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The U.S. government's walkout at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intoleranc...

INDIO - Retired Riverside Superior Court Judge Jerome E. Stevenson, who sat in Indio and traveled on assignment for two decade...

LOS ANGELES - Corporate attorney Craig Andrews has joined the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins, a move that industry a...

As human cloning technology develops, so does the debate on whether it should continue or be banned. While scientists, medical...

LOS ANGELES - Dallas' Akin, Gump, Straus, Hauer & Feld is nursing its wounds after the chairman of its West Coast health c...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would grant new legal rights to registered domestic partners, including the ability to sue for wrongf...

SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission adopted regulations Monday allowing incumbent legislators to raise ...

SAN FRANCISCO - There were no questions from the bench Monday about bullying of school kids, but Los Angeles power firm O'Melv...

ANAHEIM - Old wounds inflicted by the State Bar's financial crisis showed up again last week during the bar's annual meeting a...

Defense attorneys say they plan to grill Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dan T. Oki tonight on the effects they fear the cour...

WASHINGTON - "The hard fact is that sometimes we must make decisions we do not like. We make them because they are right, righ...

Onanism. Artificial insemination. Life in prison. Last week's unprecedented 2-1 decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judicial panel will decide today whether to continue tracking Internet sites visited by federal cour...

SAN FRANCISCO - With clients like these, who needs opposing counsel? In 1999, the Walnut Creek firm of Bowles & Verna secu...

The FBI has brought itself into disrepute and disgrace. Yet it continues to screen federal judicial nominees in the face of th...

No case has identified the right to relocate at such an early stage or tilted the burden in favor of the parent with whom the ...

SANTA ANA - Reversing his earlier decision, an Orange County judge ruled Friday that California's Smoke Free Workplace Act for...

Three Los Angeles firms and one Bay Area firm graced the top 20 list compiled by Corporate Board Member magazine, which ranked...

A seemingly innocuous amendment to an intelligence appropriations authorization bill that will be introduced this month in the...

Nothing can divide a work group, drag down productivity and destroy a professional environment like an unresolved employee dis...

As Californians crank up their air conditioners, blackouts loom over the heads of the state's employers - at least for several...

Cupertino-based Kanisa Inc. has secured $30 million in series E financing. Palo Alto's Meritech Capital Partners was the lead ...

After spending two years at startups, Michael J. Changaris is returning to private practice - armed with newfound insight. "I ...

San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has promoted Michael Bacon to partner-in-charge of its international offices...

O'Melveny & Myers has named Jack Hardy , a transactions partner in the firm's Los Angeles office, co-chair of the capital ...

When an attorney represents a small company being acquired by a larger corporation, often that transaction marks the last time...

Lamb chops, garlic shrimp and fajitas offered the perfect accompaniment to the array of wines available for tasting at the Leg...

Nippon Suisan Inc. of Tokyo has agreed to purchase London Unilever, N.V.'s North American seafood operation, which comprises t...

August was a busy month for Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips: A rash of lateral hires brought in three partners and o...