LOS ANGELES - An elder law attorney, a prosecutor and an administrative law judge are vying in the March 5 primary for the sea...

LOS ANGELES - Coleman A. Swart looked grumpy. As a recent trial crawled forward in his Pasadena courtroom, Swart swiveled back...

LOS ANGELES - Larry H. Layton has run unsuccessfully for Superior Court judge four times but refuses to be dissuaded. The owne...

Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - Last Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in Zelmon v. Simmons-Harris ,...

LOS ANGELES - The roster of candidates competing for Superior Court judge in the March 5 primary election reads like a listin...

Focus Column - By Harrison J. Dossick - The lawsuits claim that by not disclosing that critics may have received something of ...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey I. Shinder - An effective remedy in a monopolization case should accomplish three objectives: termin...

Employment Column - By Chuck Fanning - While lateral associate hiring has dried up and corporate in-house hiring has slowed si...

LOS ANGELES - The architect, general contractor and several subcontractors agreed to pay nearly $14 million to fix a low-incom...

LOS ANGELES - The University of West Los Angeles' schools of law and paralegal studies and the San Fernando Valley College of ...

LOS ANGELES - In a closely watched case with international implications, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed a petition by a...

LOS ANGELES - Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel were associates of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang who located gang rivals an...

LOS ANGELES - Leaders of the state's bipartisan judicial selection committee are giving final consideration to two more candid...

LOS ANGELES - California's two Democratic senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, announced with great fanfare the forma...

Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan - When I was in grade school in the 1950s, I looked forward to February. Not only did th...

Dicta Column - By Mary F. Burns - Legal settlements involving public companies or class actions often have a public education ...

Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - As a law firm grows, it requires more people with specialized skills. The sole ...

Focus Column - By Stephan A. Mills - Even large and well-established insurers (like Reliance Insurance Co.) all too frequently...

Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - One of the most valuable provisions in a liability insurance policy is the provision obliga...

LOS ANGELES - Continuing an aggressive expansion it began last year, Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins has added two partners ...

LOS ANGELES - For years when Chuck Essegian met someone, they would hear his name and say, "Essegian? Essegian? Are you relate...

LOS ANGELES - The attorneys in the San Francisco office of Cleveland-based Arter & Hadden have a little more elbow room ar...

LOS ANGELES - A Danish hippie-turned-fugitive who allegedly embezzled millions of dollars through what some describe as an int...

LOS ANGELES - A former officer in the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart anti-gang unit was ordered Wednesday to stand tr...

WASHINGTON - Taking on one of the most contentious issues in the country, the Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed poised to narr...

Forum Column - By Robert S. Thompson - In his 1994 book "The Betrayed Profession: Lawyering at the End of the Twentieth Centur...

LOS ANGELES - A woman who sued United Airlines and the city of Los Angeles after she was removed from an airplane for entering...

Column by Garry Abrams - It's a Hollywood truism that dead celebrities usually spend a portion of eternity right here on earth...

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County deputy district attorney who unsuccessfully sued the county and managers in the district attorn...

LOS ANGELES - What makes a partner a partner? Law firm partners at Chicago-based Sidley Austin Brown & Wood may well be wo...