To visit the three kings of insurance bad-faith law, you need to get in your car and jump on the freeway heading east out of L...

San Jose's Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has picked up former Lyon & Lyon partner Arnold Sklar. Sklar joined the fir...

Zi Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, announced recently that it will fight a $9 million jury verdict awarded against it for patent in...

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory hired Peter Townshend as of-counsel from Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's Menlo P...

The Beverly Hills Bar Association will host an alternative dispute resolution dinner Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. at McCormick & Schm...

Job seekers are increasingly getting online help in their hunt for work. Search engines such as Monster.com, hotjobs.com and c...

Caitlin Greenwell is turning 3 today. The girl is permanently brain-damaged from a birth injury, but she may have a happier ce...

Yvonne Wilson says she wasn't only up against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but also her own age. The 97-year-old...

Choosing challenge over comfort, renowned litigator Kenneth Chiate has left the Los Angeles office of San Francisco's Pillsbur...

The Association of Business Trial Lawyers announced its new officers and board of governors earlier this month. All members wi...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis last week continued a recent flurry of judicial appointments, naming six new judges in Los Angel...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Laura A. Majerus - When counseling clients on matters relating to open-source licens...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $425,000 to a Locke High School art teacher who said she was retaliated against f...

Many children expect to borrow money from a parent with no strings attached. But not Pasadena neutral Linda M. Lasley, who mad...

SAN DIEGO - A university detective testified Friday that Kristin M. Rossum looked "dramatically different" from her photograph...

MARTINEZ - The race for district attorney in Contra Costa County has revealed a hidden bug in the local campaign finance law. ...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The U.S. Congress has voted overwhelmingly to authorize President Bush to use military fo...

In another high-profile bankruptcy handled by Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones, financially beleaguered software com...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing a continuing pattern of caustic remarks and arbitrary rulings, the Contra Costa County district attorne...

SAN FRANCISCO - After three years of uncertainty, Jerry Litmon has finally learned that he is indeed a single man. His divorce...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Montana man who downloaded 1,300 pornographic images of young girls from the Internet is entitled to a 75 pe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal watchdog agency wants to hold up millions of dollars in fees due to lawyers and consultants in the P...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two Peninsula construction companies used a sham joint venture to circumvent city regulations giving minority-...

INDIO - Commissioner Ronald G. Lorden doesn't like to embarrass attorneys. To avoid making an out-of-town lawyer look scatterb...

INDIO - The Commission on Judicial Performance called off a hearing in its sexual misconduct case against Riverside County Sup...

OAKLAND - Even though her well-financed opponent bowed out of the race in April, Alameda County Superior Court judicial candid...

LOS ANGELES - Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger's board of directors has elected Rick Cohen to the post of president and ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Howard N. Madris - On Oct. 4, a Los Angeles jury issued a $28 billion punitive damages verdict ...

SAN JOSE - When Eugene Pelka, a veteran manager at Lockheed Martin, stepped to the microphone 21/2 years ago to roast a longti...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted 40 Aryan Brotherhood members and associates on federal racketeering charges, a...