Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Fremont, has introduced Joint Resolution 10, which urges t...

LOS ANGELES - One of the earliest recollections Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Brian Petraborg has of his childhood i...

Focus Column - Internet Crime - By Evan Granowitz and James R. Sechrist - Internet gambling is a multibillion-dollar-a-year in...

LOS ANGELES - The University of West Los Angeles is having a tumultuous summer, marked by reports of impending financial colla...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Robert L. Brock, a 58-year veteran of the legal community, has d...

LOS ANGELES - A private service is scheduled today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert I. Weil, a respected ju...

LOS ANGELES - Yahoo Inc. will pay $1 billion in cash for a 40 percent stake in the Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba.com, heatin...

LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan has reinvented himself again - this time landing a job at a big law fir...

WASHINGTON - Even if Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. is the fire-breathing conservative most liberals fear, some obs...

Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - With hearings on the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court set to begin in early S...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Paul D. Fogel and Mani Sheik - You're a happy camper. You won your case in federal court: Th...

LOS ANGELES - David J. Cowan, a Los Angeles business litigator, and Tamila Ipema, a research attorney with the Los Angeles Sup...

LOS ANGELES - To director James Cameron and other makers of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," it probably feels like dj vu, all ov...

LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood actor and an NFL player grabbed headlines this year for allegedly using the Whizzinator, a device in...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Monday ordered a national law firm and two of its attorneys to pay $267,000 in fees and costs a...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Two of the biggest stories out of the nation's capital this summer are legal thrillers worthy of th...

WASHINGTON - Although the current Supreme Court justices have spent considerable time deciding cases at the high court, they ...

OFFICE ONTARIO - Expanding its operations in the Inland Empire, IndyMac Bank has signed on for 40,000 square feet at the Airpo...

LOS ANGELES - Vowing to focus on improving job satisfaction among lawyers, Los Angeles trial attorney Brad D. Brian has taken...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Mitchell Zimmerman - The Supreme Court's decision on file sharing and copyright infr...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago resulted in the deaths of 200,00...

Pircher Nichols & Meeks has announced that Jeffrey N. Brown has joined the firm as a litigation partner in Los Angeles. Br...

LOS ANGELES - The Bar Association of San Francisco was one of four bar associations to receive the American Bar Association Pa...

LOS ANGELES - Greene Broillet & Wheeler has promoted firm associate Scott H. Carr to partner. Carr's addition increases th...

LOS ANGELES - A former Compton judge who pleaded no contest to embezzling thousands of dollars from his clients agreed Friday ...

LOS ANGELES - Handcuffed and casually dressed, Jack Abramoff, one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful lobbyists, appeared in a...

LOS ANGELES - Winston & Strawn's San Francisco office recently bulked up its corporate and finance group by hiring five at...

RETAIL SANTA ANA - Washington Capital Management Inc. acquired the 85,363-square-foot Brookhollow Showroom Retail Center for $...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Merrill Lynch & Co. agreement to pay $37 million to settle a class action brought on behalf of the firm...

Employment Column - By Joel M. Grossman - Although mediating employment cases is in some ways no different from mediating othe...