SAN FRANCISCO - Court-awarded attorney's fees belong to the lawyer, not the litigant, even if the lawyer fails to secure a wri...

SAN FRANCISCO - Campus security is so important that underage students can be detained and questioned outside of class even if...

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LOS ANGELES - Admitting he erred in denying an earlier mistrial motion, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge granted a new trial...

LOS ANGELES - Tom Forsythe is free to serve Barbie enchiladas again. A federal judge ruled Friday that the 43-year-old Utah ar...

In his seminal tome, "California Judicial Conduct Handbook" (2d ed. 1999), Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David M. Rothman w...

Prosecutors now can be sued civilly. It widely was believed that criminal defendants couldn't turn around and sue prosecutors ...

LOS ANGELES - Are the inmates running the asylum? Sure, the uproar over Internet monitoring at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...

Santa Monica's Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif welcomed three new attorneys into the fold earlier this month, inc...

Everyone who's played Monopoly knows the satisfaction of buying a hotel. But for Mark Weinstock, few things are as professiona...

Eleven years ago, Virginia Sudbury, then the vice president of a Beverly Hills legal-recruiting firm, left on a sailing odysse...

Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. has acquired a unit of Los Angeles' Occidental Petroleum Corp. holding a 16.3 percent interest in nat...

LOS ANGELES - Real estate attorney Eric Young has joined Gordon & Rees' San Diego office as a lateral partner, the firm an...

Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner acquired four lawyers from the San Diego office of Zevnik Horton on July 1, bringing the Washi...

Dana Haviland , a litigation partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , has taken the plunge into new waters, leaving t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired appellate Justice Winslow Christian, an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Associati...

Vickie Feeman has joined San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe as a partner in its Silicon Valley office, bringing...

Last month in the case of Brown v. Gilmore , the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Virginia's moment-of-silence statute...

"His tactics often sound like movie scripts for gangster films produced in Hollywood." From Afeni Shakur v. Marion "Suge" Knig...

In an effort to reduce costs, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has offered its lawyers the chance to work part time or take unpa...

With plans to open a Munich office by year's end, Los Angeles-based Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is the most recent California f...

Once again the periodic hand-wringing about jurors not being paid adequately for their service has surfaced, this time with t...

Las Vegas' Boyd Gaming Corp. sold $200 million of eight-year senior notes last month. Deutsche Bank Alex.Brown was the placeme...

George W. Bush today has the opportunity to usher in the Hydrogen Age - the coming era of nonpolluting, limitless hydrogen fue...

San Jose's PDF Solutions Inc. began trading last month with an offering worth $62 million. Credit Suisse First Boston, Roberts...

During the week of July 5, friends and clients of the 120-lawyer Farella Braun & Martel received squooshy black hackey-sac...

London drug giant GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to sell its California drug-discovery business, Affymax Research Institute, to Af...

New York-based Dewey Ballantine bid farewell last month to four of its attorneys, who left to join the Century City headquarte...