SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley legal star Larry Sonsini and two other former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. directors wil...

Industry Watch - By Gabe Friedman - Cooley Godward & Kronish has tapped Roel C. Campos, who consistently sided with shareh...

Focus Column - By Kirk Pasich - Do insurance carries have to pay for settlements that their insured don't foot the bill for? W...

Forum Column - By Donald Kilmer - The California legislature's proposal for handgun microstamping would be unworkable, expensi...

Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - While most big law firms have followed the trend of minimizing aspects of their la...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Philadelphia-based Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll made its Los Angeles debut last ...

Industry Wact - By Maya Meinert - With 35 new hires and a planned expansion to the East Coast, Orange County intellectual prop...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Miguel Santana, right-hand man to Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina, will be j...

Industry Watch - By D. Heimpel - With a beefed up roster of entertainment clients, Glen A. Rothstein has returned to Rosenfeld...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Delaware-based intellectual property firm Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz's Los Angeles offi...

SAN BERNARDINO - In the state's longest-running fight between a city and a strip joint, a judge has tenatively ordered closure...

Lawyer Tony Segall is in the midst of negotiations with studios and is hoping for a happy ending for script writers. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. appeals court has opened the door to refunds for California estimated in excess of $1 billion stemming ...

Lightning rod of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Stephen Reinhardt is an undeniable force, no matter what you thi...

On the Move

After studying to be an anthropologist, Solano County Court Commissioner Alberta Chew changed directions, opting for a more st...

Thursday was not so good for California workers, who lost two close questions of employment law at the California Supreme Cour...

A leading activist says consumer protections for Californians are being eroded in a way not seen since the 1980s, and warns of...

Focus Column - By Ken Moscaret - Firms that want to stand up to insurance company claims of overbilling need to learn these ke...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has awarded a pair of pornographers $16.4 million in a copyright infringement and right of public...

"Guys, do you think the juice is going to be worth the squeeze here?" "You're flipping around nickels here like they're manho...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate judge used a routine order to urge California's attorney general not to seek the expedited r...

Employment Column - By Robin J. Samuel and Jennifer L. Wagman - The longstanding belief that preventing employees from eventu...

Web Exclusive - Los Angeles County settled with its former cost litigation manager, who had filed a claim for wrongful termina...

A federal judge is expected to remand 145 clergy abuse cases filed against the Diocese of San Diego back to a state court for ...

Forum Column - By Josh Horwitz - A bill soon to come before the California Senate could solve the state's epidemic levels of u...

Forum Column - By Martha Burk - Nearly 90 years after its introduction in Congress, the Equal Rights Amendment still languishe...

Web Exclusive - San Francisco white-collar crime defender John Keker is off to the rescue, this time to bail out Mississippi t...

SANTA ANA - A Long Beach man who spent 24 years in prison for a murder he did not commit may be able to see grand jury evidenc...

RIVERSIDE - A federal jury in Los Angeles, handing down a verdict in a rare hate-crime civil case, has ordered six alleged sup...