SANTA ANA - Orange County has agreed to pay the father of a 5-year-old murder victim $375,000 to settle a civil lawsuit alleg...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Tuesday refused to reinstate a lawsuit filed by a former city employee who claimed that ...

LOS ANGELES - The San Diego office of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe scored a hat trick Tuesday with the acquisition of a...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David L. Minning believes that litigation can be a cathartic experience. "Peopl...

LOS ANGELES - Movie moguls these days are nervously awaiting a court ruling that could drastically alter the art of the Hollyw...

SACRAMENTO - One of the state's top tort reformers has accused the head of the state's plaintiffs lawyers group of pursuing a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury has hit a Connecticut chemical company with a $4.3 million asbestos verdict, and jurors m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys arguing in favor of California's tough new ethical rules for arbitrators fought an uphill battle Tue...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - The Scripps Research Institute purchased a 118,000-square-foot research-and-development building at 104...

LOS ANGELES - It was instantly clear to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alan S. Rosenfield that someone had slipped, unseen, ...

SACRAMENTO - A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that two Los Angeles sheriff's deputies were not im...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Commercial general liability insurance policies typically provide that an i...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired probate attorney Julius W. Feldman. Feldman, who practiced in Long Beach ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The largest creditors of the bankrupt Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison have objected to the firm's proposed set...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. and Austrian lawyers have filed a complaint in New York federal court demanding that Thailand, U.S. forecas...

LOS ANGELES - Civil liberties lawyers in Northern and Southern California Monday protested the alleged beating of an Iranian ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether two workers seriously injured in an Arizona copper-mini...

SANTA ANA - A woman who accused former basketball star Dennis Rodman of drugging her at his Newport Beach bar and of raping h...

LOS ANGELES - Scott Drexel, the longtime chief administrator of the State Bar Court, which hears attorney-discipline cases, w...

SAN FRANCISCO - After eight years of litigation, Old Republic Title Co. has decided to give up its legal battle with San Franc...

SANTA ANA - Bank of America has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a portion of a lawsuit filed on behalf of Vietnamese American...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the U.S. Tax Court must release secret reports written by the special tria...

SACRAMENTO - Don't blame judges in Los Angeles County for being a little antisocial these days. Their lawyer recently advised ...

SAN MATEO - Advocates of open dependency court proceedings suffered a setback Monday when a San Mateo County judge rejected a ...

INDUSTRIAL CHATSWORTH - Thibiant International Inc. signed a lease for 37,785 square feet of industrial space at 9315 Oso Ave....

Duane Morris continued its growth in San Diego on Feb. 28 when it poached three litigation partners from the San Diego office ...

Matt Kirmayer says he'd been keeping a watchful eye on Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal's venture capital and technology prac...

Southern California residents Frank and Maria Aparicio have sued Princess Cruise Lines, claiming violations ranging from assau...

Miami-based Greenberg Traurig continued its rapid expansion in California with the hire of intellectual property litigator All...

Citing its strengths in technology and Asia and praising its commitment to beefing up its corporate securities practice in Sou...