Gil Garcetti promises to get to the bottom of Rampart and put officers on notice that police corruption will result in stiff p...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has ruled that a woman who has no marriage license cannot pursue a wrongful death acti...

A California appellate court has held that a shareholders' derivative suit for malpractice can be brought against outside coun...

Juror questionnaires show that jurors generally prefer defense counsels' style of arguing over plaintiffs' style. ...

Horns blared, tires screeched, cars stalled and onlookers gaped while a lunatic swung a broomstick at two of Beverly Hills' fi...

SAN DIEGO - A year and a half after revelations of alleged prosecutorial misconduct turned the routine retrial of a street sla...

Charles G. La Bella, the former U.S. attorney in San Diego, has joined Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo's San Diego ...

ANAHEIM - An associate at Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers may jump ship and end up an associate of Regis Philbin on his mor...

A water-main break at the U.S. District Courthouse in Los Angeles flooded the basement and parts of the first floor, damaging ...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a measure that would have eliminated the "baby bar" exam for students in unaccredited law ...

WASHINGTON - The battle over the "Cheers" robots finally is going to trial - if it doesn't settle first. The Supreme Court Mon...

SACRAMENTO - Consumer groups Monday extolled legislation signed by the governor over the weekend that will allow Northridge ea...

Though surprised by the reaction, Burbank city officials said they are not angry Millerwood Animal Rescue Sanctuary officials ...

WASHINGTON - Acting on two separate petitions, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected California attorneys' challenges to some o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Monday's highly anticipated federal appellate court confrontation between the recording industry and upstart N...

Attorney Larry P. Schapiro knew something was very, very wrong when the other members of the Yuba Community College District B...

For Stephanie Splane, corporate partner in the San Francisco office of Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers, the work is all abo...

Booth, Mitchel & Strange, a 23-attorney firm based in Los Angeles, celebrated its 45th anniversary in September. George Mi...

Three lawyers from the Irvine office of Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold, Alan Freisleben, Todd Picker and Lilly Chow are te...

The time and cost required to comply with the noticing requirements of the Bankruptcy Court should also be reduced by the new ...

Attorney Mark Lee Morrison died in a automobile accident Sept. 22. He was 29. The Long Beach resident was alone when he was ki...

Washington, D.C.'s McKenna & Cuneo expects Peter Ippolito, Mark Budwig and Steven Owen to lay the foundation for a constru...

Sarah Griffin, an employment law partner in the Los Angeles office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, has been elected as pres...

The jury sheets confirm that law firms are certainly not immune from the considerable risks posed by the expansion of employee...

David Perry doesn't lift a finger in the summer, but you won't hear his partners at Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly complaini...

Los Angeles-based Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has added two lateral associates. Land use attorneys R.J. Comer and ...

Hispanic communications giant Entravision Communications Corp. has bought Z-Spanish Media Corp. The $448 million deal includes...

While most law firms were on the beach sunning themselves, San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps was scoping out a p...

Common to today's franchise agreements is a clause establishing what is usually referred to as a right of first refusal. The t...

Washington, D.C.'s Howrey Simon Arnold & White brings corporate litigation partner Dick Burdge aboard its Los Angeles offi...