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...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by four "Avon ladies" who claimed the company shipped th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The fight to build a radioactive waste repository in the Mojave Desert long ago faded from the headlines, a re...

SAN JOSE - With interviews scheduled to begin today for the soon-to-be vacant Santa Clara County public defender's position, ...

LOS ANGELES - The defense in Michael Jackson's child molestation case needs to fail. If Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. and his defense...

INDUSTRIAL CITY OF INDUSTRY - Tetra Tech Industries purchased a 44,118-square-foot industrial building at 19481 San Jose Ave. ...

Focus Column - Immigration Law -By Mark Ivener - Most American employers are quite familiar with the first provision of the I...

Column - Employment - By John E. Lattin IV - Year in and year out, the recently concluded NCAA men's basketball tournament is ...

Letter to the Editor - Republican leaders in the House reached an agreement that will place embryonic stem cell research on Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and one of its biggest creditors scoffed at Tower Snow Jr.'s clai...

SAN FRANCISCO - It didn't take long for the lawyers suing the makers of a popular anti-depressant over allegedly dangerous sid...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles homeowner is out of luck in trying to collect on his insurance policy for landslide damage cause...