Elham Ardestani didn't expect to win when she applied for a Warren Christopher Scholarship as a high school sophomore in 1999....

Column - Adviser - By David Perry - When tracking communications was largely a matter of reviewing phone records and written m...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Jonathan Fraser Light - The human resources manager squirmed on the witness stand as the jur...

Stellar credentials helped African-American attorney Geoffrey Gibbs land at a Los Angeles telecommunications satellite firm in...

AirIQ Inc., which makes wireless communications systems that send information to and from vehicles, has purchased Aircept.com,...

It was a long, twisted road for Beckman Coulter, a Fullerton-based manufacturer of medical measurement and research devices. ...

In what will create the largest gaming company in the world to date, Harrah's Entertainment Inc. plans to purchase Caesars Ent...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - A spate of lawyers allegedly caught with their hands in the clients' kitty, including one who committed suic...

A catchphrase on a local tourism trade group Web site describes Mendocino as "a county of timeless villages and rugged natural...

William J. Emanuel, the former head of the labor and employment group at the Los Angeles office of Jones Day, has moved to San...

Hogan & Hartson brought its Los Angeles intellectual property group up to 25 attorneys with the addition of former Quinn E...

SAN FRANCISCO - A popular three-minute Web animation satirizing America's bitter partisan politics has become more than a laug...

Companies that buy patents to make profits solely by suing alleged infringers are the "ambulance chasers" of the intellectual-...

Forum Column - By Pamela Frasch - The law is no different from anything else in life: Looks can be deceiving. Strong laws don'...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By Daniel V. Grinnell - Judging from the adverse reaction from fellow attendees at a recent MCLE...

NORWALK - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge refused Friday to reinstate four former Orange County prosecutors who claimed the...

SANTA ANA - A man convicted of murdering a La Habra Heights attorney, later setting fire to his hilltop home, will serve a sen...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Judith A. Williams, a labor and contract attorney and an active member of the Wome...

LOS ANGELES - A court fight over a controversial state fire protection fee short-circuited last week when the state Legislatur...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge and a local family lawyer, enmeshed in litigation stemming from the judge's divorce, hav...

SAN FRANCISCO - ChevronTexaco Corp. wants a skeptical federal judge to ask the Bush administration if allowing a human rights ...

SACRAMENTO - In an extraordinary, controversial maneuver, prosecutors in rural Yolo County have filed charges against three cr...

SACRAMENTO - A California appellate court has ruled for the first time that an initiative that asks for voter approval on two ...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - One of the most entertaining aspects to covering the courts is seeing how breathtakingly broad ar...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1973, President Nixon's White House lawyer, Leonard Garment, asked a young federal prosecutor in Baltimore ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Several death row inmates tried in Alameda County in the 1980s have alleged in pending appeals that their tria...

SAN FRANCISCO - The powerful prison guards' union capitulated on a major sticking point in its revised contract just days afte...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers say legislation sent to the governor Thursday that would give California 75 percent of punitive dam...

Forum Column - By Wendy J. Murphy - As many predicted, Judge Terry Ruckriegle ruled that the sex life of Kobe Bryant's alleged...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By Bruce W. Blakely - Attorney-fee clauses are an essential element of any contract if an aggrie...