LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Ethics Commission on Monday became the third enforcement agency to file campaign finance ch...

LOS ANGELES - The former manager at a Hooters restaurant in West Covina who secretly taped 14 applicants changing into waitres...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' district attorney office Monday lost its bid to reinstate the guilty verdicts of three police offic...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday reinstated a 4-year-old copyright infringement suit accusing one-time pop diva ...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court reinstated parts of an employment lawsuit Monday, saying an at-will employer who makes false ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal court in Los Angeles this week will hold the first-ever criminal trial pursued under a four-year-old l...

SANTA BARBARA - Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall, whose private spat with a former live-in girlfriend ended in a drunken dri...

Column By Garry Abrams - Singin' Ken Lay, the former Enron chairman and current personification of corporate evil, raised the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision, Blakely v. Washington, 2004 DJDAR 7581, could force two-stage...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys who prepare confidential files for use in mediation need not worry anymore that the files will be pr...

LOS ANGELES - California's medical malpractice law, cited by President Bush as a national model for reform, has reduced awards...

Column - Employment - By Valerie Fontaine - Rejection is an integral part of any job search process, so every job seeker must ...

One year after joining Newport Beach's Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, patent attorney Louis "Chip" Cullman has left for ...

LOS ANGELES - A major legal battle over claims that writers on the TV comedy "Friends" fantasized aloud about sex with star Je...

Masters & Ribakoff, a three-person alternative dispute resolution group that specializes in negotiating employment dispute...

SAN FRANCISCO - The heads of two key units in the U.S. attorney's office as well as other experienced prosecutors are leaving,...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victor H. Person is so popular with the civil attorneys who appear before him t...

In what will be the company's largest acquisition to date, Scottsdale, Ariz.-based retail software distributor JDA Software Gr...

The adage "there's no place like home" is especially true for Carson condo owner Deloris Farmer. Farmer, 53, will soon be able...

The Los Angles office of Jenkens & Gilchrist welcomed its first intellectual property attorney with the hire of former Lor...

The Scene drove up to the Beverly Hilton, already running behind, but hoping to catch a few minutes of the cocktail hour of Pu...

Ever since a blaze scorched the office of former Salinas Fire Marshal Norcliff Wiley two years ago, the press has unfairly pok...

With millions of dollars hanging on a contract provision about "penetration of body parts, erect genitalia and ejaculation," t...

Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko has added six attorneys to its corporate practice in the last two months. The firm has one 19-atto...

Carlsbad ski maker K2 plans to shell out $200 million to buy three rival companies: Volkl Sports Holding AG, The Marker Group ...

In what the company's attorney says is the city's largest commercial lease in two years, children's clothing retailer Gymboree...

Within the last two weeks, Duane Morris has lured partners Robert Copeland, Stuart Sorenson and P. Blake Allen from San Diego’...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg, Matthew T. Wakefield and Sabrina A. Beldner - In the landmark decisio...

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Today, there are 110 death row inmates around the country, improperly sentenced under unc...

SAN FRANCISCO - The owner of a Berkeley restaurant has appealed a federal appeals court ruling that it is bound by the city's ...