Growing up in Orange County piqued Mike Alvarado's interest in becoming a real estate lawyer. "It was inescapable to notice re...

Appellate attorney Ted Boutrous probably didn't think that, the first time he met Shaquille O'Neal, the 300-pound basketball s...

Six months after becoming vice chair of the Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, attorney Elena Baca h...

For Bingham McCutchen partner Lawrence Silverstein, the timing of the merger between his Boston-based firm and Los Angeles' Ri...

Column - Tort Reform - By Andrea Mosmann - The tort reform debate has raged for years. Tort reform advocates blame supposedly ...

Focus Column - Securities Law - By Jay C. Gandhi - On March 12, 2004, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake issued her decisi...

Forum Column - By Wendy J. Murphy - I bought my first Martha Stewart Living magazine the other day. I have no intention of coo...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Steven G. Mehta - Everyone who has attended a mediation probably has had th...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge has ruled that an ordinance limiting picketing in residential areas "somewhat curtails" free speec...

FULLERTON - A 72-year-old former priest Friday received a six-month jail sentence for molesting a teenage parishioner in the b...

LOS ANGELES - Thirteen California lawyers are seeking election to spots on the State Bar board of dg governors for 2004-05, in...

SANTA ANA - The road to accreditation for Orange County's oldest law school just got a little longer. The American Bar Associa...

LOS ANGELES - When an outspoken Roman Catholic lay chaplain was barred from Los Angeles Men's Central Jail for criticizing con...

LOS ANGELES - Of the 12 boys who spent their teenage years in Bausch Cottage at Hillside Children's Center in Rochester, N.Y.,...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has joined together two lawsuits seeking to give same-sex couples the right to marry. Su...

SANTA ANA - "Mayday!" firefighter Floyd Hiser shouted into the radio of the helicopter he was piloting. "I have a flameout. I'...

You're standing in the Court, all nine Supremes in your face, before you notice your nightgown ...

Employment Column - By Elizabeth Lampert and Diane E. Hamlin - Speaking engagements are an essential component of every succes...

Forum Column - By Wendy J. Murphy - The prosecution of Kobe Bryant had commentators and columnists early on questioning whethe...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David Pettit and Michael Schafler - Ratification of the 14th Amendment was motivated by ...

LOS ANGELES - A technical problem at the 2nd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday resulted in the wrong opinion's being posted ...

SANTA ANA - Ruling the names are too similar, a federal judge enjoined organizers of the "Newport Beach Boat Show" from using ...

SANTA CLARA - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser will take the stand in his own defense when his trial on ...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Thursday ruled that a Santa Barbara doctor did not have to turn over a patient's medical r...

SANTA ANA - The looming budget cuts for trial courts have given civil ligitators here an acute attack of arachnophobia. They f...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man convicted of having oral sex with a minor shouldn't have to register as a sex offender because people co...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of William G. Myers III for the 9th U.S. Circu...

LOS ANGELES - Gregory Weingart will rejoin Munger, Tolles & Olson after serving as chief of the major fraud section at the...

LOS ANGELES - When Terry L. Smerling joined the Legal Aid Foundation of Long Beach in 1970 as a recent Columbia Law School gra...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit against the U.S. government Thursday, asking a court to r...