In Closing Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - If your law firm is like others, you have probably purchased separate soft...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has invalidated a patent held by an Australian nature photographer for a Panavision-produced ca...

Pillsbury Winthrop's hiring spree continues apace with recent additions to its Silicon Valley and Houston offices. On March 31...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting punitive damages is causing a debate among California lawyers. Defense attorneys claim ...

Thanks to a Supreme Court decision that came down Tuesday, two Korean banks in a separate case could find themselves back in a...

U.S. travel agents hope to right their nose-diving businesses by suing 21 major airlines for cutting off their commissions. ...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Gregg A. Farley and Paul C. White II - The state Supreme Court recently handed down a decision th...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Bad aim never has been a defense to murder. Under the doctrine of transf...

Forum Column - By Michael S. Overing and Edward C. Wilde Sr. - Just days after the war in Iraq began, Americans learned that f...

LOS ANGELES - Local health care advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Cent...

LOS ANGELES - Elisabeth Eberhard Zeigler, one of the first female presiding judges of the Los Angeles Municipal Court, died on...

LOS ANGELES - Information technology manager Josh Furey led a group of children into the server room of the Los Angeles office...

LOS ANGELES - Jesse Dukeminier, UCLA School of Law professor emeritus and property law expert, died in his Los Angeles home Ap...

SAN JOSE - With layoffs looming at the Santa Clara County district attorney's office for the first time in years, the Governme...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge will wait for the State Bar to determine Trevor Law Group's fate before approving settle...

RIVERSIDE - A Los Angeles County defense attorney has pleaded guilty to passing a bag of marijuana to her client in a Riversid...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Los Angeles has handed the entertainment industry its first major courtroom defeat in the b...

SAN FRANCISCO - Captains of industry who trade their pin stripes for prison stripes in stock fraud cases are finding that the...

In the post-Enron days, the blame game plays an increasing role in sorting out who's culpable for a company's failure. The fin...

LOS ANGELES - Executives are calculating the costs of corporate reform, and they're not pleased with the results. A nationwide...

LOMPOC - The Everett Trust purchased a 31,608-square-foot retail building in the Mission Plaza Shopping Center at 1408 N. H S...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time in its 150-year history, New York's Coudert Brothers has tapped a Los Angeles-based partner t...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich - Kentucky Association of Health Plans Inc. v. Miller , 123 S.C...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - The burning cross may be the most reviled symbol in the United States - perhaps tied wit...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - After Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychare Services Inc., 24 Cal.4th 83 ...

LOS ANGELES - The Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect released annual statistical findings Thursday showing that i...

SAN BERNARDINO - District Attorney Michael A. Ramos formed a public integrity unit this week on the heels of recent government...

SAN DIEGO - Immigration lawyers reacted with alarm Thursday as word spread of Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to sta...

LOS ANGELES - Reversing an earlier decision, a Los Angeles Juvenile Court judge on Thursday threw open court documents and fil...

RIVERSIDE - The county's Volunteers in Parole program will honor Riverside attorneys John Vineyard and David M. Philips at an ...