LOS ANGELES - David J. Cowan, a Los Angeles business litigator, and Tamila Ipema, a research attorney with the Los Angeles Sup...

LOS ANGELES - To director James Cameron and other makers of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," it probably feels like dj vu, all ov...

LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood actor and an NFL player grabbed headlines this year for allegedly using the Whizzinator, a device in...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Monday ordered a national law firm and two of its attorneys to pay $267,000 in fees and costs a...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Two of the biggest stories out of the nation's capital this summer are legal thrillers worthy of th...

WASHINGTON - Although the current Supreme Court justices have spent considerable time deciding cases at the high court, they ...

OFFICE ONTARIO - Expanding its operations in the Inland Empire, IndyMac Bank has signed on for 40,000 square feet at the Airpo...

LOS ANGELES - Vowing to focus on improving job satisfaction among lawyers, Los Angeles trial attorney Brad D. Brian has taken...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Mitchell Zimmerman - The Supreme Court's decision on file sharing and copyright infr...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago resulted in the deaths of 200,00...

Pircher Nichols & Meeks has announced that Jeffrey N. Brown has joined the firm as a litigation partner in Los Angeles. Br...

LOS ANGELES - The Bar Association of San Francisco was one of four bar associations to receive the American Bar Association Pa...

LOS ANGELES - Greene Broillet & Wheeler has promoted firm associate Scott H. Carr to partner. Carr's addition increases th...

LOS ANGELES - A former Compton judge who pleaded no contest to embezzling thousands of dollars from his clients agreed Friday ...

LOS ANGELES - Handcuffed and casually dressed, Jack Abramoff, one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful lobbyists, appeared in a...

LOS ANGELES - Winston & Strawn's San Francisco office recently bulked up its corporate and finance group by hiring five at...

RETAIL SANTA ANA - Washington Capital Management Inc. acquired the 85,363-square-foot Brookhollow Showroom Retail Center for $...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Merrill Lynch & Co. agreement to pay $37 million to settle a class action brought on behalf of the firm...

Employment Column - By Joel M. Grossman - Although mediating employment cases is in some ways no different from mediating othe...

Forum Column - By Elizabeth A. Moreno - In the civil justice system, alternative dispute resolution has become a substitute fo...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Dennis M. P. Ehling - As American sports fans watched intently, present and former profe...

Forum Column - By Daniel J. Koes - I am not a fan of television in general, specifically reality television. But something wil...

LOS ANGELES - A year and a half after Safeway opened a gas station in the parking lot of its supermarket in Hollister, local ...

LOS ANGELES - Jack A. Weichman's weekly planner is full of entries for arbitration hearings, mediation sessions, university le...

LOS ANGELES - A former inmate who claimed that inadequate medical care at a county jail resulted in the loss of his testicle h...

SAN FRANCISCO - After a seven-year legal battle, a gay immigrant who was beaten unconscious by police outside a gay bar in his...

LOS ANGELES - Chalk up a major victory for home builders in construction-defect litigation. In a harsh blow to homeowners who ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous California Supreme Court declined to advance the corporate responsibility trend Thursday when it r...

LOS ANGELES - When supermodel Anna Nicole Smith arrived in a Houston probate court in 2001, some jurors thought she probably d...

SAN FRANCISCO - Many may believe that tempers flair most often in family law court over issues involving money. Not so, said ...