RIVERSIDE - An appellate panel has affirmed the prison sentence of the former owner of a conservatorship company who helped st...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge's decision to halt development of three dozen offshore oil and gas leases will, for the first ...

SAN DIEGO - A group of lawyers whose case prompted the city to shut off its 19 traffic-intersection cameras last month continu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thirteen months after its firm was acquired as the emerging-companies practice of Thelen Reid & Priest, th...

LOS ANGELES - Gregory Vega, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, will join San Diego's Seltzer Caplan...

SAN FRANCISCO - A mediator cannot divulge to a judge anything that goes on in negotiations, even when participants try to dera...

From staff reports Nicolas De Lancie has joined Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP in an of counsel capacity to the ba...

SACRAMENTO - Public interest lawyers, including district attorneys and public defenders, could get state help to repay their l...

LOS ANGELES - Allen Kimball always looked for power lines before perusing a tree for its fruits. And the veteran avocado picke...

LOS ANGELES - Barry Levin's last act was one of courage, sparing his family the pain of watching him deteriorate as had his fa...

LOS ANGELES - In many things, two out of three isn't bad. But when it comes to burying someone, it's a lousy percentage. That ...

The expert's report is not binding on the court but is usually powerful evidence bearing on the best interest of the children.

Lawyers at Los Angeles' Riordan & McKinzie spared no expense in a recent celebration welcoming back name partner Richard R...

Monaco Coach Corp. has agreed to buy SMC Corp. The cash- and assumption-of-debt deal between the Oregon motor-coach manufactur...

On July 1, Washington, D.C.-based Shaw Pittman increased the number of attorneys in its Century City outpost by two-thirds by ...

Larry Braun is settling back into his old corporate-chair spot at Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton after a t...

David Laufer, an intellectual-property and product-distribution law specialist, hopped off the teetering Los Angeles office of...

The California Bankruptcy Forum has named David Gould, a corporate partner in the Los Angeles office of McDermott Will & E...

The California chapter of the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation has appointed George Means, a real estate partner at Sidle...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley has presented nearly $17,000 in environmental scholarships to 18 students from fi...

Gov. Gray Davis has nominated George Caplan, co-managing partner of Kaye Scholer Fierman Hayes & Handler's Los Angeles off...

The dynamics of Hollywood collective bargaining does not fit easily into the patterns that we learned in labor-law courses i...

Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has added two more feathers to the cap of its California intellectual-property practice. ...

Former shipping executive David Morrison will juggle the books for a large law firm, San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White &...

Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. and Kyushu Electric Power Co. Inc. have closed a $249 million financing for the 495-megawatt Tuxpan I...

A legal education is a time-proven hedge against economic downturns - at least that is the thinking among today's law school a...

The Rehnquist Court has cut back on individual rights by carving out exceptions to Warren Court decisions. ...

The California State Bar has awarded C. Hartzog Clamon, an insurance defense associate at Hayes Simpson Greene in San Diego, i...

The Irvine Ranch and Orange County water districts have announced a 40-year deal with the U.S. Department of the Navy to clean...