A cigarette distributor challenged the $206 billion settlement between the Big Five tobacco companies and attorneys general in...

Consistent with his belief that increasing management scrutiny will lessen the chance of officer misconduct, Los Angeles Polic...

Palm Springs lawyer L. Joane Garcia-Colson is the new executive director of Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College, the Dubois, ...

Concluding that a convicted cop killer received ineffective assistance of counsel, a federal appellate court Monday threw out ...

Speech isn't so free for radio talk-show host Herb Nero and Eric Chandler Communications of Antelope Valley, the owners of rad...

A federal judge has dealt a first-round loss to Napster Inc., the wildly popular Internet company that allows users access to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Companies using salaried, in-house lawyers are entitled to recover attorney fees at the prevailing private hou...

Forum: By Sheila James Kuehl Last year, along with Assemblyman Martin Gallegos, I was asked by Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa to...

SAN JOSE - In a case that could affect the rights of California technology employees to switch jobs, Intel Corp. is fighting i...

Bottom Line: By Marcia Watson Wainess and Dennis Duitch In today's rapidly changing business marketplace, clients are becoming...

Forum: By Dianne Feinstein It doesn't seem real, but it's true. A 6 -year-old Michigan boy guns down a 6 -year-old girl in the...

The Closer: By JoAnne Earls Robbins The lead prosecutor rose slowly from the counsel table to give his closing argument. He ap...

Services will be held Tuesday for retired attorney Susan Elizabeth Riley, who died April 27. The long time San Marino resident...

SANTA ANA - Lori Jensen, a former Orange County midwife under fire for allegedly causing the stillborn birth of a baby, pleade...

A Beverly Hills lawyer who allegedly advised two doctors on how to conceal assets from the bankruptcy court and the IRS has be...

When Loryn Dunn Arkow made the split-second decision to study the Japanese language as an undergraduate, there was no way she ...

The San Francisco office of Los Angeles-based Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has added Michael Wilmar as a partner in...

Forum: For The People By Jeffrey A. Lowe After much public debate, the California legislature passed new legislation last year...

Large Firms: While large firms are scrambling to tap into Southern California's emerging-growth market, Newport Beach's Stradl...

The Adviser: By Grant P. Fondo and Robert M. Shore In only a few short years, bulletin-board services, chat rooms and message ...

When Bob asked Jessica to go salsa dancing and she pointedly ignored the question, she thought that he got the idea. All she w...

Nothing is more subject to change than the laws. -Michel De Montaigne, 16th-Century French writer. In a bid to become a pre-em...

VENTURA - Kern County, the state's last holdout on court unification, has taken another step closer to what many judges in thi...

Larry Kane, a partner at San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, thinks wrestling should get better press. And he's...

Attorneys Keith M. Casto, William K. Bissell and John A. Slezak have joined Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold's environment...

Simon Lorne, a partner with Munger, Tolles & Olson, doesn't consider himself a gaming-industry expert. Even so, Pinnacle E...

SANTA ANA - A retired Orange County judge charged by the Commission on Judicial Performance with willful misconduct in office ...

U.S. Supreme Court Column By David Pike WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's blockbuster 1999-2000 term is heading for a blockbust...

The city of Los Angeles has been served with four more lawsuits alleging civil rights violations and a pattern and practice of...

Another class action was filed Friday in the Los Angeles Police Department Rampart scandal, this one by an attorney who usuall...