LOS ANGELES -A state appellate court reversed a nearly $10 million award against Allstate Insurance Co. on Monday because the ...

SAN DIEGO - Lawrence D. Lee Jr., one of the founding faculty members at California Western School of Law, has died at his Carl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Silver, Monterey County's longest-serving superior court judge, has retired after 25 years on the benc...

SACRAMENTO - Duress cannot be a defense to murder, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that reaffirms a traditional...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for tenants rights advocates, California's civil rights enforcement agency won permission Monday ...

SAN DIEGO - Linda Hills likes visual reminders. A framed photograph of the March on Washington in 1963, when Martin Luther Kin...

LOS ANGELES - A Rancho Cucamonga family lawyer who threatened last year to "descend like a herd of buffaloes" on a former clie...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury has socked a large commercial bank with a $9 million fraud verdict that could signal a n...

Dicta Column - By Robin Gerber - Every law firm's worst nightmare is being played out in the news pages of legal newspapers an...

Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick - Welcome to the age of corporate enlightenment, where new levels of stockholder and journ...

Forum Column - By Lawrence J. Fox - While lawyers have watched their 401(k) accounts sink to levels that will keep all of us w...

Focus Column - By Robert W. Wood - If you receive payment from a client, will you receive an Internal Revenue Service 1099 for...

Column by Garry Abrams -The winds of change are blowing a lot of dope smoke lately. From California to Nevada to Washington, D...

O'Melveny & Myers is only 159 attorneys shy of reaching the 1,000-attorney mark, thanks to its recent acquisition of 88-la...

Partner Adam Sachs and associate Mary King of San Francisco' Folger Levin & Kahn represented two nonprofit organizations t...

Patrick Cathcart, whose practice often focuses on insurance coverage litigation or professional liability, has proved he can s...

Column by Jill Fannin - A significant portion of most mediations is spent "in caucus," with the mediator talking privately wit...

Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy has named Allan Jergesen, Patrick Glenn and Lawrence Cirelli the leaders of its 12...

Richard A. Derevan, a partner at Irvine's Snell & Wilmer, recently became a member of the exclusive American Academy of Ap...

Christian L. Castle joined Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld as senior counsel in its Los Angeles music practice July 15. ...

There were no fireworks on July 5 when actor Jennifer Aniston, 33, settled her lawsuit against the publishers of two magazines...

With 50 attorneys from San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, London's Clifford, Chance, Rogers & Wells open...

Column by Bill McDonald - It is time for you to file your mediation brief. Assume there have been no negotiations on financial...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge William D. Mudd saw the first signs of trouble with the media at the beginning of April. That...

Guillermina Byrne, a Los Angeles Superior Court referee, once again is facing a runoff for a court commissioner seat, this tim...

Project development and finance lawyer Charles E. Schwenck has plugged into Kaye Scholer's Los Angeles office, where he repres...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline A. Connor, who presided over the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart corruptio...

On the heels of a victory on behalf of a death row inmate, Douglas R. Young, a partner at San Francisco's Farella Braun & ...

Column by Robert Steinberg - Did you ever wonder what running a company has in common with being a lawyer? After 11 years as a...

The month of July brought two new faces to Pillsbury Winthrop's Southern California offices. On July 15, land use attorney Chr...