Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Summer is right around the corner. For many, the arrival of summer brings days at the...

Tutor-Saliba Heads Down Wrong Track Construction joint venture Tutor-Saliba-Perini , which was hired by the Los Angeles County...

LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles should prosecute owners, managers and tenants of high-rises who don't conduct fire drill...

LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo is in merger talks with Atlanta-based Long, Aldridge & Norman. Lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Associate Justice Stuart R. Pollak took what was - for him - a little light reading on a recent vacation jaunt...

Forum Column - By Gilbert Geis and Joseph F. C. DiMento - To many Americans, the grand jury criminal indictment of Arthur Ande...

Forum Column - By Karl Manheim - Imagine the following scenario: Salvador Dolly has a rare and valuable genetic trait. Somethi...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court cleared the way for the Los Angeles Times and other media to publish photographs of a San Ber...

LOS ANGELES - Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney is establishing a Bay Area presence with the acquisition of Flehr Hohbach...

SAN JOSE - A federal jury Thursday convicted Michael Rostoker, a patent lawyer and former business executive, of illegally tra...

LOS ANGELES -If the public is to have confidence in the legal system, judges need to be free from political pressure, says Los...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nike's aggressive public defense of its treatment of Asian workers is not protected free speech, but is regula...

LOS ANGELES - As part of an expanding investigation by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office into the current poli...

Focus Column - By Chris Scheuring - The temporary development moratorium is a widely used tool in land use planning that prese...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors have asked a judge to remove the attorney representing Robert Blake's bodyguard-co-defendant, claimi...

LOS ANGELES - Richard M. Hall was just coming into his own in the 1930s when his grandmother gave him a choice: Take an offer ...

LOS ANGELES -A federal jury Thursday found three gang members guilty of multiple charges of murder, drug sales and money laund...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fresno Superior Court Judge Gene M. Gomes, a 21-year trial court veteran, was nominated Thursday by Gov. Gray ...

Dicta Column - By Ronald S. Granberg - An advocate of John Stuart Mill's utilitarianism philosophy contends that the moral val...

Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick - Law firms that are new to media communications frequently make the same mistakes. They t...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. to pay nearly $15 million in fines for ...

Dicta Column - By Leigh Datzker - The bane of government is the legal processing fee. Those of us who regularly pay admission ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tucked into a corner of City Hall, the books look like any other law tomes, except for the titles on their var...

LOS ANGELES - Losing just two partners, the California offices of Holland & Knight escaped Tuesday's layoffs at the Tampa-...

SAN FRANCISCO - A bride who went ahead with the marriage even after her fiancee lost a testicle can't sue for loss of consorti...

SAN FRANCISCO - An unlikely alliance of the trucking industry, Teamsters, environmentalists and a Ralph Nader-founded activist...

LOS ANGELES - Bankruptcy attorney Cheryle M. White, known by colleagues and clients for her unique touch in handling sensitive...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker expanded into China on Wednesday by acquiring Koo and Partner...

Column by Garry Abrams - If you don't believe in reincarnation, check out the latest lawsuit against Los Angeles-based rap mog...

LOS ANGELES - "Feel like a winner," Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden said Wednesday, a day after the City Ethics Commis...