LOS ANGELES - Claude Parker founded the Los Angeles firm now known as Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'Hara, Samuelian in 1913, 20 ...

McDonough Holland & Allen announced the addition of David A. Wolf as shareholder to the firm's Oakland and Sacramento offi...

SAN FRANCISCO - The efforts of a former CEO to defraud a competitor out of millions of dollars afflicted not only the victims ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Melanie Delgado and Robert C. Fellmeth - When children in America turn 18, they "emancipate" into adulthood....

LOS ANGELES - As school districts and parks departments look for ways to meet a growing demand for nighttime sports games, som...

LOS ANGELES - Fleeing an uncertain atmosphere marked by failed merger talks and a planned split, transactional attorney Louis ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hank Barry re-entered private practice at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin last week after a se...

LOS ANGELES - Growing up in the Davy Crockett National Forest in east Texas, Genie Harrison wanted a horse so badly it was the...

LOS ANGELES - This fall, the city of Los Angeles offered to pay $2 million to the family of a woman in a vegetative state sinc...

LOS ANGELES - A name partner at Milberg Weiss said Friday he intends to resign, sparking speculation that he is cooperating wi...

In a win for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's policy agenda, a Sacramento appellate panel has ruled that the state's political wat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nixon Peabody finally landed its sought-after West Coast life sciences and biotechnology partner last week in ...

FOCUS COLUMN - By David S. Gehrig - In June, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Michaelis v. Superior Court, ...

RICHMOND - It's not often that a lifelong Democrat and "do-gooder" from the public defender's office gets elevated to the benc...

MURRIETA - She might be sentencing someone to life in prison, but Judge Judith Clark does it so politely that some attorneys s...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the nation's leading investment banks should be immune from two class ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Claudette G. Wilson, Michael S. Kalt and Krista M. Cabrera - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's post-election comm...

SAN JOSE - Margaret Kemp has made a smooth transition from a career as a San Mateo County Superior Court judge to her new job ...

LOS ANGELES - When Donna Durando and her husband, James Durando, decided to start a family 25 years ago, they began by adoptin...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Bert Deixler has a knack for bringing people together.

SAN FRANCISCO - A fifth death penalty case has been marred by the work of a former San Francisco private investigator under su...

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino County has agreed to pay a developer $102 million to settle a fierce and lengthy legal fight o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge delivered a scathing reprimand Thursday to a homicide prosecutor who discussed a case w...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By E. George Joseph - Retaliation claims are becoming prevalent and the reason is simple. Proving a claim ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Dan Stormer and Anne Richardson - As we plan for the busy holiday season ahead, it is easy to forget that no...

FOCUS COLUMN - By S. Christian Platt, Aslan Baghdadi and Jeremy Livianu - On Nov. 28, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments i...

LOS ANGELES - In 2000, nine of every 10 dollars raised in initial public offerings by foreign companies were raised in the Uni...

SAN FRANCISCO - A law firm that investigated possible options backdating violations for Brocade Communications Systems Inc. wa...

SAN JOSE - Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed Thursday to pay a $14.5 million fine and implement internal reforms to resolve civil cla...

LOS ANGELES - Bantita Rackchamroon was 21-years-old when a roller coaster called Scream cut her life short during a test run i...