LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Councilman and city attorney candidate Mike Feuer announced Wednesday that he has added the uni...
Whether you are a litigator or a transactional attorney, negotiation of disagreements is a part of your everyday business life...
LOS ANGELES - After a year of unprecedented growth in which northern California firms outpaced their Southland counterparts, t...
LOS ANGELES - The long arm of California law just got longer in legal malpractice cases as a result of a state appellate court...
The legal standards by which today's custodial arrangements are derived have their roots in law created over 40 years ago. Soc...
SAN FRANCISCO - One month after a grand jury indicted lawyers Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller in the dog attack death of thei...
SANTA ANA - The attorney general's office has turned down a defense attorney's request to investigate Orange County Supervisor...
SAN DIEGO - A veteran deputy prosecutor has sued his boss, District Attorney Paul Pfingst, alleging Pfingst retaliated against...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County woman who faced allegations five years ago that she ran an international baby-selling ring has be...
LOS ANGELES - Note to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan: Forget the consumer price index, the unemployment rate or the a...
SANTA ANA - Orange County bankruptcy attorney Heidi Knapp Leanders, known for her devotion to her work and her children, has d...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city's newest mega-firm, Pillsbury Winthrop, celebrated its first 100 days by sending cakes to more than 2...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review a lower court ruling that found unconstitutional a key...
Judges and Judiciary
Changes on the Bench: An Appointment and a Resignation
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - John A. Mendez, who served a brief but controversial stint as U.S. Attorney in San Francisco and has extensive...
LOS ANGELES - A former employee of the Screen Actors Guild has filed a lawsuit against the organization alleging racial discri...
Appellate Practice
Thousands-Year-Old Man Spends Eternity in Litigation
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Although he died thousands of years before the Egyptians built the pyramids, the ancient American known as Kenne...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Magistrate Judge Edward A. Infante, who recently brokered a settlement in the 3Com securities class acti...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Coastal Commission, a unique state agency which for a quarter-century has controlled developmen...
The American Management Association found that 27 percent of all major American businesses monitored e-mail.
LOS ANGELES - In a victory for consumers, a state appeals court has ruled that even a truck registered to a dead guy is eligib...
Four of us sit in a small, barred, screened and Plexiglas-encased room this morning, on plastic chairs around a child-sized ta...
The booming economy of the late 1990s saw an unprecedented number of attorneys jumping from one law firm to another as they ai...
Although Linda Miller Savitt frequently defends men accused of sexual misconduct in the workplace, she dismisses the suggestio...
LOS ANGELES - Chicago's Sidley & Austin and New York's Brown & Wood announced Tuesday that the firms have merged to be...
In the "he said-she said" world of sexual harassment, written documentation is critical. That explains attorney Linda Miller S...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has been honored by the National Organization to Reform the Marijuana Laws ...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge Tuesday lambasted the Los Angeles city attorney's office for ignoring her order to show u...
LOS ANGELES - A gardener convicted of raping a Los Angeles attorney will not get a new trial nor a reduction in his 155-year s...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge will allow television cameras in the trial of alleged Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sar...
Speed is everything to neutral Natt Portugal. He became adept at gathering and disseminating information quickly, a skill indi...