SAN FRANCISCO - Former employees of the defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison can proceed with their lawsuit against Philade...

LOS ANGELES - Responding to complaints that state inmates in a prison jobs program were not paid fairly or even at all, a San ...

OAKLAND - Alameda Superior Court Judge Lawrence John Appel has a definite view of what does - and what does not - constitute a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge Tuesday ordered the city of San Francisco to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples or to ...

By Draeger Martinez Business litigator and labor lawyer Theresa Kristovich has joined the Los Angeles office of Gordon & ...

Column Appellate Insights By Daniel M. Kolkey Most lawyers learn to distinguish unfavorable precedent. Few learn to distingui...

By Liz Valsamis Employment firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart has added Lori Bowman as a partner in its Los An...

By Draeger Martinez The breakup of Los Angeles litigation firm O'Neill Lysaght & Sun last year catapulted the firm's 20 a...

By Erik Cummins Known primarily as an employment and labor firm, Chicago's Seyfarth Shaw has lured venture capital and emergi...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda A Fresno attorney accuses local education officials of "whitewashing" a hazing incident in which female hi...

By Erik Cummins Matthew Fisher is no economist, he says, but he has seen a revival of venture capital and emerging company wo...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda As a high-school student in Basking Ridge, N.J., Peter J. Searle heard the frustrations of his fellow clas...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Manuel Real took just a few seconds Friday to dismiss the latest federal action from Stephen...

By Stefanie Knapp A single study performed by Yale doctors prompted pharmaceutical companies to pull cold and allergy medicin...

By Toni Vranjes When Maguire Properties Inc. went public in June, it was delving into uncharted territory. The company was th...

By Toni Vranjes Three months after his client signed a letter of intent to be acquired by a health care company, Fred Koenen ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association has rated eight judicial candidates, including a sitting judge who has b...

By Amy K. Spees A dispute between a medical group and a hospital has erupted into three lawsuits that have one party on the h...

By Draeger Martinez SunCal Cos., an Irvine-based developer of master planned communities, recently named veteran real estate ...

Column Law Firm Marketing By Kate Fitzgerald The first quarter of every new year is the time when corporations look for new c...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda The city of Fresno recently settled a defamation claim for $60,000 after the chair of its Human Relations ...

By Pamela A. MacLean The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area recently honored several attorneys for their eff...

By Liz Valsamis After serving as general counsel of MediaLive International Holdings for the last three years, Jeryl A. Bower...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda The Los Angeles County Bar Association recently shut down its Internet discussion forum for litigators aft...

By Stefanie Knapp Joining the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles at its annual installation dinner dance Jan. 31, ...

Focus Column Intellectual Property By John T. McNelis "We have an invention but don't want to spend a lot of money protecting...

Forum Column By Vicky Barker and Bethany Leal January marked the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. California - always ahead of...

Forum Column By John Norton Moore, Malvina Halberstam and Tony Onorato For nearly a decade, Congress and the executive branch...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Tennison, who spent 13 years in state prison for murder before he was exonerated in October, has filed a...

LOS ANGELES - A salesman for a company that sprays on truck bed liners has won a jury verdict of $11.3 million for a 2001 acc...