SAN FRANCISCO - After investing 40 years in making a name for himself in intellectual property law, Ronald Laurie has given up...

LOS ANGELES - Holocaust survivors who accuse an international commission of unlawfully processing World War II-era insurance c...

Ann Kane Smith has left Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella where she served as chair of the employment ...

LOS ANGELES - O'Melveny & Myers is one of those rare law firms with any number of top-notch former federal prosecutors who...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Joan E. Feldman - The ease with which computers create, distribute and store information has...

Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, an 80-lawyer business and litigation firm, now has seven lawyers in its appellate department...

Column - Humor - By Pierce O'Donnell - High above Manhattan, CBS executives are gathering in an ornate conference room. White-...

Los Angeles music litigator Don Engel has signed on the dotted line with Century City litigation boutique Fox & Spillane. ...

Column - Litigation Strategy - By Lara Giese Jesic And David Hunter - Selecting jurors is a tricky business. Some lawyers beli...

Korea-based petroleum products exporter Kohap Ltd. won a $13.7 million judgment Feb. 3 in its breach-of-contract suit against ...

Ruling in what one attorney calls a test case, a Superior Court judge recently told the state Department of Fish and Game that...

As executive vice president and general counsel for Vivendi Universal Entertainment, Karen Randall faces a formidable array of...

Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel put together a $120 million financing deal for two mixed-income apartment complexes in Norther...

Steve Strauss, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch litigation partner, has several multimillion-dollar verdicts under his...

While Santa Barbara County District Attorney Thomas Sneddon earnestly pursues Michael Jackson on child-molestation charges, ap...

At first glance the water-stained, warped, brown leather briefcase belonging to Loeb & Loeb founder Edwin Loeb isn't much ...

Compared to the multibillion-dollar accounting scandals of the year before, 2003 was a lackluster time in the bankruptcy world...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - Laurie L. Levenson - Whether a court should allow evidence that another person may have been res...

Following are statements from four candidates for a judgeship on the Santa Barbara Superior Court and nine candidates for judg...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Jeffrey O'Connell and Brent Tantillo - Want to earn big fat fees for little to no work or risk, d...

Reid Weingarten, a white-collar criminal defense partner at Steptoe & Johnson, has had a year unlike any other in his care...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for U.S. District Judge Harry L. Hupp. Hupp died Jan. 27 at his Pasadena home ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rocked by a series of scandals over officer misconduct and pressured by two state senators, the head of Califo...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's personnel board has upheld the firing of Thomas Spielbauer, the veteran public defender who wa...

WASHINGTON - By taking its third war-on-terrorism case for this term, the Supreme Court has agreed to cover the field of issue...

WASHINGTON - Democrats and liberal interest groups said President Bush's controversial judicial recess appointment on Friday w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sooner or later the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether gay marriages are legitimate, several constitutiona...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco has sided with the movie industry to ban the sale of software designed to al...

LOS ANGELES - If Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter D. Lichtman had not heeded the wise advice of his stepfather 28 years ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles federal judge has thrown out a scientist's claim that he helped invent key DNA sequencing techno...