LOS ANGELES - Several of those who filed sexual abuse lawsuits last year against Los Angeles Archdiocese for child molestation...

RIVERSIDE - It took eight years, five defense attorneys, three prosecutors and 130 continuances for Anthony Williams to finall...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent patent litigator Jeffrey G. Randall, head of Cooley Godward's intellectual property practice, is lea...

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles Times reporter filed suit against Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano, a Los A...

LOS ANGELES - Depending on the circles in which Kathryn Doi Todd is traveling, she's either a 2nd District Court of Appeal jus...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - When the state Commission on Judicial Performance ordered the removal of San Joaquin Superior Cou...

LOS ANGELES - Martha Jordan, managing partner of Latham & Watkins' Los Angeles headquarters, is handing the reins to tax p...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's new mayor unveiled his first budget Tuesday, proposing to give the district attorney, public d...

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that service station owners can sue Texaco Inc. and the Shell Oil Co. in an attempt to p...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco struck down the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 Tuesday, saying the la...

State Assemblywoman Carol Liu, D-Pasadena, and her husband, Michael Peevey, have sued embattled accounting firm Arthur Anderse...

When President Bush this month outlawed trade with Syria, he created a flurry of work for the small bar of Washington, D.C., l...

Column - Adviser - By Kirk Pasich - The following tips should make trials go more smoothly: • Remember that motions in limine ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $425,000 to a child, Ronald C., who was molested by his foster father. The panel,...

LOS ANGELES - On his 90th birthday in March, Aaron Ruben, a longtime children's advocate, asked for just one thing: another ab...

SAN FRANCISCO - The ranks of lawyers are growing. More money is spent on legal services. More legal publications are published...

Pittsburgh-based Reed Smith has tapped John Zaimes to establish the firm's labor and employment practice group in Los Angeles....

Marjorie Fochtman says her clients wanted her to provide a broader range of services than she could at Littler Mendelson, an e...

The city of Santa Monica initially praised a multimillion dollar settlement reached with oil companies to clean up the contami...

Hollywood's famous and powerful piled into the Beverly Hills Hotel last month to mix, mingle and watch Alschuler Grossman Stei...

Column - Law Practice Management - By Arnold Kelser - Since the percentage of rainmakers is low in most medium and large law f...

Customers pushing a shopping cart through the poultry section of Whole Foods or Trader Joe's might notice something missing if...

From Day One, John Gartman has been a success at firm recruitment. Fish & Richardson tapped the intellectual property liti...

When veteran employment attorney Elizabeth Salveson left Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin earlier this year...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jury selection is set to begin today in what a Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer said is the first civ...

In the boxing ring, Rocky Balboa faced sleek champions such as the towering wrestler Thunderlips and Russian powerhouse Ivan D...

Two themes dominated the Constitutional Rights Foundation's recent spring dinner: the need for continued vigilance to maintain...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Speaking about a city's homicide statistics in the abstract is perhaps macabre. Each new...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - The state Supreme Court recently issued a landmark opi...

Focus Column -Business Law - By Larry Watts - Many businesses distrust the jury system for complex business cases. They're par...