LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a racketeering claim arising from the Los Angeles Police...

LOS ANGELES - Hinshaw & Culbertson has hired three professional-liability partners from Los Angeles' Haight, Brown & B...

LOS ANGELES - A neighbors' tiff over a child's playhouse has landed in an appellate court, with justices finding Tuesday that ...

LOS ANGELES - A sweeping gag order issued at pop star Michael Jackson's court appearance Friday is unlikely to stem the rush o...

WASHINGTON - President Bush's decision to employ a rarely used technique to elevate a controversial Mississippi judge to a sea...

SANTA ANA - The American Bar Association discriminates against for-profit law schools, holding them to an unreachable standard...

Daniel Clivner sipped his champagne early this New Year's Eve. The Los Angeles lawyer was celebrating Time Inc.'s sale of Time...

San Diego attorney Scott Stanton wrapped up a $49 million deal during the holiday season. Stanton put the finishing touches on...

Michael McCarthy joined Sherman Oaks litigation firm Nemecek & Cole on Jan. 1 as a partner in the firm's professional liab...

Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Lee Jay Berman - Most mediations begin with the mediator's opening statement, muc...

Jonathan Kitchen and George Kalikman joined Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif as a package deal after practicing to...

Two companies that duked it out for 12 years over a patent found themselves in court again recently, this time sitting at the ...

An administrative law judge with the U.S. Department of Transportation has ruled that Miami-based Astar Air Cargo, formerly DH...

LOS ANGELES - It wasn't exactly Martha Stewart. But the culinary arts program offered to teen offenders doing time at Camp Scu...

Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has joined the ranks of Los Angeles-based law firms to move into the booming Las Vegas l...

Neil Falconer was the seventh lawyer at Steinhart & Falconer when he joined the San Francisco firm as a young associate in...

MarkMonitor, a Boise, Idaho-based company that provides software to help companies protect their intellectual property, will d...

A long-running feud between a top Santa Cruz law enforcement official and one of his chief critics erupted recently into a fre...

As counsel to Headwaters Inc., San Francisco attorney Linda Williams helped the energy company obtain $175 million in bank fin...

Superior Court judges have elected a former Los Angeles County deputy public defender to be a commissioner. Pennie McLaughlin ...

A federal judge in Los Angeles last month dismissed a securities fraud class action brought against Woodland Hills-based Synco...

Column - Humor - By Pierce O'Donnell - Larry King is getting a last-minute touch of makeup as his producer whispers in his ear...

Cowley & Chidester has teamed up with Holland & Knight, giving the Tampa, Fla.-based law firm its first office in the ...

Column - Technology - By Jack Lindauer - Ask any corporate executives or attorneys whether they think their phones might be ta...

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 ...