Graham & James has reached an agreement to merge with Squire Sanders & Dempsey, creating an international firm with mo...

SAN DIEGO - A judge has ordered an in camera review of a San Diego Union-Tribune reporter's notes of a jailhouse interview wit...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday unanimously confirmed San Francisco U.S. Magistrate Judge Phyllis Hamilton as a U.S....

Practitioner: Employment Law By William F. Murphy and Mark J. Rogers The "continuing violation" doctrine has long been a sourc...

If Los Angeles didn't have a criminal history, it wouldn't have a history at all. No other city in America, maybe in the unive...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sirhan Sirhan lost another round Wednesday in his ongoing quest for exoneration for the 1968 Los Angeles assas...

Dicta: Speak Easy By Charan Levitan People make judgements about you based on your English usage. Being aware of how you're us...

SAN BERNARDINO - After a decade-long absence from the San Bernardino public defender's office, John E. Roth, a criminal defens...

A former associate at Strook & Strook & Levan has been awarded $500,000 in damages by a Los Angeles Superior Court jur...

Forum: By Brian Panish Isuzu's misleading claims of victory ring hollow in the face of facts. When the Trooper performed badly...

Forum: By Fred Silberberg Trends are not something limited to fashion. They occur in all aspects of our lives, including the l...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge declined Wednesday to wipe out a $21.7 million verdict against the nation's biggest toba...

Practitioner: Employment Law By Jennifer N. Lehman Attorneys are all keenly aware of how judicial decisions affect employers a...

On the Move: Bolstering its intellectual property practice, Newport Beach-based Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth has recrui...

Assistant Presiding Judge James A. Bascue said he would be willing to revisit the process that yielded secret raises for a sel...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti's administration is pressuring prosecutor Michael Kraut to change his conclu...

WASHINGTON-The federal judge presiding over the antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. dealt the software giant a stunning blo...

The Los Angeles County district attorney has concluded that there is sufficient evidence that at least 28 Los Angeles Police D...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge Tuesday refused to halt or delay a process currently underway that could lea...

Forum: Attorney Action By Elaine Michetti Rosemary Nelson, a 40-year-old lawyer, human-rights advocate and mother of three chi...

Forum: By Allonn E. Levy In a free and innovative society, there is a constant, productive drive to improve - to build a bette...

SAN DIEGO - Saying that San Diego ranked fourth in the nation in fatal police shootings in the years 1990-1998, four organizat...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County woman who bills herself as a model and a professional actress has sued the World Wrestling Federa...

By Louis M. Meisinger, Kenneth W. Oder, John A. Schulman and David A. Swartz The gold rush of today's New Economy, with its in...

SAN DIEGO - In a case that led to an ongoing criminal investigation of a deputy district attorney, a lawyer for a defendant ch...

Practitioner: Alternative Dispute Resolution By Richard Luesebrink The California Supreme Court recently reaffirmed its strong...

It was time, at last, for thinking big thoughts. After 21/2 years of dismantling and reconstructing the State Bar of Californi...

An $851,000 civil judgment awarded to nine people who were inside a house mistakenly targeted in a 1997 Los Angeles Police Dep...

Prominent litigator Larry Feldman will talk about "High profile litigation: How to maintain civility, professionalism and ethi...

San Diego Watch: Superior Court Judge Wesley Mason is the new supervising judge of f amily c ourt, succeeding Gerald Barry , w...