It's easy to find Joseph R. Taylor in the crowded Brentwood restaurant Toscana. He's the tall, youthful-looking diner with a g...

Editor's Note: The reality-based TV show "Survivor" puts average people through physical and mental challenges that border on ...

Recently, Walnut Creek lawyers Kenneth Ward and Linda Wyner defended a veterinarian who was sued for malpractice. The case was...

Latham & Watkins is the largest of two California law firms named among the world's best by Chambers & Partners, a Lon...

Michael Miller, co-founder of Beverly Hills' Sherman Nathanson & Miller, has moved to Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan...

Despite the recent high-tech slump, entertainment companies still are scrambling to find ways to take advantage of the Interne...

California lawyers, beware. Mandatory pro bono is fast approaching. AB913, if enacted, would require law firms that contract w...

LOS ANGELES - Since taking the American Bar Association's "Pro Bono Challenge" in 1998, Latham & Watkins has doubled its f...

Toyota Motor Credit Corp. has issued $414 million in notes due 2008. The global offering closed simultaneously in London and ...

Hollywood Reporter society columnist George Christy is the journalistic king of kickbacks. The gangsta of graft. The sultan of...

LOS ANGELES - On July 10, 1998, a 13-year-old middle-school student left her summer school classes in Compton and headed to th...

Patent practitioner Karen Dow has left Silicon Valley's intellectual property scene for a partnership spot at Morrison & F...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy case has been described as the biggest utility bankruptcy in U.S. ...

SAN DIEGO - The city of San Diego charges an illegal fee to review disputed parking citations and has withheld more than $1 mi...

LOS ANGELES - Irvine-based Kring & Brown has refreshed its wilting San Diego outpost with the addition of returning partne...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has revived a $10 million racial discrimination lawsuit against the University of Califo...

SANTA ANA - The case of two people who were caught issuing and redeeming more than $15 million worth of counterfeit stock shou...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles criminal defense attorney is accusing the Superior Court's North Central district of discriminati...

SANTA BARBARA - A Boy Scout executive who was fired after revealing he is a homosexual has settled his discrimination lawsuit ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Truck drivers spied on by their employer using hidden cameras and microphones in terminal restrooms have won t...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Franciscans want a city attorney who is, above all else, impartial. They don't much care if he or she has ...

LOS ANGELES - Bruce Babbitt is not someone who is at a loss for words on compelling topics. So attendees at Public Counsel's 2...

SAN JOSE - By reaching a deal last month in the Avant trade secrets case that will put several perpetrators behind bars, Santa...

LOS ANGELES - A discovery referee dunned the Los Angeles Unified School District five times for a total of about $75,000 for a...

LOS ANGELES - Give Jack Walker a chance to tout his law firm's enduring commitment to pro bono work, and he's not likely to gi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yanking the heart out of a products liability suit against the maker of an allegedly faulty pacemaker, a divid...

LOS ANGELES - Alex Sanchez, the gangbanger turned peacemaker who made headlines when he faced deportation stemming from a Ramp...

LOS ANGELES - Owen Joseph Brady, a Pasadena lawyer whose Jesuit education guided his 50 years of practice, died of heart failu...

People become lawyers because they like to win. And as lawyers, they can delude themselves into seeing everything as a win-win...

Superior Court Judge Charles C. Kobayashi's May 8 ruling in Marine Forests Society v. California Coastal Commission, 00...