Outgoing Gov. Gray Davis' top aide on judicial appointments is expected to be named to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench t...

Column By Garry Abrams Las Vegas criminal defense attorney David Chesnoff wouldn't bet much that the U.S. Supreme Court is go...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County deputy public defender created a potential conflict of interest by agreeing to represent the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the early morning hours of Dec. 13, 1999, Leonard Jones allegedly shot his ex-wife, Margiree Warren, to de...

LOS ANGELES - A judge declared a mistrial Friday after a Los Angeles jury split 6-6 over whether two former Glendale high sch...

ONTARIO - An undisclosed party purchased the Dupont Industrial Building at 701 S. Dupont Ave. for $3.15 million . Marcus &...

By Liz Valsamis Once home to Shirley Temple films and a host of popular Westerns, Century City sprang up from the back lot of...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Cable TV provider Comcast Corp. is at least partly responsible for a rape allegedly committed against a men...

By Liz Valsamis Four months after the merger between Los Angeles' Riordan & McKinzie and Bingham McCutchen, managing part...

By Toni Vranjes Six months after landing a lucrative contract to implement a 2002 law aimed at reforming the state's court sy...

By Toni Vranjes A subsidiary of San Jose energy company Calpine Corp. recently tapped Stoel Rives for an $800 million debt of...

By Joel Rosenblatt Peter P. Chen, a former vice president of intellectual property at Cadence Design Systems Inc., joined McD...

By E. Joshua Rosenkranz When Sen. Orrin Hatch's Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Bill emerged from the Judiciary Commit...

By Amy Strahan Butler Bloomberg News The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is turning to outside recruiters as the agen...

By Tina Spee Entertainment law guru Kenneth Ziffren not only helped secure late-night television host Jay Leno's career, he a...

By Erik Cummins Gera Vaz, a former operations director for Clifford Chance and a former human resources manager for Brobeck, ...

By Toni Vranjes A nonprofit group is set to begin developing a $32 million affordable-housing project for low-income resident...

By Tina Spee On the cover of this month's Black Enterprise, a business and investment resource magazine for African-Americans...

MORENO VALLEY - Joe Chavez, Alexander Garcia and Bill Melton of Marcus & Millichap represented the principals in the sale...

By Robert Fortunato The story has become all too familiar over the past few years: A key leader/rainmaker within a firm leave...

By K. Preston Oade Jr. and Christopher L. Ottele In wake of last year's passage of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and Arthur Ande...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld continued to shrink this year and slid off the Los Angeles Top 20 chart, beat out by newcom...

By Toni Vranjes A team of Los Angeles attorneys represented Freedom Communications Inc. in a deal that will keep control of t...

By Tina Spee In the early morning hours of Oct. 11, two partners from Los Angeles' Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger str...

CORPORATE BellSouth and DIRECTV Inc. have signed an agreement to offer BellSouth residential customers DIRECTV digital satell...

Litigator takes advantage of Vantage's closing. Page XX By Erik Cummins Janice Brown, a veteran San Diego trial lawyer, has f...

By Karen Coleman An Oakland Superior Court judge wrapped up a long-running dispute between Viacom and 650,000 Californians, a...

By Erik Cummins Daniel Johnson and Daniel "R.D." Sullivan got plenty of big aviation cases at their three-lawyer Los Angeles ...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda A novel suit that argues a radio show qualifies as a business establishment under state anti-discriminatio...

Focus Column Employment Law By Helene J. Wasserman The decision in Liu v. Amway Corp. , 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 22320 (9th U.S. ...