Two months into his new tenure as managing partner of the downtown Los Angeles and Century City outposts of Morrison & Foe...

Blockbuster Ups Ante for Video Chain Hollywood Entertainment Video giant Blockbuster Inc. announced early this month that it ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says it's taking the initiative in cracking down on illegal aliens committing crim...

EXTRA Closer Column - Law Firm Management - By Lin M. Meyer - In a field in which job satisfaction for many is relatively low,...

Beverly Hills trial attorney Michael Alder created quite a stir at the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles' 56th Ann...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched re...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Aimee Mackay and Catherine Valerio Barrad - It's not often that an appellate advocate has th...

Forum Column - By Ronald P. Sokol - The Queen of Hearts had "only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off w...

Forum Column - By Frederick J. Ufkes - On Feb. 3, 2005, the 2nd District Court of Appeal issued its decision in Lockheed Litig...

SALT LAKE CITY - Responding to budget cuts from the White House and to a new report on criminal defense needs, the American Ba...

SAN FRANCISCO - In October 1950, 15 years before he became staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, William Tay...

After its Jan. 1 merger with Taiwan Commercial Law Offices in Taipei, Taiwan, Preston, Gates & Ellis is strengthening its ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge L. Jeffrey Wiatt, who presided over some of Los Angeles County's most notorious...

SAN BERNARDINO - Public Defender John Roth resigned Friday because of concerns from officials that he gave the county a black...

LOS ANGELES - The widow of a sheriff's deputy killed in last month's deadly Metrolink derailment is set to file today the firs...

EXTRA Feature - California is finally moving up instead of out. After decades of dealing with a housing crisis by expanding su...

SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense lawyer Karol Martin Repkow resigned from the Sacramento public defender's office in 2001 so s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, the spurned suitor of the late Venture Law Group, has persuaded five form...

SANTA BARBARA - A judge has levied a $277,000 fine against a developer in the equestrian-friendly community of Hope Ranch for...

SAN FRANCISCO - Inmates in nine western states now have a shot at getting their prison terms reduced under a ruling from the U...

SAN JOSE - Wrongly convicted of murder, a Santa Clara man has filed suit against the county with a novel claim - his co-defen...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Peter D. Lichtman was pushed aside this week as mediator for the massive Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdi...

INDUSTRIAL OAKLAND - Vertis Inc. signed a 10-year, $7.3 million lease for a 143,852-square-foot warehouse at 1345 Doolittle D...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. will get another chance to argue that it should be able to mount a home turf challenge against a F...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the matter of the Estate of Coplan , 2004 DJDAR 13707 (Nov. 9, 2004), ...

Letters to the Editor - Your article calling a man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia a "nut" is not only offensive but als...

Employment Column - By Rod M. Fliegel and Justin Curley - On Dec. 15, 2004, California's new Megan's Law Web site was unveiled...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for George L. Pugsley, a retired Los Angeles Municipal Court commissioner. Pugsley, wh...

SANTA ANA - A visibly shaken lead witness in the gang-rape retrial of three young men told the judge Thursday that she was co...

WASHINGTON - In the first congressional hearing on the Supreme Court's recent ruling that all but struck down the federal sen...