LOS ANGELES - Once the bright lights have dimmed and the tour buses have rolled to a stop, the battle of the bands, it seems, ...

Michael Mallow, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, received in July the Presi...

RETAIL LOS ANGELES - NAI Capital negotiated a $2.34 million sale of a 6,795-square-foot strip center at the corner of South N...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sounding like a Greek chorus, the leading lights of the Bay Area's criminal defense bar pleaded with the judg...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - Early this year, a judge accused a San Francisco law firm of "pla...

PALO ALTO - Shirley Buccieri, a former general counsel of Transamerica Corp., has rejoined Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in Palo...

LOS ANGELES - William Shernoff's desk has yet to arrive, and art works lean against the walls of his office waiting to be hun...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has tapped benefits expert Christine Richardson as a partner in the firm's Sa...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that a convicted criminal defendant granted a new trial and later acquitted has...

SAN FRANCISCO - After eight years of battling over pepper spray, it appears that plaintiffs' attorneys representing North Coa...

SAN FRANCISCO - After eight years of battling over pepper spray, it appears that plaintiffs attorneys representing North Coas...

LOS ANGELES - Rocky Delgadillo on Friday named two veteran attorneys with government experience to top posts in the Los Angel...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Chief Assistant District Attorney Karyn Sinunu, who was first out of the gate in the campaign t...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Friday refused to dismiss the county from a lawsuit filed by Thomas Lee Goldstein, whose mur...

SAN FRANCISCO - While the Los Angeles superior court recently finalized a deal giving interpreters their first-ever employee c...

LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday issued some legal tips for music makers: If you write an origin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Contracts governing the distribution of a vast amount of Central Valley water were put under a legal cloud by...

Gerald Barron has joined Lozano Smith as senior litigation counsel in the firm's Monterey office. Barron was previously at Sho...

INDUSTRIAL OXNARD - Anticipating expansion, Olde Thompson leased a 43,072-square-foot industrial facility at 3501 Camino Del S...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - From the villages of Sudan to the factories, sweatshops and brothels of India and Southeas...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The argument raged hot and heavy among patrons at a popular coffeehouse over who was...

Employment Column - By John Lattin - In June, medical marijuana went up in smoke. On June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the...

Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Bill Detamore - By any standard, a $1.55 billion lesson is expensive, even for Morgan Stanle...

LOS ANGELES - Southern California became the latest battleground this week in a nationwide fight over manganese, a mineral use...

LOS ANGELES - Insurers won a victory with a recent California Supreme Court opinion that found in favor of enforcing a binding...

SAN BERNARDINO - A veteran San Bernardino deputy district attorney who was fired following allegations that he leaked a confi...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of Southern California's most prominent environmental legal advocates, Gail Ruderman Feuer, was among a s...

LOS ANGELES - Public-interest lawyers suddenly have found new respect in Los Angeles City Hall. In his first month on the job,...

LOS ANGELES - Some might say it's fitting that Earl P. Willens' favorite song is Frank Sinatra's "My Way." The woolly, 70-year...

LOS ANGELES - The judges of the Orange Superior Court have elected three commissioners. Craig E. Arthur, Max DeLiema and Glenn...