WASHINGTON - San Jose-based eBay Inc. got a boost Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that wipes out the longstanding...

SANTA ROSA - Court staffers have a nickname for Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Knoel L. Owen: Superman. Owen undoubtedly ...

LOS ANGELES - George Washington wanted to take in all the poor, needy and oppressed of the earth. Benjamin Franklin, however,...

Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - In 1990, the California Supreme Court rendered its decision in AIU Insurance Company v. Sup...

SAN FRANCISCO - Megafirm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has lost a top media defense litigator to midsized Sheppard Mullin Richte...

LOS ANGELES - Anticipating a growth spurt in Orange County, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius is launching a labor and employment gr...

LOS ANGELES - Boston, we have a problem. Prominent litigator Louis R. "Skip" Miller's lateral move to Goodwin Procter has st...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran labor and employment litigator Barbara Fitzgerald has joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as a partner in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's San Francisco real estate group landed a land use partner with political and bus...

SAN FRANCISCO - Greenberg Traurig's international team of mass torts litigators bolstered its bench last week by capturing a ...

LOS ANGELES - During her 18 years as an environmental lawyer, Gail Ruderman Feuer earned a reputation as a skilled negotiator,...

LOS ANGELES - In the wake of the Rampart police corruption scandal, federal officials swooped in on the Los Angeles Police Dep...

LOS ANGELES -A highly regarded former federal judge in Washington, D.C., has written the U.S. Justice Department urging prosec...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has delivered what could be a major blow to California's unique toxic warnings law, Prop...

SACRAMENTO - Last year, property owners around the country howled when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Connecticut city's righ...

SANTA ANA — As a young litigation associate with a couple of major Southern California law firms, Corey S. Cramin didn’t have ...

Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - The right to own a home and reasonably use it is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Ho...

Kirkland & Ellis announced that Ephraim Starr has rejoined the firm from Honeywell International Inc., where he was vice p...

LOS ANGELES - When Allison Margolin was chosen to speak at her junior high school's D.A.R.E. - Drug Abuse Resistance Education...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - It is very strange. One would have thought that the elementary concept that the governm...

Focus Column - By Theodore F. Monroe, Bradley O. Cebeci and Jonathan Dekel - E-commerce and direct marketing have revolutioniz...

Letter to the Editor - I was fascinated by your May 2 article on the lawsuit against Joseph Cavallo for invasion of privacy ("...

LOS ANGELES - Mediator Elizabeth A. Moreno is passionate about diversity. Moreno is the diversity chair of the dispute resol...

SAN BERNARDINO - A state appellate court Thursday affirmed a jury's $1.4 million award to an all-nude strip club, ruling the c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Irvine-based Payne & Fears, a small labor and employment firm, announced Thursday that it absorbed the Lou...

American lawyers need to change their thinking on socially conscious investing. That's the opinion of Paul Watchman, a senior...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has refused to let a Drug Enforcement Administration chemist testify about how much PCP could ha...

WASHINGTON - Republican senators swapped Texas for California as a model for tort reform, but they still couldn't muster the v...

Forum Column - By Keith Paul Bishop - American entertainer W.C. Fields once quipped, "I never vote for anybody, I always vote ...

Focus Column - By Jason H. Anderson - The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that arbitration clauses in contracts governed by t...