Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Terri R. Brown - In environment-friendly California, it behooves counsel for both plaint...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court indicated Monday it will reverse a decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ropes & Gray, a prominent East Coast corporate and litigation firm, has acquired Fish & Neave, one of...

Column - By Garry Abrams - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft launched a trial balloon over Washington, D.C., last week, and ...

LOS ANGELES - A San Pedro priest can pursue his slander suit against a woman who claimed the cleric was exploiting a now-dece...

LOS ANGELES - To help educate tort lawyers on the state of litigation surrounding the controversial painkiller Vioxx, hundreds...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether convicted felons may use the federal Voting Rights Act t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who underwent a forced abortion under China's family control policies need not prove authorities phys...

LOS ANGELES - Michael Sklar took the stand in U.S. Tax Court on Monday to explain why he has waged a seven-year legal battle a...

VISALIA - The colorful painting on the wall where Valeriano Saucedo now works is a stark reminder of where he came from. "The ...

LOS ANGELES - If Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald V. Skyers completes his autobiography, "From the Banana Field to the...

RIVERSIDE - The developer of a condominium resort and marina at Big Bear Lake has sued three U.S. Forest Service employees and...

John Hunter has been a land use attorney for the majority of his career, from the state government to the Building Industry As...

It took eight months and hundreds of attorneys, but last month Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless joined forces to create...

Reuniting with old friends and colleagues, litigator James K. Lee joined the Los Angeles office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart ...

Thomas Levyn, a Beverly Hills councilman and three-time mayor, joined Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Sh...

For thousands of Armenian-Americans, New York Life Insurance Co.'s $20 million settlement with beneficiaries of World War I-er...

SAN FRANCISCO - Since Coudert Brothers became the first international law firm to open an office in Beijing 25 years ago, mor...

SACRAMENTO - Fresh out of Harvard Law School in the late 1960s, Michael Sorgen came to San Francisco and volunteered to help t...

Responding to its increasing client base in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles employment boutique Roxborough, Pomerance &am...

Joel D. Ruben has a few tricks up his sleeve. But the Los Angeles sole practitioner only shares them with children. Ruben star...

After dogs mauled to death a 6-year-old boy in the Northern California town of Red Bluff, the family's lawyer predictably sued...

Consumer attorneys aren't pleased with last week's election results cutting short fellow trial lawyer John Edwards' and John K...

A Los Angeles inventor last month won a $400 million punitive damages verdict in a patent tug-of-war that pitted Dr. Gary Mich...

Like many Southern Californians, Michael Corfield has a passion for surfing. Unlike most, he's managed to turn that passion in...

During the flurry of unexpected October storms, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi blasted insurers for the way they handle...

Selling high-priced children's playhouses may seem an odd way to raise money for homeless shelters, but law-office administrat...

EXTRA Closer Column - Law Firm Management - By Kristine L. Collins - Law firms face revenue challenges because of current comp...

Frank Yates launched a courtroom attack against his former employer, American Medical Wholesale, for placing him in a racially...

Letter to the Editor - Riverside County District Attorney Grover Trask has announced that his office will be filing "blanket c...