LOS ANGELES - For most of his life Guadalupe Acevedo kept to himself the memories of the time spent wielding a short-handled h...

LOS ANGELES - The man she loved had metamorphosed into someone else, someone 10 pounds too thin, someone with bloodless skin a...

Focus Column - By Martin Fern - 'Boilerplate" has been used to describe standard clauses in contracts since the early 19th cen...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Now that the mission - whatever it was - has not been accomplished in Iraq, Bush is setting ...

LOS ANGELES - Full-court press media coverage of the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping scandal has sometimes generated as much att...

LOS ANGELES - Miller time has ended at law firm Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro. On Monday, the ...

SANTA ANA - A Los Angeles jury has found the defunct international law firm Coudert Brothers committed malpractice and must pa...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied review of two free speech-related cases from California. The first was an...

SAN FRANCISCO - A recently published state Court of Appeal decision rejecting a farming company's demand for compensation for ...

LOS ANGELES - Ten lawyers departed the medical malpractice defense powerhouse Bonne Bridges Mueller O'Keefe & Nichols on M...

Convicted child molesters had time on their side Monday. In two unrelated cases, Los Angeles appellate panels found that a civ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Foie gras, a tasty delicacy nevertheless disdained by animal rights activists, sits at center table in a contr...

WASHINGTON - San Jose-based eBay Inc. got a boost Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that wipes out the longstanding...

SANTA ROSA - Court staffers have a nickname for Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Knoel L. Owen: Superman. Owen undoubtedly e...

LOS ANGELES - George Washington wanted to take in all the poor, needy and oppressed of the earth. Benjamin Franklin, however, ...

Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - In 1990, the California Supreme Court rendered its decision in AIU Insurance Company v. Sup...

SAN FRANCISCO - Megafirm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has lost a top media defense litigator to midsized Sheppard Mullin Richte...

LOS ANGELES - Anticipating a growth spurt in Orange County, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius is launching a labor and employment gr...

LOS ANGELES - Boston, we have a problem. Prominent litigator Louis R. "Skip" Miller's lateral move to Goodwin Procter has sta...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran labor and employment litigator Barbara Fitzgerald has joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as a partner in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's San Francisco real estate group landed a land use partner with political and bus...

SAN FRANCISCO - Greenberg Traurig's international team of mass torts litigators bolstered its bench last week by capturing a ...

LOS ANGELES - During her 18 years as an environmental lawyer, Gail Ruderman Feuer earned a reputation as a skilled negotiator,...

LOS ANGELES - In the wake of the Rampart police corruption scandal, federal officials swooped in on the Los Angeles Police Dep...

LOS ANGELES -A highly regarded former federal judge in Washington, D.C., has written the U.S. Justice Department urging prosec...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has delivered what could be a major blow to California's unique toxic warnings law, Prop...

SACRAMENTO - Last year, property owners around the country howled when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Connecticut city's righ...

SANTA ANA — As a young litigation associate with a couple of major Southern California law firms, Corey S. Cramin didn’t have ...

Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - The right to own a home and reasonably use it is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Ho...

Kirkland & Ellis announced that Ephraim Starr has rejoined the firm from Honeywell International Inc., where he was vice p...