WASHINGTON - Workers sickened by exposure to asbestos who want to seek damages because they also fear that they will develop l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Newton Lam wants a bigger courtroom. But the San Francisco Superior Court judge's desire for additional space ...
LOS ANGELES - After deliberating less than a day and a half, a Pomona jury on Tuesday acquitted a Texas businessman of murderi...
One day after the U.S. Supreme Court slapped down the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for failing to defer to state court de...
LOS ANGELES - Family and colleagues of Irv Rubin said Tuesday that they want the government to produce a videotape of the Jewi...
Large Firms
Signaling the End of an Era, Cooley Leaves Sand Hill Road
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - In the latest in a series of retrenchments, Cooley Godward will close its office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Pa...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court ruling barring aerial pesticide spraying on Pacific Northwest forests until water po...
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court appeared troubled Tuesday that a Los Angeles appellate court second-guessed a trial ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated it likely will rule that California's three-strikes law does not impose un...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Jessica A. Mayer - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act significantly expands pro...
Forum Column - By David C. Smith - California State Water Resources Control Board officials have an opportunity this fall to r...
Reporter's Notebook By Pete Blumberg SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego law professor Bob Fellmeth is no fan of famed San Diego litiga...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward has sparked internal controversy by laying off secretaries and paralegals in Palo Alto without...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judges Paul H. Alvarado and Robert L. Dondero have nominated themselves to be assistant presiding judge of Sa...
RIVERSIDE - Ten years ago, Riverside County sheriff's deputies found Terese Stewart, 29, dead in her mother's home, her body s...
LOS ANGELES - Jury deliberations are slated to begin today in the shoplifting trial of actress Winona Ryder, who is accused of...
A bid to have the state Supreme Court reinstate an $88.5 million class-action fee award that was rejected as grossly excessiv...
LOS ANGELES - Irv Rubin, the fiery president of the Los Angeles-based Jewish Defense League, has been hospitalized in grave co...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider what steps states can take to regulate telemarketers who seek dona...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward has sparked internal controversy by laying off secretaries and paralegals in Palo Alto without...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Commission on Judicial Performance, the state's judicial watchdog agency, Monday released a 10-year summa...
ATTORNEY ASSAILS POT RAID - The operators of Santa Cruz's medical marijuana cooperative were not engaged in interstate commer...
Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - Law firms should do everything in their power to ensure that the information provided in th...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - More than two years have passed since the United States Supreme Court ruled that public off...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court taught a lesson Monday to lawyers who fail to get fee-sharing agreements in writ...
Litigation
Citizens' Groups Better Bring Six-Figure Checks to Hollywood Lawsuits
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Hollywood movie studios recently won an important round in this country's everlasting culture war o...
SAN JOSE - The operators of Santa Cruz's medical marijuana cooperative were not engaged in interstate commerce and therefore ...
LOS ANGELES - While prisons have made strides in reducing suicide risk, they need to do more, experts say. ...
Firm Watch
Buchalter Nemer Chief Executive Has Big Shoes to Fill in New Role
By Liz Valsamis
Rick Cohen is settling into his new role as the next president and chief executive officer of Los Angeles' Buchalter, Nemer, F...
Sunnyvale's Oculex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has raised a hefty $50 million in its latest round of venture funding, which will supp...