LAKE ARROWHEAD - In this tony resort community nestled in the San Bernardino Mountains, residents gaze out over their shimmeri...

Letter to the Editor - In your Sept. 13 issue, you published a list of the top 75 women litigators. Not one was from the Los A...

Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Thomas C. Klein - During the technology bust of 2000-02, many failing businesses closed and ...

Letter to the Editor - Having had the pleasure of supervising Haywood Gilliam for two of his nearly four years as a white-coll...

Letter to the Editor - It was with amusement (and not a little boredom) that I went through your list of "Top 75 Women Litigat...

Forum Column - By Simon A. Cole and William C. Thompson - On Sept. 1, the FBI announced that it was discontinuing the use of C...

LOS ANGELES - Continuing a string of public-corruption cases in Los Angeles County, former Lynwood Mayor Paul H. Richards is s...

LOS ANGELES - Real estate executives are cautiously optimistic about the future of the commercial real estate market, accordin...

RIVERSIDE - Decades ago, anglers on the Trinity River reeled in dozens of salmon. But as farmers downstream from the snakelik...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Jerome Ringler has been named lead plaintiffs' counsel in lawsuits against Metrolink and U...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is bolstering its antitrust practice with the addition of two highly rega...

Column - By Garry Abrams - "Down on the bayou, after the hurricane, The U.S. House of Representatives spied a lawyer, Running ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America N.A. has agreed to pay as much as $9 million to settle a class action brought by mortgage bro...

LOS ANGELES - The chairman has left the building. David Huebner, a former chairman of Coudert Brothers, departed the fading f...

OFFICE SAN DIEGO - Avnet Inc. signed a 66-month lease for an additional 17,516 square feet of office space at its regional hea...

LOS ANGELES - The beginning of the end for Coudert Brothers came 25 years ago. Alex Coudert's large personality had held the w...

Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - "Have we let some among us make atheism a religion and impose that religion on those...

Focus Column - Construction Law - By Bernard S. Kamine - Civil Code Section 3262(b) has been amended to allow the release of a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stephen Everett, a former partner with Limbach & Limbach, has gone to Preston Gates & Ellis' San Fran...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lloyd "Bill" Pellman, a well-connected former Los Angeles county counsel, and Alexander Hamilton, a real esta...

LOS ANGELES - Following a months-long nationwide search, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles has chosen the head of its c...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Robert M. Takasugi enters his courtroom with the least amount of fanfare imaginable. Takasu...

SAN FRANCISCO - State appellate justices have found plenty to pick apart in arguments raised for and against a massive 1999 ag...

SACRAMENTO - The Democratic race for attorney general has ramped up, not with a flurry of promises or slogans but with a volle...

Rachael Simonoff Wexler has joined Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan in Los Angeles as a partner in the transactional depar...

OFFICE WALNUT CREEK - Beard Land Improvement Co. purchased a 140,000-square-foot office building at 1450 Treat Blvd. for $42 ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not easy to find a constitutional scholar who understands how a Sacramento federal judge came to strike d...

Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler - As employers in California are well aware, the state's law is notoriously strict on e...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Christine de Bretteville - On July 18, the state Supreme Court iss...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gordon & Rees is trying its luck in New York City. The San Francisco law firm, with 10 offices west of th...