It was business unusual among last year's Top 10 defense cases. While corporate contract matters dominated the list, only one ...

With the plunk of an oil drill on the floor of the ocean, a controversy erupted on the land up above. It started with Lloyd's ...

In a nutshell, a final summation of the Top 10 defense cases of 2000. ...

In Silicon Valley, big tech breakthroughs can spell big damage demands in litigation. And that's how defense counsel sees a re...

Litigation over issues related to inadequate child support payments is widespread in California. The surprise is that technolo...

It started with a dripping waterspout that turned into a puddle big enough to drown a toy retailer's chance of hitting the big...

LOS ANGELES - Geoffrey Gaidos, an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, died Sund...

On a raw night in San Francisco, the screams of three firefighters trapped in a burning building could not be heard. Melanie S...

When National Semiconductor gobbled up Cyrix Corp., it gave shareholders $240 million worth of heartburn. But they got no reli...

SANTA ANA - The sole holdout in a vote to settle a book-banning lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against ...

Aaron Epstein owns a piece of real estate in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. When the city in 1998 expanded the Hollywood E...

Vantive Corp. looked like a sure bet. The customer-service software developer went public in August 1995 at $6 a share. Rapid ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Frederick D. Smith, the first black attorney to be hired as a San Francisco public defender and to serve as th...

RIVERSIDE - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Riverside County Public Defender Margaret Spencer, who alleged she...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chanler, a controversial plaintiffs lawyer who helped pioneer the aggressive pursuit of Proposition 6...

LOS ANGELES - After 13 months, Zhang Hongbao, founder of Zhong Gong, a highly popular meditative discipline that China has bra...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court decision handed down this week could mean an end to a prosecutorial tactic of charging d...

LOS ANGELES - The state's lotto machines are more reliable than many of its voting machines, according to a lawsuit challengin...

SACRAMENTO - In a stinging defeat for five law firms, a Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Tuesday that the firms are not ...

LOS ANGELES - A Chicago architect won a contest to design a $300-million federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, which is ...

9th Circuit holds that hospitals' duties under "patient dumping" laws are triggered when the ambulance contacts a hospital.

WASHINGTON - California may withhold payment to subcontractors on state projects who fail to pay employees the state's prevail...

April is upon us once more, bringing all the portents of spring. For some, New Year's is the appropriate time for reflection, ...

As we go farther beyond our Judeo-Christian roots to a secular and secularized view of morality, we seem to be losing our grip...

LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.'s McKenna & Cuneo has added seven attorneys to its Los Angeles office and six attorneys to ...

There are moments in our lives that are defining moments. There are actions that we take in response that will significantly d...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Justice has taken steps to ensure that the city of Los Angeles will benefit from a $134 m...

SAN FRANCISCO - By fighting ethics charges with a free-speech lawsuit, the embattled former Judge Patricia Gray is gambling th...

LANCASTER - To hear their attorneys tell it, three grandmothers who sold iodine crystals out of a High Desert feed store have ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury on Monday indicted the partner heading the patent department for Oakland's Crosby Heafey ...