YUCAIPA - By the time 13-year-old Dylan Carr committed suicide with his grandfather's rifle, four months had passed since he r...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday held unconstitutional California's landmark law allowing individ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to clarify which legal avenues mentally ill death row inmates can...

Employment and labor law attorney Colleen Regan is leaving Perkins Coie to join Santa Monica litigation boutique Van Etten, S...

By Erik Cummins In November, a Cooley Godward memo stated obliquely that its two remaining Kirkland, Wash., partners, Christo...

The Association of Southern California Defense Counsel named its officers for the year 2003. Paul Fine is president-elect. He...

By Toni Vranjes San Marino's East West Bancorp Inc. is continuing its buying spree, agreeing to purchase Pacific Business Ban...

By Erik Cummins Midway through his career as a construction litigator, Jeffrey Sykes took some time off and reassessed his li...

Liz Valsamis Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Places to Work is a list that sports a variety of corporations, but few law firms. T...

By Liz Valsamis Bonne, Bridges, Mueller, O'Keefe & Nichols has opened its much-needed Las Vegas office. Los Angeles litig...

By Joan Osterwalder Juries didn't buy into corporate America in 2002. Business fraud cases made up the bulk of the top 10 jury...

By Liz Valsamis After 18 months of commuting from his San Diego county home to Fish & Neave's Palo Alto office, partner N...

By Stefanie Knapp For the first time in its three-year history, the Employment Law Alliance surveyed its member attorneys to ...

By Liz Valsamis After three years of helping rebuild the economies of countries that had belonged to the former Soviet Union,...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Retired U.S. District Court Judge John G. Davies will rejoin JAMS as a neutral Feb. 3. After initially sig...

By Joan Osterwalder A former professional football player and felon is suing San Bernardino County over an allegedly bad fall...

By Linda Rapattoni and Hudson Sangree Gov. Gray Davis signed 1,168 bills in 2002, dozens more than in any previous year of hi...

By Erik Cummins Edsell "Chip" Eady was a big believer in Foley & Lardner's chances in California during the four years he...

By Joan Osterwalder It was an uphill battle. A hillside project of 572 luxury homes in the Verdugo Mountains caused a politic...

Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has lured Peter K. Shack away from the office of the attorney general. Shack, form...

The Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles has announced its 2002 award winners, who will be honored at the organizati...

By Toni Vranjes Laser manufacturer PhotoMedex Inc. of Radnor, Pa., has purchased Surgical Laser Technologies Inc., broadening...

Martinez civil Judge James Trembath will retire from the Contra Costa County Superior Court in March. Trembath, 63, says he h...

By Keith Rohman and Cathleen Watkins Deadlines are stacking up, the phones are ringing incessantly, and your calendar is out ...

By Liz Valsamis Patricia Kinaga, an employment litigator and award-winning film writer, director and producer, has joined the...

By Toni Vranjes The new year brought a new owner for the 91 Express Lanes. Ownership of the toll road officially shifted to t...

Los Angeles' Absolute Court Reporting Inc. has been bought by Paulson Reporting and Litigation Service Inc. Absolute will con...

By Erik Cummins Recruiting former Bank of America associate general counsel Maureen Young was like getting the first pick in ...

Keesal, Young & Logan has added a baker's dozen, including partner Kimberly Wong, to the firm's Long Beach and San Franci...

By Toni Vranjes Natural gas provider ENRG of Seal Beach has acquired a Denver-based company to expand into new markets. ENRG ...