Large Firms
U.S. Treasury Counsel Joins Cooley Firm
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
Government
Jury Awards $715K in Riverside Police Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Judges and Judiciary
Pay Raise Tied to Unification Fails to Win Judges Support
By Jean Guccione
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Takes Quiet, Thoughtful Tack in Running Courtroom
By Denise Levin
SAN FRANCISCO - More than two years after a state appeal court said the State Bar's mandatory continuing legal education prog...
Minneapolis-based Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has lured a group of four intellectual property attorneys to its Los Angel...
A naturalized citizen who spent more than half his life in the Philippines before immigrating to the United States has filed s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Following six days of deliberation and a six-week trial, a frustrated federal jury declared Wednesday that it...
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided federal appeals court ruled Wednesday the University of Southern California did not violate the Equ...
Entertainer Paula Abdul, a former Lakers cheerleader who took her singing and dancing talents to the top of the pop charts in ...
An attorney has sued her former mentor for slander, claiming he made statements about her that have damaged her career and re...
The tough-talking jurist from the syndicated television show "Judge Judy" took her snappish wit too far, according to a sland...
Finding he abused his discretion, a state Court of Appeal Wednesday ordered a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to reverse his...
SACRAMENTO - Californians who get medical benefits through private employers could sue their health maintenance organizations...
The divisive issue of court unification is expected to suffer its second defeat in Los Angeles County when the Judicial Counci...
SAN FRANCISCO - Moving swiftly for the defense, the gun industry's top lobbyist has selected veteran Los Angeles litigator R.D...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Tuesday all but killed a novel student lawsuit against the elimination of aff...
SAN DIEGO - The first defense witness in the trial of a day-care operator accused of shaking a 13-month-old boy so violently ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Howard Jarvis Association Sues to Try to Stop Prop. 187 Mediation
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - A taxpayer group sued Gov. Gray Davis Tuesday to try to stop the mediation of Proposition 187, claiming the gove...
SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino County cases seeking damages of more than $25,000 may soon incur a $35 filing fee - revenue t...
A reputed gang member who turned down a plea agreement on a misdemeanor charge of brandishing a gun may unwittingly have star...
On June 8, the County Bar board of directors will choose as its next president one of two civil litigators from prominent fir...
Large Firms
Weil Firm Adds Silicon Valley M&A Practice
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
SAN FRANCISCO - New York-based Weil Gotshal & Manges has decided to cash in on the booming mergers and acquisition market...
Government
City Attorney Hopeful Sues Mayor, Inglewood for Race Discrimination
By Michael Harris
The former acting city attorney of Inglewood Tuesday filed a reverse discrimination lawsuit against the city and Mayor Roosev...
The topic was the value of Ariel and Simba - the mermaid and lion cub that are the basis of some of the most popular kids' en...