Throughout the waves of initial public offerings in the past few years, most of the headlines have been swept up by young and ...

One night, when Micha Danzig was a first-year lawyer working on a high-pressure, product liability wrongful death case, a par...

After more than a year of zipping between the New York and Los Angeles offices of Brown Raysman Felder & Steiner, partner ...

New recruit Stephen Bickford moved into an office two doors down from his new boss, Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliot managin...

By Boyd Hudson. Allowing participation of the nonelecting spouse ensures that innocent-spouse relief will only be granted wher...

By Corky Pickering. Picture a tiny "pseudo-country" with 60,000 people, two newspapers, plenty of golf courses and place to es...

SANTA ANA - Former Los Angeles court auditor Gregory Pentoney was sentenced to two years in state prison Friday for his role i...

The FBI last week issued a report about school shootings that urges school officials to be alert to students who show a preocc...

VICTORVILLE - High Desert attorney Archer B. Hudson put up a six-year fight in the case of his life, battling charges that he ...

SANTA ANA - The leading producer of Vitamin C is suing the National Academy of Science, alleging the academy has falsely repor...

SACRAMENTO - Prosecutors and defense lawyers may not agree on much. But when asked to name the most important criminal bills o...

INDIO - On March 30, just after 8-year-old Machera Moloi stepped from a taxi cab, she was struck by a pickup truck as she cros...

The city of Los Angeles has tentatively agreed to pay a police officer's lawyer $50,000 to settle the federal civil rights law...

Thanks to a federal court, death row inmate Charles Hines finally will get a shot at proving his innocence through DNA testing...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers and tort reformers are seeing some measure of success in their lobbying efforts during the Californ...

By Zoe Overbeck. Thomas J. Leanse has found a way to expose summer associates to the work of the Anti-Defamation League: have ...

By Julia Lapis. It's baseball season again! I love baseball, and like most fans, I generally see the positive side of our nati...

By Jonathan Schneeweiss. Every day, at workplaces throughout California, employees work with or are incidentally exposed to ha...

By Kenneth Theisen. On July 25, 1974, two weeks before he resigned from office, Richard Nixon signed legislation creating the ...

By William D. Wick. Federal agencies can't escape California state courts in air-pollution cases by removing the cases to fede...

On Aug. 15, Verdicts & Settlements sat down with a few of the country's leading sports law attorneys to discuss the effect...

By Howard Jacobs. As Olympic sports gained popularity and importance, the incentive for improvement increased. Athletes seekin...

An Iranian businessman who braved the fury of the ayatollahs by distributing Salman Rushdie's banned novel "The Satanic Verses...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Judith McConnell, the first woman elected presiding judge in a metropolitan California court,...

In a few short days, the world's single largest sporting event will commence in Australia and the value of corporate affiliati...

Greg Lyman likens speed-skating to litigating cases, "both require tremendous preparation, while you actually only compete for...

By Douglas G. Carnahan. Court reporters can make witnesses and lawyers look like fools or champions of articulateness. ...

A teacher at Palisades High School filed a sexual harassment suit Thursday claiming the school district failed to protect her ...

SAN DIEGO - A two-strike prison inmate, additionally convicted in July of threatening to kill a San Diego County Superior Cour...