Corixa Corp. has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of Coulter Pharmaceutical Inc. The deal is valued in excess of $900 ...

California law firms are counting up their annual meeting ballots, and naming new partners by the scores. Now is also the time...

While young lawyers may be adept at legal subjects, they are showing a decline in general knowledge. ...

One hundred million dollars a year in state funds may seem like a lot of money, especially when it took two lawsuits and 20 ye...

The widespread backlash against the Boy Scouts of America has vindicated his 10-year legal battle, a former New Jersey scoutma...

A bogus report of a man aiming a rifle at a group of school children Friday morning marred a county event to kick off a new pr...

It makes business sense to encourage accessibility, for then a whole additional segment of the population can have access to t...

WASHINGTON - Over a 31-year period, Andre Brigham Young has been convicted of six violent rapes. He was released from prison a...

SAN DIEGO - An American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit contends that the Boy Scouts shouldn't be allowed to lease public land b...

TUSCON, Ariz. - When Tucson attorney John Messing admits to being "heavily involved in something called XML," it may sound lik...

Flashbacks and nightmares of a brutal and traumatic childhood began intruding on the present when Donna Friess, a community co...

One confirmed and two suspected cases of Legionnaires' disease have been reported among county employees working in a Wilshire...

Stuart Eppsteiner of Solana Beach's Eppsteiner & Associates is tired of insurance companies calling the shots. He says tha...

BigVine.com Inc. and SmallBusiness.com. have combined operations, creating a new Internet company targeting small businesses. ...

The law, like baseball, is a game of inches and tradition. In the case of Robert Earl Olmsted, it was just 1/32 of an inch an...

The Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice recently honored retired Rep. Edward R. Roybal for his fight against discrimination...

WASHINGTON - Congress has urged the Department of Interior to settle the massive class action filed four years ago by hundreds...

In product liability litigation, jurors are not just jurors - they are also consumers with expectations about a manufacturer's...

Daniel Petrocelli, high-profile litigator of O.J. Simpson civil-suit fame, expressed a mixture of sadness and excitement yeste...

The day Joseph Coyne Jr. got into the restaurant business 13 years ago to help a friend from France, the stock market took its...

San Jose's Skjerven Morrill MacPherson has acquired three partners from a San Francisco intellectual property firm that expect...

Lawyers are often confused about the identity of the person who really runs the courtroom. It is not they or the judge. It's ...

The California Supreme Court recently proved the old adage that "hard cases make bad law." In Johnson v. Superior Court, 80 Ca...

The way Joel Kozberg sees it, a federal court ruling on behalf of his clients charging fraudulent misrepresentation against a ...

Witness preparation can have a therapeutic effect because fears are addressed and the judicial process is demystified. ...

One of the longest trials in Santa Monica history and one of the largest fraud cases in American business formed the backdrop ...

Federal judges and other members of the bar paid tribute earlier this week to the late Judge David W. Williams, the first blac...

Cleveland-based Squire Sanders & Dempsey has lost its prestigious Korean practice to Chicago-based Sidley & Austin, as...

It started as a routine domestic violence case. But while out on $15,000 bail, police said, Curtis Edward Smith kidnapped his ...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Thursday temporarily halted evidentiary hearings scheduled for Monday that were to probe t...