LOS ANGELES - Partners with Pittsburgh-based Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham and Seattle's Preston, Gates & El...

O'Melveny & Myers announced the promotion of eight partners in the firm's California offices.

LOS ANGELES - Daniel K. Donahue and David J. Perry started working together in 1986.

SAN JOSE - Federal prosecutors finally have claimed their first convictions under a 1996 law designed to prevent economic espi...

FORUM COLUMN - By Elizabeth Byrne Debreu - The J. Paul Getty Museum has been fighting to keep the core of its antiquities coll...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR - I read with interest the article titled "Collecting Unpaid Fees" in the Nov. 24 issue of the Los Angele...

FORUM COLUMN - By Steven Anderson - As President Bush and the new Democratic-led Congress seek common ground to do the people'...

LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica-based board games company Morning Star Games, whose Web site address was besieged earlier this mont...

LOS ANGELES - With term limits forcing California Assembly Majority Leader Dario J. Frommer out of office, he surveyed the ter...

RIVERSIDE - In a blow to the prosecution, a Riverside County judge Friday dismissed potential death-penalty enhancements again...

LOS ANGELES - The Central District is the largest federal jurisdiction in the nation. But Janet Levine, who three months ago t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group of stockholders is asking AT&T and Verizon for something special this holiday season: a report on ...

LOS ANGELES - Less than a year after taking over the top job at the state's largest federally funded legal services program, V...

Judge Robert Yonts to Step Down From Santa Cruz Bench

LOS ANGELES - Bigger is apparently not always better when it comes to partners deciding their future.

SAN DIEGO - David B. Oberholtzer knew what it was like to be at the controls of a hot Navy jet as it hurtled off a carrier shi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cox Castle & Nicholson has big things to look forward to from its latest lateral coup. Edward A. Cherry, w...

LOS ANGELES - Cynthia Pasternak has always liked puzzles and mazes. The trick to mazes, she learned some years ago, is to star...

SAN BERNARDINO - They had achieved minor celebrity status, guest-starring on such television series as "That '70s Show," "The ...

A San Diego County woman's first-degree murder conviction was thrown out Thursday by an appellate panel that said there's a de...

If attorneys want settlement agreements reached during mediation to be enforceable, they must go beyond formulaic legalese and...

FORUM COLUMN - By Peter Scheer - An open letter to the judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: A three-judge panel of...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Sabrina A. Beldner, Jaffe D. Dickerson and John H. Lien - As corporate America strives to embrace diversity ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Karl Fleming - 'I may not be much, but I'm all I think about" is the self-mocking self-appraisal of a friend...

SANTA ANA - An unusual class action claiming Wal-Mart is responsible for "sweatshop" conditions at suppliers in five Third Wor...

WASHINGTON - Hollywood is starry-eyed at the prospect of Rep. Howard Berman, a Los Angeles Democrat, taking over next month as...

A national tort reform group put San Francisco and Los Angeles courts on a "watchlist" of the country's "Judicial Hellholes" a...

SAN JOSE - Hewlett-Packard Co. is looking for a new law firm to serve as its outside counsel after severing its long relations...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Leonid M. Zilberman - As employers look forward to 2007, what are likely to be the burning employment i...

Trinity's High Empty Country Begets Court of First-Name Familiarity