WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the prosecution of former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ron...
International
Bush's Order May Make Mexican's Death-Penalty Appeal Moot
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday acknowledged that it faced weighty, difficult questions in deciding whether federal ...
LOS ANGELES - The skeletal remains found in the chimney of an abandoned halfway house in South Los Angeles over the weekend b...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mercedes calls the S500 "the world's premier luxury sedan." But the Las Vegas woman who found the brakes were...
SANTA ANA - The mother of the man on trial for kidnapping and killing 5-year-old Samantha Runnion was excused from the witnes...
Criminal
Coming Soon to Fox News: Cooley and Blake in 'The Very Odd Couple'
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley comes home from a hard day at the office and greets his ...
Civil Rights
Jury Bias Hearings Casts Light on Prosecutorial Code of Silence
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The legal community saw last week how prosecutors react when one of their own turns himself in, 16 years late...
LOS ANGELES - In a major blow to Michael Jackson's defense, a judge will allow the jury to hear testimony that the pop singer ...
HAYWARD - The Oakland Diocese knew that one of its priests was a serial child molester, but church officials shuffled him from...
LOS ANGELES - Cristin Zeisler has been both a large-firm corporate attorney and a professional do-gooder. But what she really ...
After four years of quarreling with local resident Philip J. Feiner Jr.'s "willful defiance" over the height of the hedge in h...
Even before the mergers that made them part of global megafirm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Esther Lardent says, leaders at th...
Appellate Practice
Court Allows Sargon to Collect Lawyer Fees From USC
By Draeger Martinez
Two years after winning a jury verdict in its patent infringement dispute with USC, dental-appliance maker Sargon Lazarof and ...
Roberto Moreno had worked 11 years as the finance director for the city of King City when the City Council met in closed sessi...
In a move that whittles its Southern California office to 10 attorneys, the Los Angeles office of Hancock, Rothert & Bunsh...
Column Law - Firm Management - By Sharon Berman - The online marketing world has changed dramatically since the years when peo...
Queen bees, wannabes and everyone in between showed up for the 5th annual Lantern Awards luncheon and fund-raiser March 16. ...
As the former director and founder of the Public Health Trust in Oakland, Marice Ashe had pretty lofty goals when interviewing...
Rick Cohen uses the language of romance to describe his firm's recent merger with eight-attorney Phoenix firm Anderson Brody L...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers involved in pending clergy sex abuse cases offered conflicting views of the significance of the first...
Los Angeles litigation boutique O'Donnell Shaeffer Mortimer lost a partner this month in a move that gave Sonnenschein Nath &a...
Once it became apparent that Los Angeles-based Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger would merge with Phoenix firm Anderson B...
INDUSTRIAL RIVERSIDE - Rolling Hills Frito-Lay purchased a 23.5-acre lot in the Agua Mansa Industrial Center from Lowe Enterpr...
After detouring past a police sport utility vehicle deployed in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel to park on bustling Sunset Dr...
A year ago, Emery Mitchell, of-counsel at Shearman & Sterling, and Shane Byrne, chairman of Baker & McKenzie's corpora...
Employee Benefits
Former EBay Workers Sue Over Stock-Option Changes
By Draeger Martinez
In the days when computer-powered fortunes jumped and fell seemingly every day, the phrase "stock options" caught the interest...
Real Estate/Development
Developer Has Plans for Project in Heart of Hollywood
By Geneva Whitmarsh
At some point, the glitz and glamour of Hollywood Boulevard began to wear off, and spray paint and litter took its place. ...
Century City health care firm Hooper, Lundy & Bookman represented Integrated Health Care Holdings in its acquisition of fo...
Sen. Sheila Kuehl encouraged the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights to honor Bruce Broillet again in 10 years, saying...
Energy finance attorney David Spielberg has plugged himself into a new circuit. A former partner with Stoel Rives, Spielberg j...