Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - It is a strange and troubling time in Los Angeles Lawyerland, the legal theme park wher...

SAN FRANCISCO - Explanations for the vanishing trial abound. Judges, lawyers and professors report that state and federal cour...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to seize a share of punitive damages awards may net as little as $60 million fo...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Phillip R. Maltin and Jerry Balk - The personalities of certain prospective jurors make for esp...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - In caring for 30,000 children, Los Angeles is home to one of the largest foster-care ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $2.25 million jury award to Beverly Hills attorney and businessman Leonar...

LOS ANGELES - Jurors didn't have all the facts when they hit attorney Milton Grimes with a $1.25 million legal malpractice jud...

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police officers don't necessarily have to take into account a ...

LOS ANGELES - Litigants who submit evidence for mediation may not be able to keep the information secret later unless they pre...

LOS ANGELES - In a published opinion, the 2nd District Court of Appeals has ruled that the protections afforded under the Stra...

SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest chicken producer will have to defend calling its food "all natural," as a result of a stat...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors leaked information about a grand-jury investigation into civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman's tax af...

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...