Firms can survey clients in person, by telephone, by written questionnaire or electronically. ...

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates has awarded plaques to recent law-school graduates who excell...

The California Supreme Court has held that prenuptial agreements waiving spousal support are no longer automatically unenforce...

A recent study of incoming Harvard Law School students found that 80 percent expressed an interest in doing public interest wo...

Mandatory arbitration has been a cancer in our system of justice. Instead of removing the cancer, the Supreme Court in Armenda...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors have announced they will retry two former Cal Micro Devices executives on charges of consp...

SAN DIEGO - Four years ago, District Attorney Paul Pfingst called a meeting of state prosecutors along the Mexican border conc...

The ranks of current and former Los Angeles police officers involved as plaintiffs in a $100 million "whistle-blower" lawsuit ...

DENVER - The Colorado Supreme Court may not reverse itself on a controversial decision that would release hundreds of rapists ...

Paul Watford, who worked in the major frauds section of the U.S. attorney's office for the past three years, has become an app...

Top mediators, judges and advocates from around the country gathered Friday and Saturday at Pepperdine University School of La...

The state's 2nd District Court of Appeal is being asked to decide this week on the constitutionality of the rule that gives st...

Los Angeles loves poor people. Just look at the things the city and county have done for them lately. For the lucky residents ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Legislature and the governor have begun an unusual exercise this month that highlights a key debate about ...

ANAHEIM - A 69,000-member nationwide "jury" rendered its verdict over the weekend, and found in favor of an O'Melveny & My...

The recent California Supreme Court ruling in Armandariz v. Foundation Health Psycare Services that limits mandatory arbitrati...

A Los Angeles jury slapped the city with a $5.34 million reprimand Friday, finding that the first black member of the police d...

The judge presiding over the corruption trial of four Los Angeles Rampart Division officers ordered the police department on F...

A Los Angeles City Council member has taken the Police Department to task for recruiting from parts of the country that she sa...

Sunnyvale's Loudcloud Inc. has filed for an initial public offering of stock valued at $150 million. Loudcloud is an Internet ...

In some quarters, the recently defeated referendum to limit the non-Swiss portion of Switzerland's population to 18 percent ra...

Two Internet greeting card companies with nearly identical monikers have settled their legal disputes, with the firm that los...

In what could be the understatement of the year, McKenna & Cuneo 's San Diego managing partner and litigation group head, ...

San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro recently brought aboard two tax partners, Victor Penico and Keith Gercken. The f...

Representing the father-and-son team of Jefferson and Donald Christal in the sale of their indoor tanning products company tur...

Many midsize firms are closing their doors or giving up the ghost in mergers with larger firms. Some blame it on a hostile eco...

Important evidentiary protections exist for sexual-assault victims pursuing civil lawsuits. ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. will acquire Cobalt Networks Inc. in a stock-for-stock merger valued at $2 billion. Palo Alto-based Sun ...

Schuler Homes Inc. has announced that it will merge with privately held Western Pacific Housing. The combined company will hav...

California Tan Inc. has bought California SunCare Inc. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Los Angeles' California Tan,...