Maxtor Corp. will acquire Quantum Corp.'s Hard Disk Drive Group in a transaction valued at $2.3 billion. Milpitas-based Maxtor...

FAIRFIELD - Witnesses' claims of fear and forgetfulness are hindering a death row inmate's bid to prove that prosecutorial mis...

Fenwick & West, Farella Braun & Martel and McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enerson certainly know how to sell themselves -...

San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew has recruited three new patent attorneys for its Northern California offices. "...

Downtown Los Angeles' Breidenbach Buckley Hutching Halm & Hamblet has lost one of its attorneys to the Westside. James Kam...

The appellate courts have not established practical guidelines to determine punitive-damages liability, thus complicating oppo...

Three times is a charm for Cruz Reynoso, University of California, Los Angeles, law professor and special counsel to the Los A...

Paraphrasing the Beatles, Joseph Posner suggests that the recent Armendariz decision was, for plaintiffs' lawyers, a big tease...

RIVERSIDE - A sheriff's detective who was injured in an auto accident with an Ecstasy-induced woman who had just attended a ra...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A Century City attorney accused of assisting in a "dirty tricks" campaign against an opponent of the Rail C...

Federal prosecutors dropped charges Friday against a Santa Monica salesman after his lawyers offered evidence that they say sh...

The former teen-age girlfriend of rogue Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez has told federal investigators that Perez shot...

Just because an attorney went to a prestigious school, or has a good book of business, doesn't mean that he or she will automa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown won't have to give up his $1 million downtown home in order to play a leading role i...

Los Angeles County's service workers union announced Friday afternoon that post-strike contract bargaining had resulted in sig...

SAN DIEGO - Guided by a coalition of academics and executives from high-technology industries, a computer and technology crime...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday urged the Los Angeles City Council to voice its support for an initiative on the Nov. 7 ballo...

When immigration officers came knocking at his door in 1987, Michel Shehadeh thought they were coming to congratulate him. Two...

Twelve Tuttle & Taylor lawyers - including the managing partner and seven other partners, two special counsel, one of-coun...

The proper use of the GHAD law can open up previously undevelopable areas to development.

The California Supreme Court gave no obvious hints during oral arguments how it will rule on the constitutionality of a statut...

Attorney Ronald S. Katz struck fear in the hearts of opposing witnesses in a recent trial. In fact, after watching Katz tear a...

When I was a young media lawyer, the United States Supreme Court decided Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc., 418 U.S. 323 (1974), and ...

Once you accept the job offer of your dreams, you must gracefully transition from your current employment to your new venture....

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that California appellate courts have misinterpreted California law on th...

A useful new technique for arguing noneconomic damages has emerged recently that turns trial challenges into big results. ...

In August, the Census Bureau released population data announcing that California is now a "minority-majority state." The censu...

When examining a non-English-speaking witness, keep questions simple and short in order to be fully understood by the interpre...

The last man MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian wants to see won't be showing up in the United States any time soon. ...

Over the last 12 years, David Armstrong has developed a reputation for fairness and generosity in mediating construction dispu...