In 2003, it looked like personal-injury attorney Barry Shanley had it all. He had his own firm in Montrose, Potter, Shanley &a...

Jeff Lederman says everyday in Winston & Strawn's litigation department is like walking onto a sports field with an all-st...

Robert Feinerman Background: 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice Age: 78 Affiliations: ARC, ADR Services, Judicate West, Ind...

EXTRA Column - Trial Strategies - By Noelle C. Nelson - Jurors relate best to what they already know. To the average juror, a ...

Attendees at the Orange County Bar Association's 2005 Law Day luncheon on May 12 came away knowing two things about Harmon Sch...

The month of May brought the Los Angeles outpost of River Edge, N.J.-based Peckar & Abramson new office space as well as o...

The same pharmacy company in the business of selling specialty prescriptions for cancer and HIV patients drove one of its San ...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - It used to be that in all of the large family law districts in our state, there was a mast...

Letter to the Editor - In her article "Intellectual Property Piracy Threatens Worldwide Economic Health, Stability" (May 13 Da...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - Civil Code Section 1717 requires any contractual attorney fees clause tha...

LOS ANGELES - Former Ventura Superior Court Judge Robert C. Bradley, whose long battle with alcoholism led to a fall from gra...

EXTRA Feature - Zihuatanejo, Mexico - Wayne Beaudoin says every once in awhile he needs to escape the "hustle and bustle" of L...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's the case of the missing file. Not just any old file, but the police homicide file in the last death penal...

LAGUNA WOODS - When she graduated from law school at 46, Mary Pat Toups set out to make a difference in the lives of the less...

SANTA ANA - A jury on Friday awarded $2.78 million in compensatory damages in the first wrongful death case stemming from a t...

LOS ANGELES - The Credit Lyonnais litigation is confusing enough without California Attorney General Bill Lockyer stirring th...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a cross-continent raid, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has emptied Coudert Brothers' London and Moscow...

Column Employment - By Lin M. Meyer - The California Supreme Court has set the matter of Reynolds v. Bement , 107 Cal.App.4th ...

Forum Column - By Michael A. S. Newman - According to the ancient historian Herodotus, King Croesus so delighted in his riches...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - The law used to be relatively clear. California Code of Civil Procedure Section 704...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eric C. Wyatt, a Madera County prosecutor and special assistant in U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of C...

SANTA ANA -The mayor of Newport Beach, a court commissioner and a law firm partner were appointed Thursday as judges on the O...

LOS ANGELES - Even in the verbose world of litigation, this one's a monster. A lawsuit, filed by Los Angeles attorney Patrick ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in 20 months, a jury acquitted three former Oakland police officers accused of several co...

LOS ANGELES - A police car pulling over a vehicle with expired registration tags is hardly an unusual event, especially in a ...

LOS ANGELES - Five students and their parents Thursday sued East High School in Bakersfield and the Kern School District to al...

SAN FRANCISCO - Strictly speaking, Carlos Ozuna Garza isn't a car thief, at least in the eyes of the California Supreme Court...

SAN FRANCISCO - The constitutional brawl over the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 now kicks into high ge...

LOS ANGELES - Warning to defendants: When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sandra A. Thompson gives you 365 days to pay a fin...

MULTIFAMILY SAN DIEGO - Hye Boon Im and Sang Soo Im purchased a 16-unit apartment building at 970 E. Mission Ave. from Dana P...