Calling new security screening systems at the downtown Los Angeles County Courthouse "a sad necessity," family law attorney R...

SAN DIEGO - While most of this city's lawyers still work downtown, several firms have staked out their future to the north in...

SAN JOSE - Claude M. Stern never intended to become a Y2K expert nor an intellectual property litigator. Nor, for that matter...

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former Los Angeles police officer who claimed his personnel records illegally were...

One of two attorneys charged in a large auto insurance fraud case has refused to surrender as promised and is now considered ...

Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Sheila B. Allen has beaten tremendous odds all her life. Leaving a large family s...

SAN DIEGO - More than 2,200 pages of grand jury testimony and documents released Tuesday reveal a San Diego mayor who at time...

Striking Out Jury Selection Has Become Responsive to Everybody's Rights A major strategic victory can be won, because raising ...

By Maier Rosenberg Attorneys routinely incur costs that will eventually be billed to the client. Most lawyers conclude that t...

MILBANK TWEED POWERS UP WITH NINE ASSOCIATES New York-based Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy added nine new associates and...

Two Masters EMPLOYMENT LAW: Workers leased from an employment agency may also be common-law employees of the recipient of the...

The Intel Corp. entered into a definitive merger agreement with Dialogic Corp. of Parsippany, N.J., on June 1. Intel will acqu...

By Stacy L. Cohen Corporate lawyers have a news flash for outside counsel: If you want to get business from them, forget the ...

^^Professional Responsibility^^ Prove It! Malpractice Plaintiffs Must Show More Than 'Settler's Remorse' The court relied on ...

In law it is a good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot. Abraham Linco...

SAN FRANCISCO - A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives is probing whether the plan to privatize Internet Web site r...

Dealmaker: Richard A. Strong of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. On Memorial Day weekend, Richard A. Strong wasn't enjoying a fami...

After a full day of courtroom combat, toxic tort specialist Richard Giller often finds himself facing a different kind of bat...

By Mark B. Vezzani Experienced attorneys know knowledge of the law does not ensure a win. On balance, facts win lawsuits and ...

VENTURA - A Ventura civil attorney has filed an anti-SLAPP motion against an attempted murder suspect and his attorney, claim...

Unreasonable Woman EMPLOYMENT LAW: The federal courts have not balked at summarily adjudicating in employers' favor cases in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - United Airlines, Federal Express and other air carriers cannot put off much longer extending nonhealth benefi...

On the eve of trial, the $100 million breach of contract suit comedian Garry Shandling filed against his former manager and p...

A day after a Mendocino Community College student filed a $1 million racial profiling lawsuit against Santa Rosa police, the ...

After more than a year of negotiating, 40 cities that contract with the county of Los Angeles for law enforcement and other s...

Following a wave of higher court rulings condemning news media tactics, a divided state appeal panel has allowed the parents ...

UKIAH - Norman Vroman is unique among the 58 county district attorneys in California. He is the only avowed libertarian and t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The watershed federal appellate ruling Friday that raised the pleading standards for plaintiffs in securities...

For most athletes, completing a single marathon race would be a crowning lifetime achievement. But for Joan Haratani , a major...

SACRAMENTO - The lawyers may want to strengthen consumers' ability to take insurers to court. But the attorneys' own malpract...