LOS ANGELES - The University of California regents and a New York-based bank owned by the garment workers' union filed a secur...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing North Coast activists who were pepper-sprayed during antilogging demonstrations in 1997 ...

Eight months of negotiations resulted in a $67.7 million settlement for Rite Aid Corp. workers who alleged that their Pennsylv...

Pan Pacific Retail Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust, has sold the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza for $68 million....

Baltimore company I4 Commerce Inc. wants to shake up the traditional way of paying for items on the Internet. And it has won t...

Following the closure of the Los Angeles office of New York-based Kelley, Drye & Warren, corporate partner Ronald Husdon h...

"Give me a K!" cheerleaders from Los Angeles' James A. Foshay Learning Center joyfully commanded their audience at the Winston...

The U.S. District Court seeks public comments regarding the reappointments of Magistrate Judges Charles F. Eick, Arthur Nakaza...

Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has added two new partners - land-use attorney Timi Anyon Hallem and project financ...

Glen Peterson, executive director of Los Angeles' JobStarts Inc., doesn't have a legal background, and his organization doesn'...

Miami-based Feldman, Gale & Weber became a two-office firm April 1 when it opened an outpost in downtown Los Angeles. The ...

Brokers can breathe easier after a San Francisco appellate court made it more difficult in fraud suits to hold brokers liable ...

Litigation Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Cynthia F. Pasternak - Civil lawsuits focus on monetary damages. Certa...

Edward Sousa and Gerald Schwartzbach waited at the front gates of San Quentin State Prison March 21. They watched as their cli...

Chicago's Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman hired John Arai "Mitch" Mitchell as a litigation partner. Mitchell, who joined on March...

It's not as if they have nothing else to do. This issue of EXTRA features four of the special lawyers who likely will travel t...

McDonald's is facing a lawsuit in Los Angeles that questions the safety of the restaurant's playgrounds throughout the country...

To take on Hollywood with its deep pockets, in-house counsel and legions of outside law firms, you need lawyers with a lot of ...

Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has lost partner Bruce McNamara to the Menlo Park office of Seattle's Perkins...

Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe told Warrington Parker III he could do appeals full time if he joined the firm's new appea...

Students throughout San Diego County have heard the story of Andy Adams and Beth Baker, two kids on trial for scheming to sell...

Michael Judge, Los Angeles public defender, is determined to make his office a pleasant one to work in for all his employees. ...

In a controversial deal that has piqued the interest of top Washington lawmakers, DHL Worldwide Express has agreed to buy the ...

In Closing Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Law firms that check and provide employee references need to know about changes in the l...

Longtime Oakland city attorney Ines Vargas Fraenkel has taken a private-practice gig with the public sector employment law fir...

Forum Column - By Johanna Y. Ong and Robert J. Becher - Recently, the 1st District of the California Court of Appeal in Yan...