Intellectual property litigator David S. Bloch jumped from associate to partner by leaving Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in...

J. Rod Betts joined San Diego labor boutique Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton as an employment law partner on Jan. 2. ...

Seven patients of San Francisco's historic Laguna Honda Hospital have decided there's no place like home, and, after three yea...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Jennifer Stanley - Licensees seeking ownership of modifications that they make to li...

Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to review Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, a case in which...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether authorities can imprison indefinitely hundreds of illegal-alien ...

The legal landscape is changing. Officials up and down the state are struggling to make up for budget shortfalls and keep cour...

LOS ANGELES - No decision was reached Friday on making public reams of confidential data from General Motors Corp. on vehicle ...

After a decadelong battle with its insurer, a utility holding company robbed by one of its own executives can collect $12.5 mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - No one disputes that Joseph O'Flaherty calls them as he sees them. But sometimes - critics, supporters and O'F...

LOS ANGELES - The state will appeal a Los Angeles Superior Court order striking down legislation that lets insurance companies...

Column By Garry Abrams - On Friday, while other Los Angeles lawyers toil over contracts, wills, lawsuits and celebrity felony ...

LOS ANGELES -Plaintiffs' attorney Garo Mardirossian is not just trying to win a case. He wants to reform the auto industry. To...

Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Although firms allow their secretaries and other staff to take lunch breaks, they often ...

Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - In October, the Governor's Office of Planning and Research promulgated the...

LOS ANGELES - In the midst of trying to settle civil litigation in the church sexual abuse scandal, Bishop of Orange Tod Brown...

SANTA ROSA - Accused batterer Curtis Lubiszewski, a California Highway Patrol officer, is entitled under state law to the retu...

Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - SAN FRANCISCO - In the case of the incredible shrinking punitive damage award, cancer patient P...

LOS ANGELES - Johnny Ray Gasca is set to be the first person in the nation to face federal charges of recording theatrical fil...

LOS ANGELES - A small statue of an African-American Civil War soldier rests atop Judge John T. Doyle's desk in his Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ernest "Bud" Arnold, the last surviving name partner of San Francisco's Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, ...

LOS ANGELES - By striking down part of the 2003 Protect Act, U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian has become the first to plu...

SAN FRANCISCO - As a young lawyer, Paul Slavit had little sympathy for colleagues who rushed into court late, suit disheveled,...

SAN FRANCISCO - An orphan who bonded with his San Francisco foster parents as a toddler in the 1950s and later cared for them ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court monitor recommended criminal contempt-of-court sanctions Thursday for Edward Alameida, the for...

LOS ANGELES - Loeb & Loeb is acquiring Beverly Hills corporate boutique Richman, Mann, Chizever, Phillips & Duboff. Th...

Notebook - By John Roemer - SAN FRANCISCO - A harsh welcome for would-be refugees by U.S. authorities in asylum cases dims Lad...

LOS ANGELES - Reed Smith Crosby Heafey, noted for its emphasis on life sciences and finance law, will acquire bicoastal advert...

SACRAMENTO - A lawmaker's proposal to reform the grand jury system, drafted in response to a grand jury investigation of the O...

Column By Garry Abrams - A move by the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles to disqualify combative maverick federal civil ri...