LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney has filed a misdemeanor complaint against attorney Shawn Snider Chapman, who repre...

SAN DIEGO - Never mind the dog. Richard R. Espinosa claims that it was his own civil rights that were violated Nov. 16 when th...

RIVERSIDE - The California Highway Patrol is not immune from liability in a fatal crash that occurred on a remote desert road ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County-based engineering firm will pay the U.S. government $8.2 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsu...

SANTA ANA - A candidate for the Yorba Linda City Council is scheduled to be arraigned today on charges of lying about his plac...

Secrecy agreements are standard for large corporations in product liability lawsuits. The agreements are reached by plaintiffs...

LOS ANGELES - California law bars attorneys from seeking payment for representing themselves in disputes with clients, but co-...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the latest seesaw court battle over energy, a federal appeals court has blocked an injunction issued just t...

LOS ANGELES - Flash back to 1987. The only thing the kid had going for him was that he was smart and liked to read. Other than...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran public defender Elliot Daum recalls the precise moment when the idea of becoming a judge crystallized ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing the exodus of state jurists, Administrative Presiding Justice Gary E. Strankman of the 1st District...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, the California Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the duty of trial judges to replace jurors...

SAN FRANCISCO - Now that corporate work is slowing and the public offerings work has all but dried up, lawyers who can handle ...

LOS ANGELES - A new policy about to be adopted by leaders of the Juvenile Court was jeopardized Monday when the Los Angeles Co...

LOS ANGELES - In recent months, dark, death-dealing moments of the American past have come back to haunt this country, either ...

It was quite a feat. In just 10 days, Steve Grossman helped his client, The TCW Group, sell 70 percent of its ownership to an ...

With a father known as "The Godfather" of entertainment law, it's little wonder why Warren Dern decided to join the family bus...

Later this month, Issac Vaughn will fill some expensive shoes when he pinch hits for San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown as a spe...

The question is not, What has Theodora Lee accomplished in her young legal career? The question is, What hasn't she accomplish...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in three years, the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association has named San Francisco plaint...

The biggest San Diego-only firm just got a little bigger, thanks to three of the five lawyers who practiced as the local Ramse...

Boston's Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agreed to acquire San Diego's Aurora Biosciences Corp. for $592 million in stock. Ver...

If you thought all the successful corporate attorneys are planted in Silicon Valley, try telling that to Charles Ruck. At age ...

For the hundreds of fraud investigators in the Los Angeles law enforcement community who chase the crooks who set up phone boi...

He Hate Me? He Hate You! It was supposed to be a feel-good story. The idea was to interview longtime Los Angeles lawyer-turned...

Most lawyers are not sharks, Latham & Watkins' Tim Crudo says. The San Francisco litigation partner is proof that many law...

Manufacturers always are concerned about the risk of product liability lawsuits and often go to great lengths to be proactive ...

LMI Aerospace Inc. has bought the operating assets - machinery, equipment and inventory - of Sun Valley companies Tempco Engin...

Irvine-based insurance defense boutique Wesierski & Zurek donated computer equipment to Fountain Valley's Coastline Commun...

Morrison & Foerster partner Cedric Chao has been elected chairman and president of the Northern California Chapter of the ...