LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Chicago's Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood has lost bankruptcy partner Thomas E. Patte...

LOS ANGELES - Many jurists traditionally have light calendars on New Year's Eve day, but not Orange County Superior Court Comm...

SACRAMENTO - For more than 13 years, an inmate and his lawyers argued that he was innocent of the rape of a 6-year-old Long Be...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen, 'Today, access to justice for poor Californians is at best an unfilled promise and at wo...

Column by Garry Abrams - It took Bobby Hardy, a housekeeping aide at a Los Angeles hospital, almost no time to get lost in the...

Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto, We are fast approaching the deadline for law firms to restate their pension plan...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acted legally in list...

Forum Column - By Robert S. Borton, As we enter another new year, we continue to face the problems of poverty, discrimination,...

LOS ANGELES - Valley Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud A San Fernando Valley real estate attorney pleaded guilty Friday in U....

INDIO - The Commission on Judicial Performance on Friday called off a hearing originally scheduled for this week on charges ag...

PASADENA - Sometimes things get ugly in Judge Joseph F. De Vanon's courtroom. De Vanon, 51, presides over a criminal trial cou...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court has reinstated - again - a police brutality lawsuit against North Coast authorities ...

SAN FRANCISCO - There wasn't much law discussed at the annual convention of the American Historical Association, held in San F...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran attorneys call him the dean of public interest law. Young lawyers aspire to reason, write and argue like...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles real estate attorney Allan Albala, who was known as much for his devotion to family as for h...

SANTA ANA - The federal child-pornography case against Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline was transferred Friday ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Something went very wrong with Israel Polidori's Cinco de Mayo celebration two years ago. The day after the...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge on Friday granted a request by city officials to hold a nonjury trial Jan. 28 that could de...

Greater Bay Bancorp announced Dec. 19 that it will acquire ABD Insurance and Financial Services for $200 million. Palo Alto's ...

Eight months after leaving Townsend and Townsend and Crew for Weil Gotshal & Manages , litigation partner Theodore Herhold...

Smart & Final Inc. closed an $87 million financing and a $175 million revolving line of credit on Nov. 30. The lenders for...

As George Bernard Shaw once observed, "America and Britain are two nations divided by a common language." This is no better e...

While Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati can boast the highest profits per partner in the state (see chart, pg. ...

Harry Miller , the co-author of California's leading real estate treatise "Miller & Starr, California Real Estate," died J...

Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass., acquired COR Therapeutics Inc. in a deal announced Dec. 6. The sto...

The Los Angeles office of Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard has beefed up its medical malpractice department with three ne...

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy , a 800-attorney New York-based firm best known for its Wall Street corporate and finance ex...

Sunnyvale's SanDisk Corp. closed a $125 million debt offering on Dec. 24. The underwriter was Morgan Stanley. SanDisk produces...

Large New York firm Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner has taken scores of partners and associates from Baer Marks &...

Donald Oppenheim is leaving legal consulting firm Altman Weil Inc. to join a public agency law firm in San Leandro. Oppenheim,...