LOS ANGELES - For Greg Jordan, firmwide managing partner for Reed Smith, two of the most important goals for the Pittsburgh-b...

LOS ANGELES - A probate lawyer main duty is to his client, not to the beneficiaries of any wills he writes, a state appellate...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge will decide in the next week whether prosecutors can present evidence linking accused SUV-firebo...

LOS ANGELES - The juvenile-delinquency court has been called everything from a revolving door to the unwanted stepchild of the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Francisco appellate specialist Paul Fogel has been appointed to the California Judicial Council's ...

SACRAMENTO - A slew of television ads by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a sharp turnaround in the polls have prosecutors belie...

SAN FRANCISCO - A small Southern California company has sued Coudert Bros., claiming the global law firm failed to properly pu...

LOS ANGELES - After a career as one of Los Angeles County's highest-profile prosecutors, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mic...

WASHINGTON - Given the Supreme Court's historic and still-controversial role in determining the outcome of the 2000 presidenti...

SACRAMENTO - Judge Consuelo M. Callahan of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tap dances around the law - literally. A hoo...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The final days of the 2004 presidential campaign resembled an especially weird and menacing episode...

LOS ANGELES - Not long ago, Amr I. Elgindy or, as he was known in his high-flying millionaire days, "Tony Elgindy" or "Anthon...

By Erik Cummins As deputy city attorney and senior real estate counsel to the Port of San Francisco, Neil Sekhri helped trans...

The numbers are shrinking, but Los Angeles' law firm hierarchy remains at least somewhat in tact. O'Melveny & Myers, which...

By Draeger Martinez Southland resident Richard Vass has sued Power Chevrolet of El Monte and a former male co-worker at the d...

SAN JOSE - Two engineers face charges of trade secrets theft and economic espionage in what is expected to be first case to g...

By Yamina Washington Public-agency attorney Martin Fine recently joined Best Best & Krieger as a member of the school law...

By Lorelei Laird Intellectual property and technology boutique Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich might once have been consider...

Closer Column - By Noelle C. Nelson - For good or for ill, the way jurors view trials in the courtroom has been forever altere...

INDUSTRIAL VISTA - The Roxanne D. Greene Trust has purchased a 24,526-square-foot industrial building located at 1281 Liberty ...

By Kenneth Davis Despite his self-proclaimed lackluster performance at the school, top litigator Thomas Girardi recently gave...

SAN FRANCISCO - Though an appeals court Friday upheld two former prison guards' conviction for conspiring to solicit inmate a...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda California Native American tribes are learning that more money really does mean more problems. Tribes have...

By Tina Spee In an effort to increase its Los Angeles intellectual property capabilities, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld ...

By Draeger Martinez When Michelle Cochran began working at the Together of San Fernando Valley dating service in 2000, she qu...

By Tina Spee Migrants from deep in the heart of Mexico and members of California Rural Legal Assistance Inc. gathered for a re...

By Amy K. Spees The state Board of Prison Terms no longer can use an inmate's lack of participation in faith-based substance-...

By Tina Spee In search of a "saner lifestyle," longtime Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan attorney John A. Schwimmer packe...

By Tina Spee Steven J. Olson has become the latest U.S. attorney's office alum to jump ship to Los Angeles' O'Melveny & M...

By Lorelei Laird Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw may be an international giant, but its expansion to Orange County in October wa...