SAN JOSE - The California Supreme Court refused Monday to grant a new trial to two men convicted of killing a Brisbane woman, ...

Services are set for today for flamboyant Orange County criminal defense lawyer David A. Zimmerman. Zimmerman died of a heart ...

LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson's criminal defense lawyer will appeal a $18,950 sanction ordered after he referred to an unrelat...

LOS ANGELES - Michael H. Schill, a New York University law professor and leading scholar in housing law, has been appointed th...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a lawsuit to proceed that accuses the Archdiocese of Milwaukee of transferrin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Conservatives on an 11-judge federal appeals panel Monday failed to muster a six-vote majority to decide wheth...

Column By Garry Abrams - The now infamous Enron tapes, which immortalized "Grandma Millie" as the quintessential California su...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two years after Tower Snow gave Clifford Chance an opening into the California legal market by orchestrating t...

The field of structured settlements may soon face a major shift of power if the IRS makes a ruling changing the way it treats ...

Three new partners joined Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in the last two weeks, with one of them travelin...

A Southland man has filed a class action against food products titan Gruma Corp. and five supermarket chains for allegedly mon...

Column - Employment Law - By Dana Cephas - Many employment cases in California proceed like this: Plaintiff files suit, discov...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer who worked as coverage counsel for Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. for 13 years can't turn around and hi...

Column - Law Practice Management - By Trey Ryder - In these days of electronic communication, lawyers often overlook one of th...

New York's Proskauer Rose has tapped Michael Woronoff to build up the firm's West Coast corporate and securities practice. Wor...

Lerach Coughlin Stoia & Robbins has opened in New York and Boca Raton, Fla., a move the partners predicted when they annou...

After eight months of discussions, Newport Beach-based HirsonWexlerPerl has agreed to merge with New York's Fragomen, Del Rey,...

After a long trip through the courts, one man's racial-harassment lawsuit against Amtrak finally may have ended. A federal jur...

Century City litigator Brian Davidoff recently negotiated a $45 million insurance settlement for furnace contractor J.T. Thorp...

Washington, D.C.'s Hogan & Hartson has hired intellectual property lawyer Troy Schmelzer, who is joining the firm as partn...

Tyler Chase Harper wore a T-shirt to his San Diego-area school that read, "Homosexuality is shameful." The 16-year-old Christi...

Los Angeles-based health law firm Hooper, Lundy & Bookman opened its first office in San Diego on June 7 with Cary Miller,...

More allegations of sexual harassment and spying have surfaced against HootWinc, the franchisee of 17 Hooters restaurants oper...

Focus Column - Consumer Law - By Jan T. Chilton and William L. Stern - Fifteen years ago, a junior high school teacher named D...

Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - The Memorial Day weekend papers said it all: Iraqis finally being released after mont...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - A study released this week by the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Univers...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Parents comes in all shapes and sizes. There are those who are dedicated to the welfare of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Chevron USA isn't responsible for burns a worker suffered when a steam pipe burst at a Richmond laboratory bec...

LOS ANGELES - A San Bernardino Superior Court judge Friday denied an attorney's attempt to seek punitive damages in a Ford rol...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Santa Ana awarded $29 million in punitive damages Friday to a German film and television distr...