SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto-based Jazz Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $20 million to California and a number of other governm...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - State Treasurer Bill Lockyer has appointed lawyer Barbara Liebert, whose husband is a ch...

Focus Column - By Brian D. Langa - A decision from the Supreme Court's most recent term destroyed already-tenous provisions fo...

LOS ANGELES - A former attorney will serve a year in jail for embezzling $150,000 from the trust of an elderly woman who once ...

SACRAMENTO - A statewide tort-reform group and the California Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to launch a ballot initiative...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton strengthened its Los Angeles litigation practice ...

SAN FRANCISCO - During his campaign, State Bar board of governors hopeful Jeffrey P. Lustman billed himself as the anti-establ...

Forum Column - By K.C. Victor - Building a bigger portfolio is as simple as overcoming basic business inhibitions. ...

LOS ANGELES - While President Bush had a range of candidates to choose from for U.S. attorney in California's Central District...

SANTA ANA - Over the last decades, computers have brought 3-D graphics and real-time transcripts to trials all over the nation...

LOS ANGELES - After seven months of searching, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles has picked Mario Salgado as its new exe...

Kern County Superior Court Judge Michael G. Bush won praise from the local media and legal community while presiding over a no...

Spurred by his mother’s insistence on education, Judge Juan Ulloa rose from picking cotton to sitting on the bench. ...

On the Move

Forum Column - By Jeff Berke - One litigator's war stores include a vanishing trial and a settlement conference with no one to...

With Honors

Los Angeles-There are no coincidences in the world of Mariam Zadeh. This Buddhist sensibility, that everything happens for a r...

SACRAMENTO - It was just five years ago that lawmakers were rushing to introduce bills to protect whistle-blowers from retalia...

SAN FRANCISCO - With his curly, dark hair and youthful good looks, Jason Gold fits the profile of a 32-year-old hedge fund man...

Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - Troy Ellerman, former BALCO attorney, has a lot in common with Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice Pre...

Forum Column - By Nina E. Vinik - A San Francisco shooting inspired the work of a group of lawyers aiming to curb gun violence...

Despite reports from Nicaragua that banana plantation workers there were signing a petition to fire their U.S. counsel in a to...

Web Exclusive - LOS ANGELES - After months of anticipation, the White House on Thursday nominated Thomas O'Brien to be the nex...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - George W. Bush's tyrannical tendencies rival those that of another George--the one who touch...

Employment Column - By Melanie M. Poturica and David A. Urban - Employment lawyers who work with public employees better start...

LOS ANGELES - ADR Services Inc., one of the state's leading alternative dispute resolution providers, is opening an Orange Cou...

An insurance agency was ordered to pay $5.8 million after one of its agents failed to inform a Santa Fe Springs company it was...

SAN FRANCISCO - Philadelphia-based Duane Morris expanded its Southeast Asian footprint Thursday by opening offices in Vietnam'...

WASHINGTON - The top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., could be the next one in the political hot seat. ...

LOS ANGELES - Faced with the imminent threat of jail, a former attorney for Phil Spector on Thursday capitulated to court dema...