Column by Garry Abrams - After what seems like years - or at least months - in the doldrums, Los Angeles' criminal justice sys...

SANTA ANA - Gov. Gray Davis appointed three lawyers Monday to the Orange County Superior Court bench, including a co-founder o...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for David Zerner, a retired lawyer, businessman and accountant. Zerner, who was a cert...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake, the actor who portrayed a vicious killer hung from the gallows in a classic crime film, learned Mo...

SAN FRANCISCO - An international campaign to indict Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for genocide over a 1982 massacre at t...

LOS ANGELES - Responding to the possibility that he could face the death penalty for murdering his wife, actor Robert Blake to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Question: What kind of a lawsuit could include as defendants a maker of glass jars, a fashionable clothier, an...

Focus Column - By María E. Núñez and Michelle B. Graham - Following Sept. 11, the U.S. government stepped up its efforts to de...

Forum Column - By Margaret C. Crosby - Constitutional law, science and medicine have dramatically changed since Ronald Reagan ...

LOS ANGELES - A senate bill that allows unions for county public safety employees to demand binding arbitration of economic is...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday indicated that it will narrowly approve the Internal Revenue Service's practice of es...

Forum Column - By Michael Fields - Medical malpractice insurance rates have shot through the roof. Insurers are jacking up the...

LOS ANGELES - In the latest twist of his reappointment drama, Police Chief Bernard Parks resigned Monday and announced that he...

Dicta Column - By Carlos Bea - It is amusing to hear counsel use fuzzy words to steer a witness over the shoals of what the wi...

Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - With the economy in a recession, obtaining payments from your clients can be di...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday appeared poised to rule that judges - rather than juries - may decide facts that lead...

Alltrista Corp. has agreed to acquire Tilia International Inc. for $160 million. The deal was announced March 28. Rye, N.Y.-ba...

After six years at Jackson Lewis Schnitzler & Krupman , labor and employment lawyer Mark Theodore ditched his downtown dig...

Bankruptcy partner Richard "Dick" Rogan is the new managing partner at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro 's San Francisco of...

Whitney & Co. and Golden Gate Capital Inc. have agreed to acquire Herbalife International Inc. The cash deal is worth appr...

Verance Corp. closed three deals to bring in $13 million for the San Diego company. Five million dollars came from a Series C ...

Los Angeles attorney Mark Rosenthal represents professional baseball teams, such as the Anaheim Angels, in salary arbitrations...

Most American lawyers are too busy billing hours and going about the daily business of practicing law to witness the enormous ...

POINT Biomedical Corp. has brought in $23.3 million in private financing. The deal was announced April 4. The lead investor wa...

InVision Technologies Inc. raised $109.5 million in its public offering. The deal was announced March 27. Merrill Lynch & ...

Tenet Healthcare Corp. completed a senior subordinated note offering for more than $838 million. The deal was announced April ...

In the world of electronic legal research, two companies reign supreme: Miamisburg, Ohio-based LexisNexis Group and West Group...

Los Angeles-based corporate rainmaker Kenneth Doran has become the new managing partner of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher , the fi...

Apple Computer Inc. has acquired Zayante Inc. in a cash deal worth $13 million. The deal closed April 3. Cupertino-based Apple...

Ocular Sciences Inc. purchased certain assets, including inventory, from Seiko Contact Lens. The deal, completed April 3, is w...