LOS ANGELES - Tax specialist Gary A. Herrmann is the latest partner to defect from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe to Morga...

LOS ANGELES - Supervising Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David S. Wesley has banned discovery before preliminary hear...

WASHINGTON - The outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court free speech battle involving a whistle-blowing Los Angeles County prosecutor...

LOS ANGELES - Ending weeks of maneuvering over who would preside over the wiretapping, racketeering and conspiracy trial of c...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles is helping hunt for the leaker who gave the Sacramento Bee sealed cour...

SAN FRANCISCO -.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed three attorneys to the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday. Thoma...

LOS ANGELES - Shelline Bennett has joined Liebert Cassidy Whitmore as managing partner of the firm's Fresno office. Bennett wa...

SAN FRANCISCO - From a Financial District office high above San Francisco's Front Street, Covington & Burling intellectual...

Focus Column - By Steven B. Katz - A consensus of sorts has emerged to settle one of the most hotly contested issues in Califo...

Employment Column - By Mary Dollarhide - Work-force reductions are a fact of American life. For the first 11 months of 2005, 1...

Forum Column - By Rene L. Robin - Sonoma County vineyards and vintners can breathe a sigh of relief over the decision by the U...

LOS ANGELES - In the mid-1970s, Charles D. Field squared off with labor leader Cesar Chavez in a bitter contractual dispute th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Toni "TJ" Carlini Jr. has been around hogs his whole life. As the son of a chopper industry pioneer, Toni Car...

LOS ANGELES - Tom Talbot made $67,000 off a nonpublic stock tip he picked up as a board member of Fidelity National Financial...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Proposition 77 rightly made its way to the November special election ballot despi...

LOS ANGELES - While clearly distancing himself from the recent controversy surrounding the clemency petition for death-row in...

LOS ANGELES - John Stodder Jr. may be waiting to go on trial in April for fraud, but for the first time in his life, he's free...

SAN FRANCISCO - One day after Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman managers addressed staff employees in a firmwide teleconference ...

INTERIM SUSPENSIONS - Samelson, Lawrence David , Sacramento ETHICS SUSPENSIONS Bendel, Randy E. , West Hills Krayevsky, Dmitry...

ARBITRATION RULING - Federal law trumps state law when two parties agree to arbitrate a dispute under the Federal Arbitration ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom joined former Sen. John Edwards and actor Danny Glover in a downtown rally We...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Following a recent spate of violence at Los Angeles County jails, Sheriff Lee Baca s...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - On Feb. 5 - better known as Super Bowl Sunday in the land of the First Amendment - the Americ...

Focus Column - By Hina Ahmad - On Dec. 1, the Securities and Exchange Commission ushered in sweeping reforms to the Securities...

Focus Column - By David Evans and Scott Bloom - California's legal malpractice statute of limitations (Code of Civil Procedure...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Los Angeles tax attorney Jeanine Jacobs Goldberg. Goldberg, a partner with Centur...

SACRAMENTO - To comply with a federal judge's order, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Wednesd...

LOS ANGELES - Wearing a black sweater with a hood and dark jeans, Joann Wiggan, a 33-year veteran of the telephone industry, s...

LOS ANGELES - As Merck & Co. girds itself to defend against thousands of lawsuits around the country related to its painki...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Tia Fisher a promotion Wednesda...