WASHINGTON - The Senate will vote today on a motion to allow for a final up-or-down vote on a nominee for the U.S. Court of Fe...
SACRAMENTO - In a ruling that prevents some claims by unlicensed contractors injured on the job, the California Supreme Court ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has upheld a $20,000 verdict against Alameda County and controversial former probation...
SANTA ANA - The Orange County Register was slapped with a class action Monday alleging that the newspaper company classifies i...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jet-Crash Victims' Families Settle for $11.7 Million
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The families of three of the 18 people who died in a 2001 charter jet crash in Aspen agreed Monday to a last-min...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Judge in Pot Case 'Looking for a Hook' to Help Collective
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal judge sympathized with the operators of a Santa Cruz County cooperative seeking an injunction to grow med...
Entertainment & Sports
Lawyer's Motion to Withdraw From Pooh Case Is Official Secret
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - It may be a cold, blustery, nasty, very expensive day in Winnie the Pooh Litigation Land before the n...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Monday to reconsider political asylum for an unmarried Chinese couple who fled ...
SAN LUIS OBISPO - Attorney James McKiernan is taking a novel approach in an attempt to obtain compensation for the death of a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When the judge's gavel fell last December, it resolved the fight over the ball. When the auctioneer's gavel fe...
Forum Column - By Reid Alan Cox - The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken, and according to a five-justice majority in Grutter v....
It's not every day that your client is the California Supreme Court. But Nancy Pritikin of San Francisco's Littler Mendelson r...
In another massive biotechnology deal, Biogen Inc. and Idec Pharmaceuticals Corp. have agreed to merge in a multibillion-dolla...
Sean Kneafsey has left Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman to get in at the ground level of Los Angeles' Palmer & Lombardi. Kne...
Australian bank Macquarie Infrastructure Group has closed a $773-million financing deal that paves the way for construction to...
FAIRFIELD - Solano County Superior Court Judge R. Michael Smith has a knack for details, and he uses it both in the courtroom ...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In what is being called one of the largest office leases in the Inland Empire during the past two years, St...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Life Sciences Firms Finish Plan for $70 Million Merger
By Toni Vranjes
Life sciences companies Caliper Technologies Corp. and Zymark Corp. are based on opposite sides of the country, but they're ab...
Almost every one of Baker & McKenzie's multinational deals lately has included questions about executive compensation, emp...
Nancy Newman and Susan O'Neill have known each other for years. They've attended continuing education courses and bar associat...
LOS ANGELES - Inside the small suite of offices in a building that housed a number of social-service organizations, the coffee...
San Diego law firms Schwartz Semerdjian & Haile and Gade & Cauley have joined their practices and changed their name t...
Judges and Judiciary
Vintage-Car Lover, Judge Retires After 19 Years on Norwalk Bench
By Alice Lee
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James M. Sutton Jr. has retired after 19 years in the Norwalk branch. Gov. George Deuk...
The race to have the newest and best technology invaded most industries years ago, but now even attorney-service companies hav...
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. of Canada raised $30 million in a public stock offering last month, generating legal work for s...
Marketing
Prepare for Corporate Crisis In Product Liability Lawsuits
By Contributing Writer
Column - Media Relations - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - By their nature, major-product cases can generate more media...
OCEANSIDE - What began eight years ago as a simple act of compassion for women incarcerated in San Diego's jail system has bec...
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has seen an explosion of antitrust work in the Bay Area, where it has three senior lawyers focusin...
On the afternoon of July 1, 1993, Gian Luigi Ferri strode into the offices of Pettit & Martin with a .45 caliber automatic...
The Los Angeles County Bar Association has installed Robin Meadow, a partner at Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, as its...