Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Littler Mendelson has grabbed seven attorneys from the firm now known as Kauff McGuire & Margolis to join its San Francisc...

Two Spanish-language media giants, Mexico's Grupo Televisa and the Los Angeles-based Univision Communications Inc., are set to...

Bernard "Barney" Cassidy’s pro bono work defending the rights of prisoners at Pelican Bay prepared him for the equally emotion...

In our troubled economy, lawyers should become experts in their current practice or position themselves for a possible new car...

For two years, attorneys for rock superstars Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead waged a legal war against a Minnesota entrepre...

When Barak Lurie and Daniel Park were senior associates at the firm now named Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs & Shapiro, they n...

Lawyers dealing with issues of judicial misconduct must weigh their remedies against the actions that might be taken by the ju...

Rules requiring probationers to notify officials before purchasing a pet don't serve the safety of police officers or the publ...

Whether you are a two-partner firm or a 100-attorney firm, strategic planning is critical for success, write Barbara Lewis and...

McAfee Inc. and three of its former executives, including one-time general counsel Kent Roberts, have agreed to a truce in a p...

A San Francisco federal court will have to balance protecting companies' IP rights and the the rights of those companies' indi...

Lawyers at the former Los Angeles affiliate of Marc Dreier's firm have decided to split up. A group that joined the firm a yea...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has nabbed another Mayer Brown partner, this one for its Silicon Valley intellectual p...

Former Los Angeles gang prosecutor Kevin McCormick finds the Sacramento bench a good fit, and lawyers on both sides of the ai...

Judge Xapuri B. Villapudua grew up in Stockton and enjoys her ties to the community. ...

While the legal industry was rattled as the economy drifted into recession and then a shock, intellectual property attorneys f...

Federal agents raided Julia and B.J. Davis' hope in August 2005. The couple have filed a lawsuit accusing the government of re...

Bratz and Barbie will share toy aisle space a while longer. ...

A. David Kagon, the lawyer who defeated the first so-called "palimony" suit, filed against actor Lee Marvin in 1976, has died....

If companies are capable of reducing personnel without making layoffs, they can look to less draconian options to save on cost...

Pamela Dunn, a noted Pasadena appellate attorney who won a surprise victory in a recent arbitration case, has died. She was 59...

Let us all hope that 2009 ushers in a new era of American confidence, writes Mark A. Neubauer. - Forum Column ...

A recent appellate decision confirmed that developers of raw land cannot recover anticipated future development profits by cha...

One month after a crowded Metrolink train collided with a freight train during rush hour, killing 25 commuters and injuring 13...

The controversy over the new housing density law involves the two competing interests of affordable housing development and lo...

Santa Fe Springs defense attorney Brian Oxman is known for representing celebrity clients, including (briefly) Michael Jackson...

Some $96 million in settlement funds from a smokeless tobacco class action in California is being held up by a lone objector. ...

Lawyers from Latham & Watkins can breathe easier after finishing a deal worth up to $900 million between London-based phar...

Los Angeles-headquartered Northrop Grumman Corp. has selected a Sheppard Mullin partner as the company's corporate vice presid...