LOS ANGELES - Since the firing of its leader earlier this month, the Los Angeles Police Department's civilian oversight panel ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has denied the Oakland Raiders' effort to reinstate $1 billion worth of fraud claims a...

SAN JOSE - In a sweeping legal victory for the First Amendment rights of individuals who post caustic commentary about publicl...

For associates who reel in a new client, several things can happen when they put their name down as the originating lawyer. ...

LOS ANGELES - The general counsel for the Los Angeles Unified School District is seeking permission from the board of educatio...

SANTA ANA - Another three Orange County couples sued the University of California and doctors affiliated with the now-defunct ...

SACRAMENTO - A controversial measure that could greatly increase the number of convicts subjected to mandatory DNA testing has...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices Monday not only struggled with how to decide their latest case involving government re...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's failure to provide an adequate education to children - including special-needs children - i...

SAN FRANCISCO - One more reason not to file Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation is that you might end up paying do...

NEWBERRY SPRINGS - In this windswept outpost of the Mojave Desert, the sand moves constantly, forming dunes and covering road ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles may not have a National Football League team. The XFL may be tanking faster than Bill Clinton can ha...

Among actions announced Monday, Feb. 26, 2001 by the justices were:

Libel! Defamation! Slander! Invasion of privacy! A journalist tagged often enough with these dangerous words can expect a one-...

AmericanGreetings.com has agreed to acquire Egreetings Network Inc. The value of the deal has not been disclosed. Cleveland's ...

Lisa Specht, a partner at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips, assumed the presidency of the Los Angeles Coliseum Commis...

Three months after acquiring a high-powered Washington, D.C, environmental boutique, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, is ma...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Emeryville environmental consultant has been fined $10,000 and required to perform 200 hours of community s...

It's quite a leap from "Helter Skelter" to boleros, Vincent Bugliosi admits. But the famed prosecutor of serial killer Charles...

Community development expert Daniel Tellalian has joined the Santa Monica real estate shop of Harding Larmore Kutcher & Ko...

Labor lawyer Keith Jacoby joined Los Angeles' Davis Wright Tremaine on Feb. 7 with the hopes of further refining his labor and...

Ever close a $2.6 billion deal? How about in eight days? Didn't think so. Those bragging rights belong to corporate and securi...

LOS ANGELES - John Lucas, former associate general counsel for Arco, joins the 80-lawyer Los Angeles office of Morgan Lewis &a...

Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. has planned an initial public offering worth $70 million. Based in San Diego, Acadia develops drug...

Justice Antonin Scalia wants to have it both ways. While he claims to have the only objective theory of constitutional interpr...

Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish has brought aboard water management expert Gregory Zlotnick. H...

After 10 years of working across the table from Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, real estate lawyer Frank Iaffaldano hoppe...

Canandaigua Wine has agreed to buy assets of Turner Road Vintners. The stock and debt-assumption deal is valued at $295 millio...

Brian Frasch joined the growing club of former Hillyer & Irwin partners Nov. 20 when he moved over to the San Diego office...

Rintala Smoot Jaenicke & Rees, a Los Angeles litigation and employment law boutique, has recruited a new associate. Heathe...