Firm Watch: Andrea Sheridan Ordin, a partner at Los Angeles' Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, often jokes that she entered private...

Elder Law There's nothing worse than false promises, at least according to Prescott Cole, advocate for the elderly. ...

Forum: For the People By Jeffrey A. Lowe In recent years, reports of babies abandoned in trash bins, restrooms and parking lot...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court judges adopted a resolution Friday approving a merger between the Orange County Marsh...

The Closer: By Jeffrey Krivis Every day, I meet with people and try to sort through their conflicts in order to achieve some m...

Deals: Corporate attorney Patrick Seaver has proven that oil and water do mix. ...

Deals: Santa Clara's Palm Inc., maker of handheld wireless organizer Palm Pilot and Palm VII, has acquired Cambridge, Mass.,-b...

Deals: California Pizza Kitchen, based in Los Angeles, will serve up an initial public offering worth an estimated $70 million...

On the Move: About 120 lawyers from Battle Fowler's New York office have joined Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker's office t...

Firm Watch: San Francisco and New York-based Thelen Reid & Priest has acquired San Francisco's Britton Silberman & Cer...

On the Move: Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has chosen its first female managing partner - corporate and sec...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 1998 change in state law that allows personal injury suits against tobacco companies for smoking-related i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Reasserting the importance of independent environmental review, a federal appellate court has blocked resumpti...

More than eight months after the Rampart scandal came to light, blame continues to be cast on many in Los Angeles government w...

Dicta: By John Hilbert California attorneys may not be aware that rates for official transcripts of courtroom proceedings are ...

At Issue: By Deborah Rosenthal In order to curb litigation against employers for on-the-job injuries, California enacted a sys...

Seeking to qualify, for a possible death penalty, the 18-year-old reputed gang member charged with murdering the granddaughter...

Practitioner: Environmental Law By William D. Wick A California Court of Appeal last month upheld the state's listing of vario...

Tony Alvarado, a reformed gang member who faces deportation stemming from a 10-year-old crime he claims he didn't commit, has ...

COSTA MESA - Orange County's Public Law Center was awarded a check of $6,000 Wednesday night at the Association of Business Tr...

ADR Profile: By Rebecca Kuzins Eliot Disner has obtained multi million dollar verdicts in antitrust and business litigation an...

Keys to Victory: By Kelly E. Lee Dominic Surprenant, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges in Los Angeles, w...

Forum: By Mike Farrell Gov. Gray Davis has turned a deaf ear to Cardinal Roger Mahony. Like Gov. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshi...

Litigator Profile: By Deborah Rosenthal Peter A. Saporito has run the gamut of jobs representing transportation entities in So...

On the Move: The Los Angeles office of New York-based Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy will get a new West Coast litigation h...

Opinion: By Steve Cerveris Tired of mediation rhetoric about cooperation, win-win, empathetic listening, non confrontational c...

Placing a metal detector at the public entrance of a courtroom during a multiple-murder trial is not prejudicial to the defend...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judges: If you're going to cite attorneys for contempt of court, be sure to warn them first. ...

Forum: Justice For All By Tom Weathered One of the unintended consequences of welfare reform has been an increase in the numbe...

Two more people convicted because of alleged misconduct by rogue Rampart Division police officers have filed federal civil rig...