Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - Solo-flying Eagle Don Henley scored a hit single in 1983 with "Dirty Laundry." The song raked...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael McCabe has lured three of his former partners from Preston Gates to Reed Smith's San Francisco office...

SAN DIEGO - Reversing its earlier ruling, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a state law requiring towing companie...

SAN FRANCISCO - Patricia Gillette booked $6 million in business last year. She's the co-chairwoman of Heller Ehrman's labor a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Silicon Valley boutique Ritchey Fisher Whitman & Klein has struck a deal to join Dorsey & Wh...

Column - By Garry Abrams - What could be both the biggest New York and the most gigantic national political trial of the year ...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy announced a reshuffling of management responsibilities Monday i...

LOS ANGELES - The mother of a 13-year-old suspected car thief shot and killed in February by a Los Angeles police officer will...

Staff at the Transgender Law Center have made it their mission to speak for those who don't have a voice. Their advocacy will ...

EXTRA Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Timing and the question of who goes first are important aspects of negotiating the com...

MURRIETA - Lawyer Edward J. Faunce has taken his courtroom-honed skills of persuasion into the political arena - and won. The...

A three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected the defense of qualified immunity for Placer C...

Steel manufacturer Earle M. Jorgensen Company's initial public offering fell on the market's worst day since the 2004 presiden...

INDUSTRIAL ESCONDIDO - California Cooling Supply Co. Inc. signed a five-year, $880,338 lease for 20,000 square feet of indust...

When Los Angeles attorney Sandy Passman cross-examined an officer during a police misconduct trial last month, the courtroom a...

NBA player Samaki Walker of the Washington Wizards has sued his ex-manager Carl Williams, claiming that he embezzled millions ...

When bankruptcy litigator Beth Young moved April 11 from Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro to bankruptcy boutique Levene, ...

Semiconductor distributor Avnet Inc. plans to acquire rival Memec Group Holdings LTD in a stock and cash transaction valued at...

Talk about a mixer. For Orange County lawyers and judges, the Anti-Defamation League's annual Jurisprudence Awards dinner to h...

In a rare occurrence in cases against the government, attorney Michael Quinn was recently awarded litigation fees from the Sec...

The superpowered dispute between Marvel Enterprises and two software game companies took center stage recently before the Beve...

John Peterson, global chairman of Baker & McKenzie's tax practice group, says he would have hired Beth Williams sooner, bu...

Layn R. Phillips wears a loud, gambling-themed tie to every mediation he conducts. That's not because Phillips is a gambler hi...

The city of Los Angeles and leading Internet travel companies have leveled heady charges against each other in a recent legal ...

Lawyers at Public Counsel, Los Angeles' largest public interest law center, are experts in helping their clients leap legal hu...

Scott Morehouse isn't afraid of change. As April opened, he was a real estate partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Mayer...

Focus Column - Litigation - By David Martinez and Dean Martoccia - Rule 23(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides...

Forum Column - By Naomi Roht-Arriaza - It's the year 2030. Retired Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who, 27 years before - as U.S. comman...

LOS ANGELES - Pepperdine's new law school dean, Kenneth W. Starr, has a celebrity cachet to match his legal scholarship. So sk...

EXTRA Feature - She never wrote a word about it, but New York Times reporter Judith Miller faces jail time. A judge has sealed...