LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles appellate court has reversed a $6 million punitive damage award against a vehicle parts manufactu...

WASHINGTON - Dealing a multi-billion dollar blow to the federal government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Federa...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday asked defense attorneys representing 2,000 Southland auto mechanic...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Michael A. Jacobs and William I. Schwartz started Morrison & Foerster's intellectual property group ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Contrary to appearances that a grand jury convening today may examine a high-level police cover-up, District ...

Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - Earlier this month, opening briefs were filed in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bolling...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court breathed new life Monday into a suit claiming that a San Diego area prison cheated not on...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that lawmakers hope will satisfy the courts and restore power to the California Coastal Commission too...

SANTA ANA - Carl Holmes cracks a smile as he recalls the sign that the end was near. One morning, Holmes took a quick glance ...

SAN JOSE - By accepting civil commitment at Atascadero State Hospital, a habitual child molester who had himself surgically c...

WASHINGTON - Dealing a multi-billion dollar blow to the federal government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Federal...

San Francisco's Gordon & Rees ended 2002 with the acquisition of Colin H. Murray as a partner from the San Diego office o...

The Pleasanton office of Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel has acquired another land use attorney for its growing practice ther...

By Liz Valsamis John C. "Jack" McBride is returning to Los Angeles after spending five years in New York as the general couns...

Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers has added two telecommunications partners to its Washington, D.C., office, the firm announ...

By Toni Vranjes Pharmaceutical distributor AmerisourceBergen Corp. has purchased Solana Beach's Bridge Medical Inc., which ma...

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY By Miriam Beezy and Herb Williams It's happening across many industries. You've probably seen the ads -...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Academy Award winning screenwriter Nancy E. Dowd knows how to tell a good story. But when she claimed at a...

Michael Oleinik jumped at the chance to be a partner in the Los Angeles office of Chicago's McDermott, Will & Emery, join...

By Erik Cummins Dechert's newest office is small and focused. Unlike some firms that open offices with large groups represent...

By Stefanie Knapp There's a tradition that the president of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel must uphold...

By Erik Cummins Reed Smith Crosby Heafey chose a Crosby Heafey lifer and a former law firm managing partner as the leaders of...

By Liz Valsamis The day after Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton hooked four entertainment partners from Ak...

By Liz Valsamis Bryan Cave appointed Jeffrey W. Morof as the new managing partner of the St. Louis-based firm's Santa Monica ...

By Toni Vranjes Trizec Properties Inc., a Chicago-based real estate investment trust, has sold the posh Paseo Colorado shoppi...

By Joan Osterwalder A Hooters corporate Christmas party was no joyous celebration for a San Diego security guard. Evan Johnso...

By John Ryan John Quinn was pretty happy with how things were going in 1988. The four-attorney trial shop he founded two year...

By Toni Vranjes The parent company of high-end toy retailer FAO Schwarz tapped a Los Angeles bankruptcy boutique to handle it...

The National Association for Law Placement Inc., known through the legal community as NALP, has hired a new executive directo...

Washington, D.C.'s Piper Rudnick has added real estate attorney Rick Wendy to its Chicago office, the firm announced Jan. 14....