International corporate attorney Joseph M. Barbeau, an 18-year veteran of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, has defecte...

Fighting a retaliation claim requires showing that whatever happened to an employee was unrelated to the employee's earlier pr...

By Erwin Chemerinsky. For almost 40 years under both liberal and conservative Supreme Courts, the law has been clear: Prayer i...

Gregg Noel, like many corporate attorneys these days, is used to burning the midnight oil. His representation of Plum Creek Ti...

Hispanic communications giant Entravision Communications Corp. went public today in an offering initially valued at about $7....

San Rafael's Kabira Technologies Inc. has filed for an initial public offering of stock valued at about $57 million. Kabira i...

Computer networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. is buying NuSpeed Internet Systems. The stock deal is valued at $450 million. Sa...

Law schools are experimenting with ways to produce a new breed of lawyers who can figure out how to apply a body of law writte...

Norbert M. Seifert, formerly general counsel and corporate secretary of Imperial Credit Commercial Mortgage Investment Corp., ...

An independent, responsible judiciary is slowly emerging in Eastern European countries from what has traditionally been hamstr...

Nortel Networks Corp., the world's No. 2 network equipment supplier, has bought Web switch developer AlteonWeb Systems Inc. Th...

Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has lured Century City's Sanders Barnet Goldman Simons & Mosk to join its Cent...

Membership Privileges Government Faces Major Hurdles in Credit-Card Case Whether the government can show injury to consumers, ...

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday voted to delay until April placing a measure on the ballot that would strengthen the po...

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's attorney Rachel Lehmer Claus is forced to deal with a change of rules that are interferin...

Michael Stolzberg, a retired workers' compensation judge, died Monday from a lung infection. He was 86. According to retired c...

Sherrald Reed, LaRonda Burton, Mercedes Knox, Denise Reed, Rosslynn Mitchell and Barbara Becker - all convicted of drug offens...

Brian Kazarian was one of the finest the Orange County district attorney's office had to offer: an aggressive, sometimes arrog...

By David Houston Daily News Staff Writer A former veteran cop assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th Division pl...

More than two years after a man's death in an unlicensed alcohol rehabilitation facility in North Hollywood sparked a debate a...

Former 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William A. Norris and former assistant U.S. attorney and Supreme Court clerk Edward ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prodded by a state Supreme Court ruling that opened court proceedings involving actor-director Clint Eastwood ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler on Friday set aside the conviction of a man allegedly framed by ex-Los Angele...

An immigration officer, already under criminal investigation for promising political asylum to two Chinese women in exchange f...

By Michael M. Berger. Land-use litigation in California is not for the faint of heart, at least if one represents landowners. ...

By Ruchi Gupta. Following a day-and-a-half of deliberation, a San Francisco jury awarded Mark Lewis, a 51-year-old mesotheliom...

The Public Eye: by Ross Johnson. Now that actor Robert Downey Jr. has left, at least for a bit, the California penal system, w...

By Allan D. Bogutz. In increasing numbers, lawyers are seeing clients who have residence in more than one country. Faster trav...

Labor and employment attorney Catherine Conway, formerly a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, has joined the Los Angele...

By Stephen Zager. In a world that doesn't accept you based on circumstances outside your control, should you fight the law by ...