LOS ANGELES - A man twice convicted and sentenced to death for the 1979 murder of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl must get...

LOS ANGELES - Once-prominent personal injury attorney James H. Davis continually "robbed Peter to pay Paul," diverting disable...

LOS ANGELES - A brash French judge who made a name for himself chasing terrorists can't testify in federal court in Los Angele...

LOS ANGELES - The former partner of rogue Los Angeles police Officer Rafael A. Perez pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges ...

VENTURA - Century City attorney John J. Reiner, whose ill-fated foray into the movie business led to extortion charges, was co...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster has extended its Southern California and entertainment reach by open...

SAN FRANCISCO - A closely divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a guilty plea by non-citizens may be overturned i...

LOS ANGELES - Two episodes on the same day last week raise questions about new Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's of...

The Piscitelli case may well herald a new trend in the treatment of unrecovered punitive damages in legal-malpractice a...

Among actions announced Monday, April 2, 2001 by the justices were:

"It is entirely unrealistic to regard urine as one of the 'effects' of a person who has abandoned it." Justice Antonin Scalia,...

LOS ANGELES - In the first courtroom showdown since the mass recall of tires began, an attorney told a Los Angeles Superior Co...

Former start-up founder Brian Pass is digging back into the practice of law as a partner in the Los Angeles office of the New ...

San Diego biotech company Santarus Inc. has completed its third round of venture financing. The financing brought in $33 milli...

Citrix Systems Inc. will purchase all outstanding shares of Sequoia Software Corp. for nearly $185 million in cash. Fort Laude...

Attorneys who represent subcontractor defendants in construction litigation no longer have to fear threats of joint-and-severa...

Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton in Ventura has recruited Anthony Ramos as its newest associate. Ramos was previously with E...

As Wall Street and Nasdaq watch the stock market continue its descent south, so has Corporate America seen merger and acquisit...

San Francisco-based Unexplored Inc. has raised $10 million in second series funding. The financing's lead investors included W...

It is hard to conceive of a case more different than the Supreme Court's last decision on the very same issue in 'Medtronic.' ...

The environmental lawyers at Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker have brought some top-notch regulatory advice in...

San Francisco's Blum Capital Partners has agreed to buy El Segundo's CB Richard Ellis Services Inc. The cash and assumption-of...

As a group, we often take ourselves too seriously. Lawyers should strive to be approachable, accessible and understandable. Be...

Katrina Foley, a partner at Irvine's Lents & Foley, will lead the Costa Mesa Planning Commission. In a 5-0 vote, the commi...

Kathleen Carpenter has spent 14 of her 15-year legal career as a "dirt" lawyer. Although her feet are still firmly planted in ...

While San Francisco's Littler Mendelson was busy opening its two new Pennsylvania outposts earlier this year, partner Dennis B...

Colleen McAndrews, a name partner at Bell McAndrews Hiltachk & Davidian, an election-law boutique in Sacramento, has been ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was among those who honored the work of the Jewish Federation's Legal Division at its 53rd Annual Dinner...

Chicago's Equity Office Properties Trust will buy Spieker Properties Inc. of Menlo Park. The cash, stock and assumption-of-deb...

Last year, corporate lawyers worked fast and furious to meet the tight deadlines set by their clients selling or buying a busi...