Sharon Klein, formerly of Philadelphia's Pepper Hamilton, joined the corporate practice at Newport Beach's Stradling, Yocca, C...

Column - Intellectual Property - By Mark E. Terman - Trade secret cases come with discovery and disclosure issues that are not...

SAN BERNARDINO - Judge J. Michael "Mike" Welch doesn't rattle easily. That's what makes him so effective as San Bernardino Sup...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge affirmed a $3 million award June 17 granted to a Van Nuys-based clothing company by a panel...

Raymond Erickson, a 73-year-old Santa Cruz retiree who successfully sued American Airlines in small-claims court, is looking f...

After voting July 15 to dissolve Arter & Hadden, a group of former partners in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Cleveland ha...

It turns out the sometimes a win doesn't always mean a win. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin Lager found June 11 that t...

Miami's Greenberg Traurig has hired patent lawyer Mark Krietzman from Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. Krietzman joined the...

Column - Expert Witnesses - By Carole Levitt and Jim Robinson - At least once in their careers, most attorneys need to locate ...

With no technology rebound in sight, Mountain View's Fenwick & West has voted to lay off a significant portion of its Wash...

The Scene walked into the Beverly Hilton on June 25 to find the room brimming with excitement. It was Public Counsel's annual ...

Happier days are here for the world of initial public offerings. Five companies went public in late June and early July, reviv...

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer isn't making quite the same splash in tackling securities fraud as his New York count...

San Francisco's Vivato Inc., which makes wireless-networking technology, has raised $45 million in a third round of financing....

Cooley Godward is reaching into its past to shore up its life sciences and technology transactions groups. Diane W. Savage, wh...

A 12-year-old boy's trauma caused by watching his Rottweiler shot to death by a policeman has led to a $6 million lawsuit file...

Santa Monica's Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket has hired real estate partner Michael Brill away from Troy & Gould, where B...

LOS ANGELES - John Emerson, who has advised a U.S. president and city officials, is singing a new tune as chairman of Music Ce...

Graduates of Pepperdine University School of Law who dream of assisting the poor and underserved may receive a helping hand ne...

Attorney Marshall Bitkower is coughing and wheezing as he walks through the small, dim townhouse of his client, Toni Jackson. ...

Gerald Swiss, a biotechnology patent prosecutor and licensing attorney, left intellectual property firm Burns, Doane, Swecker ...

Focus Column - Environmenal Law - By Jon K. Wactor - The United States has lost more than half of its wetlands as the populati...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Michele A. Staples and Alene M. Taber - On June 17, the Riverside County Board of Superv...

Forum Column - By Michael P. Judge, John J. Vacca and Ronald Yorizane - On June 25, the Los Angeles Daily Journal ran a story ...

LOS ANGELES - Three weeks after it lured 12 insurance lawyers from San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, Duane Mo...

SANTA ANA - Former Newport Beach recreation director Trenton Michael Veches, who was convicted in May of sucking the toes of n...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge James Warren, the grandson of a former U.S. Supreme Court justice, who recently presided ...

FRESNO - Civility is not optional in Judge Kent "Buck" Levis' courtroom. It says so in bold, capital letters at the bottom of ...

WASHINGTON - The federal government's case against the alleged 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could be the ul...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Israeli Arab, repeatedly attacked by fellow Israeli citizens for his ethnicity and religion, deserves asylu...