Retired appeals court Justice William A. Masterson has joined JAMS, the nation's largest private, alternative-dispute-resoluti...

San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop is celebrating the opening of two new offices, bolstering its presence on the West and ...

Neil O'Hanlon, a partner at the Los Angeles law firm of Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld, took on a new leading role ...

Viet Dinh is a Vietnamese refugee. Brian W. Jones is African-American. Eugene Volokh is a Russian Jew. These three represent t...

Greenberg Traurig has lured employment attorney Katessa C. Davis to its Los Angeles office, where she joined the firm as of-co...

In other Sheppard Mullin news, the firm will expand its presence in California next month. It will acquire Santa Barbara-based...

San Diego's Nereus Pharmaceuticals Inc. has raised $23.6 million in a second round of venture financing. Pacific Venture Group...

When he's not cranking out new real estate deals, attorney Rand April will be helping other Los Angeles business people find w...

Bedford, Mass.' RSA Security Inc. has agreed to buy San Francisco's Securant Technologies Inc. The cash deal is worth $136.5 m...

Anaheim's Odetics Inc. and its subsidiary, Iteris Inc., have received $11 million in financing, primarily from investors Daiml...

SAN FRANCISCO - At the annual convention of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, held last month in Montreal, San Fran...

LOS ANGELES - Two important city opinions confirm the unassailable power of the City Council president to designate committee ...

LOS ANGELES - Calling the murder of a former deputy public defender "incomprehensible, vicious and uncalled for," a Los Angele...

LOS ANGELES - Peter B. Covette, a supervisor with the Los Angeles city attorney's office whose multifaceted talents earned him...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Placer County judge who was censured last year for grabbing his bailiff's breasts now has been relieved of h...

SACRAMENTO - Individual trial lawyers are among the top contributors this year to the political coffers of Gov. Gray Davis and...

SAN JOSE - In a ruling that could have a significant effect at metropolitan police departments nationwide, a panel of the 9th ...

LOS ANGELES - It should have been a happy event when an employee at an East Coast company learned she was pregnant. There was ...

PALO ALTO - It was, according to attorneys who know him well, a classic Tom Nolan moment: passionate, confrontational and, per...

SANTA BARBARA - Dr. William Austin thought his 17-acre Montecito estate, complete with sandstone mansion, oak grove and formal...

SAN FRANCISCO - Proclaiming Unabomer Theodore Kaczynski sane enough to be tried, but too crazy to represent himself, turns the...

The regulation applies where the arrangement has an effect on member states, irrespective of the location of the parties to th...

The clone age has arrived. Last week at a conference held by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, Italian researcher ...

SANTA CLARA - Santa Clara University School of Law has launched a High Tech Law Institute, which includes a new master's degre...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court called the case "a trial attorney's worst nightmare," but still ruled for the defense....

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Brian Paul McGovern, a judge with the Worker's Compensation Appeals Board in Pomon...

LOS ANGELES - American Civil Liberties Union Legal Director Mark Rosenbaum, who Tuesday called for the removal of the superint...

LOS ANGELES - Silvia Saucedo has been a Los Angeles police commissioner for less than 24 hours, and she's already conducting h...

LOS ANGELES - In the immediate hours after a Southwest Airline jet overshot a runway at Burbank airport and crashed into a car...

SAN FRANCISCO - A $70 million lawsuit that calls into question how lawyers handle the business they take with them when they s...