Construction-materials company Hanson is building a bigger business. The London company has agreed to buy Better Materials Cor...

Leticia Mendez and Robert Torres met in flight school at Glendale Community College in the summer of 2000. They dated for a ye...

Investors have pumped $10 million into Arzoon Inc., a manufacturer of trade and transportation software. New investors Redrock...

Daniel Nixon still is getting used to the view from the 39th floor of his Bunker Hill office building. From his perch, Nixon c...

In a recent trial in Los Angeles, jurors literally fell asleep until the defense presented a spectacular multimedia demonstrat...

A seven-decade water rights dispute may have reached an end with a tentative settlement between three Southern California wate...

Bob Dobalina broke up with his girlfriend, Alison Smithers, recently at a local high school. Smithers was quite crushed, but D...

It's a tough time to be an in-house lawyer. A new survey has found that strict new corporate-reform laws and the high costs of...

Eduardo Roy says the motivation for leaving Arter & Hadden as a partner after 2 1/2 years was the need for a Palo Alto off...

Who controls the arbitration process? By ceding control to the arbitrator, counsel relinquishes a valuable benefit conferred b...

Representing security and alarm companies is becoming an increasingly national practice as smaller, regional companies merge, ...

The Los Angeles Women's Foundation has found the perfect fund-raising platform: the catwalk. Take champagne, roses and a black...

After swelling from five lawyers to 31 since 2001, Piper Rudnick's Los Angeles office has bigger goals in mind for the coming ...

Focus Column - Franchise Law - By Mitchell S. Shapiro - The issue of the ability of a franchisor to obtain damages equivalent ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco meets Houston as an Enron prosecutor with Bay Area ties confronts local criminal defense lawyers...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County Superior Court judge, in a recent dispute between an Oakland man and his broker over investm...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Sunday for Bruce E. Goldberg, a Los Angeles civil litigator. Goldberg died Thursday at ...

LOS ANGELES - After 83-year-old Lucille Jones' home was sold, her attorney, Bruce A. Nahin, deposited $179,913 of the proceeds...

LOS ANGELES - For the second time in 10 years, the central figure in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los...

BREA - Attorney Steven Paul Coleman has been convicted of embezzling $184,000 from the Orange County law firm where he once wo...

SACRAMENTO - A sweet lady, described as a "doll" by a social worker, was 80 years old when her neighbor sold her two deferred ...

LOS ANGELES - Michael L. Benov has been the warden of Los Angeles' federal Metropolitan Detention Center for less than a month...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some court clerks in San Francisco want to stop paying union dues and are calling for an election to change u...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - In the law as in life, how an issue is characterized often dictates how it ...

Employment Column - By Deanna Wilkinson - Think back to law school. During your first or second summer, you probably had a sum...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento County cell phone service salesman has instigated a class action against Verizon Wireless Servic...

LOS ANGELES - Charles D. Stein, a former general counsel of Carpetland U.S.A., has died. Stein died of Parkinson's disease Apr...

SAN DIEGO - The American Civil Liberties Union sued a private Orange County agency Thursday, claiming that the organization ba...

LOS ANGELES - A popular home goods retailer may have to stop asking customers for their phone numbers when they pay with credi...

SAN FRANCISCO - George Steffes, a potent figure on the Sacramento political scene for more than 30 years, has merged his lobby...