Los Angeles loves poor people. Just look at the things the city and county have done for them lately. For the lucky residents ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Legislature and the governor have begun an unusual exercise this month that highlights a key debate about ...

ANAHEIM - A 69,000-member nationwide "jury" rendered its verdict over the weekend, and found in favor of an O'Melveny & My...

The recent California Supreme Court ruling in Armandariz v. Foundation Health Psycare Services that limits mandatory arbitrati...

A Los Angeles jury slapped the city with a $5.34 million reprimand Friday, finding that the first black member of the police d...

The judge presiding over the corruption trial of four Los Angeles Rampart Division officers ordered the police department on F...

A Los Angeles City Council member has taken the Police Department to task for recruiting from parts of the country that she sa...

Sunnyvale's Loudcloud Inc. has filed for an initial public offering of stock valued at $150 million. Loudcloud is an Internet ...

In some quarters, the recently defeated referendum to limit the non-Swiss portion of Switzerland's population to 18 percent ra...

Two Internet greeting card companies with nearly identical monikers have settled their legal disputes, with the firm that los...

In what could be the understatement of the year, McKenna & Cuneo 's San Diego managing partner and litigation group head, ...

San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro recently brought aboard two tax partners, Victor Penico and Keith Gercken. The f...

Representing the father-and-son team of Jefferson and Donald Christal in the sale of their indoor tanning products company tur...

Many midsize firms are closing their doors or giving up the ghost in mergers with larger firms. Some blame it on a hostile eco...

Important evidentiary protections exist for sexual-assault victims pursuing civil lawsuits. ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. will acquire Cobalt Networks Inc. in a stock-for-stock merger valued at $2 billion. Palo Alto-based Sun ...

Schuler Homes Inc. has announced that it will merge with privately held Western Pacific Housing. The combined company will hav...

California Tan Inc. has bought California SunCare Inc. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Los Angeles' California Tan,...

Napa's Chalone Wine Group Ltd. has obtained private financing to purchase three vineyards. The unsecured loan is valued at $30...

Seyfarth Shaw ranks 42nd in the state, but its image tends to run beige. To rectify its lack of recognition, the firm has emba...

As difficult as it may be to believe, there really is sexual-harassment insurance coverage. Employment-practices liability ins...

South San Francisco's Exelixis Inc. has agreed to acquire Agritope, based in Portland, Ore. The stock-for-stock transaction is...

Contra Costa's tallest building, One Concord Center, has been sold in a deal worth $55 million. TrizecHahn Corp., a real estat...

The corporate legal department has become the holy grail of a legal career, with attendant respect, and a leader and an associ...

Terrorist groups are still targeting defense attorneys in Northern Ireland despite the desire of its citizens to put the Troub...

The White House, the symbol of the executive branch that enforces our federal laws, has been financed illegally and in direct ...

The Los Angeles arm of New York giant Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom lost corporate attorney Brian McCarthy to an execu...

Los Angeles' Stutman Treister & Glatt, one of the country's leading bankruptcy firms, is mourning the loss of founder Jack...

For the past year, former lawyer Mary Mocine has made a practice of getting attorneys' attention with simple but revolutionary...

Morrison & Foerster has added one partner to its Irvine office and another to its San Francisco headquarters. The most rec...