SAN FRANCISCO - Donna Mezias made a mental note to herself when Jones Day recruited Robert Mittelstaedt, a senior litigation ...

LOS ANGELES - Three open commissioner seats on the Los Angeles Superior Court were filled Friday with the election of Santa M...

LOS ANGELES - A former Carson official who said she was fired for exposing corruption in the south Los Angeles County city wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carlos Ynostroza doesn't say much in court. He just lets the lawyers try t...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Could that be a dead, stinking rat wrapped in the First Amendment on the doorstep of the Santa Moni...

LOS ANGELES - Kody Scott, a former Eight Tray Crips member-turned-author, pleaded guilty Monday to resisting an officer and t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A major national eye care provider called Vision Service Plan had a vision of its own: Use a lawmakers' typo ...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Wendy Lazerson joined Holland & Knight five years ago, she hoped to spearhead its labor and employme...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to pay $325 million EMC Corp. to end four years of litigation over patents for ...

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles prosecutor who now works as a defense lawyer says he may file a federal civil rights lawsui...

SAN JOSE - The criminal case against former Santa Clara County deputy public defender Thomas Spielbauer for misleading a judg...

Taking cases on contingency has long been a practice reserved for personal-injury or trial attorneys willing to take on an ind...

Lured by the well-established real estate practice at Los Angeles' Brown, Winfield & Canzoneri, partner Wendy Glenn joined...

Sometimes, decisions to take a cross-continental trek in search of a new job are made for you. Such was the case when former J...

Attorney Ethan Schulman says he won't let client Hastings College of the Law fall prey to the Christian Legal Society's nation...

Geraldine Johnson of Arizona was sexually abused repeatedly for five years as a young teenager. Her abuser was her parents' bo...

Perhaps taking a cue from Marlon Brando's performance in the 1953 film "Julius Caesar," two longtime associates of the actor h...

Fourteen-year-old Irma Perez had never taken the illegal stimulant Ecstasy before going to a slumber party at a friend's house...

Thanks to several Los Angeles attorneys, the east end of the famous Sunset Strip is getting a face-lift. Attorneys from Weston...

INSTITUTIONAL MORENO VALLEY - MIF LLC purchased the Moreno Valley Ranch Golf Club at 28095 John F. Kennedy Drive from Atsugi ...

Mossimo Giannulli wants the shirts off his investors' backs, and he's hired Latham & Watkins' Orange County attorneys to h...

Shaq and Kobe they're not. They probably couldn't be bench players for the Clippers or the Kings or even make it as freshmen w...

Software giant Adobe Systems Inc., maker of the popular Acrobat document-sharing software, has announced plans to acquire riva...

An autopsy report concluded that 40-year-old Michael L. Sanders of Fresno died from a cocaine overdose. But his widow's lawyer...

Clients of mediator Gig Kyriacou could be forgiven for mistaking the Toluca Lake neutral for a wayward gourmet chef: First he ...

Pittsburgh-based Buchanan Ingersoll may have been down, but it showed in April that it's not out in San Diego. And firm manage...

EXTRA Column - By Ellen Blattel - Preparing for a verdict under the glaring lights of the media is critical for highly visible...

SAN FRANCISCO - China has state-of-the-art patent rules and is furiously cracking down on infringers. Preposterous? Not accor...

A former Central Freight Lines Inc. employee quit her job and checked into a county hospital for four days over the trauma she...

LOS ANGELES - Lisa Korben, a tenants' rights lawyer known for her aggressive pursuit of landlords, has died. Korben, a former...