Orange County Superior Court Judges Christopher Strople and David H. Brickner are slated for retirement in February. The two ...

Are bad times a good time to invest? Chicago's Winston & Strawn seems to think so. The 850-lawyer business and litigation ...

Andrea Wirum has done it before, and she'll do it again. Wirum, a securities, finance and insolvency partner with Pillsbury Wi...

What is believed to be the only legal advocacy group in California with its own television show broadcasts its message of tort...

Donna Melby didn't just crack the glass ceiling with her Jan 18 induction as the vice president of the American Board of Trial...

Contrary to published reports, Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Joseph L. Lodge did not preside last month over the wedding ...

After four years serving as Munger Tolles & Olson's co-managing partner, Ruth Fisher stepped down from the position Dec. 3...

News came in a flurry this month for Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson. First, the public agency law boutique moved it...

Four months after seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, San Diego software company Peregrine Systems Inc. has filed a plan...

In the wee hours of Jan. 1, a team of Morrison & Foerster attorneys had more to celebrate than just the start of another y...

The American Bar Association has selected Daniel Bookin and Douglas Young to head the white-collar crime sub-committee of the...

The Impact Fund, a Berkeley-based foundation that awards grants to those litigating public-interest cases, marked its 10th ann...

"L.A. Angel," a neon-and-metal sculpture in downtown Los Angeles, became the centerpiece of a December dispute that was far fr...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge J. Michael Byrne will retire March 8 after 21 years on the bench, both as a Municipal Court ...

Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has recruited Ellen Marshall, a 15-year veteran of Morrison & Foerster's Irvine...

H. Don Christian, a sole practitioner from Covina, was elected a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner by the court's judge...

By Tara Fass Using a little intuition and knowing the psychology behind deal making, you can improve your negotiation skills ...

Irvine's Alvarado, Smith & Sanchez will be relying on the help of state Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, R-Orange, to counsel the...

By Jeffrey Anderson The Scene turned out a week ago Saturday for Bet Tzedek Legal Services' annual fundraiser. The place: Cen...

Software company CollabNet Inc. of Brisbane raised $13 million in its third round of private financing, which will help it exp...

The landslide created little mounds of dirt before it suddenly dropped, creating a scarp and 35-foot-deep fissures. The roiled...

By Daniel R. Miller and Ted Brooks In the motion picture "Minority Report," a thriller set in 2054, Tom Cruise plays a police...

The Astoria Quality Senior Living Center dedicated its new wing to Judge David Korman on Jan. 23. The center chose Korman bec...

Sean Kneafsey was able to shut down one fraudulent immigration consultant, but, he says, many more remain, particularly in Los...

LOS ANGELES - A debate between federal appellate Judges Alex Kozinski and Stephen Reinhardt on Thursday evening turned out to ...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Raymond Williams and Michael Garabed - What does tort litigation have to do with homeland securit...

LOS ANGELES - After serving two years at Corcoran state prison for robbery and assault, Jason Kindle has walked out a free ma...

SAN FRANCISCO - The idea that Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison would dissolve was unthinkable just weeks ago, according to sur...

SAN FRANCISCO - Police can't order a convicted street gang member to disclose "areas frequented" in his required registration...

WASHINGTON - It's amazing how the justices manage to do it. Every term the Supreme Court gets between 7,000 and 8,000 petitio...