of stalking an ex-girlfriend and sending her harassing e-mail...

The White House has nominated San Diego County Superior Court Judge Michael N. Anello to be a judge on the U.S. District Court...

Did it really take an anonymous prison inmate to alert the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that it had a critical problem wi...