THE CLOSER: By Craig Simon Like many lawyers, I began my career doing injury defense work. By the time I became a partner in a...

Two men, one who worked for the county jail system and another who sold food to the jails, both of whom ended up incarcerated ...

On the Move: By Tamara Scott Baker & McKenzie's San Diego office is losing another prominent partner - litigation attorney...

Deals: San Jose's Cisco Systems Inc. has completed its stock-for-stock acquisition of Queyton Corp., based in Stockholm, Swede...

Firm Watch: By Tamara Scott The San Diego office of McKenna & Cuneo has merged with San Diego-based Harrigan & Ruff , ...

Firm Watch: San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has broadened its reach in Texas, opening a 15-attorney Dallas offi...

Deals: OmniSky Corp. has filed for an initial public offering of stock valued at about $115 million. OmniSky develops technolo...

Strolling along San Francisco's Embarcadero toward opening day at Pac Bell Park in April, Jesse Capin Smith felt proud. Smith,...

A police department board of rights hearing for an officer implicated in the Rampart corruption scandal will remain in limbo u...

Bringing to 96 the number of criminal cases thrown out of court due to the Rampart police corruption scandal, two more convict...

Calling it "the silliest thing I've heard in my entire life," a major proponent of Measure F - the Orange County initiative th...

The Los Angeles County Grand Jury report released Friday gives a flunking grade to juvenile correctional facilities operated b...

Sacramento Superior Court flags flew at half-staff last week in honor of retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Roy Lee Nor...

RIVERSIDE - The road to a legal education for Inland Empire students may be getting less congested. Supporters are hoping the ...

SANTA ANA - A gang leader convicted in the 1996 execution-style murder of a California Highway Patrol officer was sentenced to...

Focus: By Alex Ricciardulli In a three-strikes case, the defendant's current crime by itself will normally carry a maximum pun...

SPECIAL ISSUE: CORPORATE LAW By Barry Landsberg and Harvey Rochman The California Supreme Court held recently that fluid recov...

The same day that the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the separation of church and state, wire stories told of another deadly ba...

Dicta By David Brickner A supremely important area of a trial lawyer's practice is the formal settlement conference. The sett...

The Pepperdine University Board of Regents has elected attorney Thomas J. Trimble as its new chairman. Trimble, of Henderson, ...

A Roundtable Discussion: Anyone who has used a computer, played the stock market or even mildly kept in the news loop has hear...

The Public Eye: By Ross Johnson The hip-shaking and pot-banging you heard coming out of Los Angeles law offices Thursday was b...

Forum: By Jennifer Lynn Orff On Feb. 3, Marian Rubin, a New Jersey grandmother, was arrested when she went to pick up film at...

AT ISSUE: By Deborah Rosenthal California based clothing manufacturer Guess? Inc., recently won a $7.6 million arbitration awa...

Litigator Profile: By Deborah Rosenthal If Daniel M. Petrocelli had been a better musician, O.J. Simpson never might have been...

SAN FRANCISCO - An insurance company charged with handling a claim in bad faith cannot reduce its damages by arguing that the ...

SANTA ANA - There's a new "Top Gun" trial lawyer in Orange County. Daniel J. Callahan of Santa Ana's Callahan & Blaine sho...

Viewpoint dot.COMmentary: By Mark S. Lee The Internet is a powerful medium of communication, education, entertainment and comm...

SPECIAL ISSUE: CORPORATE LAW By Nancy J. Warren The pressures on in-house attorneys are enormous and threaten to increase as c...