Agencies have attempted to compensate for legislative inaction by promulgating their own comprehensive restrictions on tobacco...

After failing to convince the state Legislature to approve their bill attacking protective orders in civil litigation, Califor...

SANTA ANA - An Anaheim woman has filed suit against the University of California regents, the latest person to allege that UC ...

Commercial litigator Steven M. Goldberg, formerly a partner in the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, has retu...

SAN DIEGO - The new president of the California Judges Association asked lawyers and the State Bar to take action against reca...

SANTA ANA - Orange County voters will decide on an initiative that calls for a shutdown on new residential development in San ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court is reviewing allegations by state investigators that high-ranking state prosecuto...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler on Monday ordered the district attorney's office to turn over documents rel...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Contra Costa County judge has allowed two victims of a deadly refinery explosion to proceed with a novel law...

The Los Angeles City Council began deliberations Monday on how best to present the city's case in final negotiations with the ...

This deal stinks. That's what both sides seem to be saying in a Los Angeles Superior Court fight over the nearly $50 million b...

A San Diego Superior Court judge has been granted disability retirement - despite having told court officials she would not be...

A federal judge Monday refused to throw out a confession that white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr. allegedly made to the FBI...

Real estate and finance attorney Patricia T. Sinclair will leave Latham & Watkins to become the first general counsel and ...

Los Angeles-based Adexa Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $75 million. Adexa develops and sells the iCollabo...

Oakland-based DoubleTwist Inc. has filed an initial public offering worth just over $86 million. The company's Web site, Doubl...

Sunnyvale's AeroGen Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $57 million. The company makes pulmonary drug-delivery...

Summing up a string of high-profile deals, Cooley Godward senior associate Carl Sanchez offers modestly, "I've been on a roll,...

Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer has recruited two litigation associates for its 40-attorney Irvine office. Laura Baskurt and ...

Big Brother might not be watching your every move yet, but he apparently has designs on your pets. A proposal the Los Angeles ...

Optical Communication Products Inc. has filed an initial public offering worth $115 million. The Chatsworth-based company make...

With associate turnover reaching some of its highest levels in recent years, law firms are constantly looking to hire associat...

Municipal law attorney Richard Terzian has left the Los Angeles office of New York's LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, where h...

He coulda been a contender. Palo Alto senior corporate finance associate Jim Bucher had it all planned out. Last year at this ...

Nutrisystem.com Inc. has acquired Nestle USA Inc.'s Sweet Success diet meal replacement product line. The stock deal is valued...

Walnut Creek's Morgan Miller & Blair has recruited three new associates: Eric McLaughlin, Jean Hurricane and Kevin Brodehl...

The former intellectual property director of Los Angeles' Times Mirror Co. has joined Katten Muchin Zavis, also in Los Angeles...

Today's law firm technology offers wonderful opportunities for clients, but it also brings with it hidden challenges, which ca...

The court held that a council member can appeal if authorized by the local code as long as due process is not violated. ...

By Christopher J. Kuczynski. In an article titled "ADA Creates Barriers to Jobs for the Handicapped" by Julie Hofius (Forum, A...