Insider Trader Gets Probation, Fined A 25-year-old former securities analyst got a tongue-lashing from a federal judge Friday ...

The attorney representing elusive Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is asking to be relieved as the judge's ...

San Jose's JDS Uniphase Corp. and E-tek Dynamics Inc. have reached a merger agreement. Under the terms of the deal, JDS will t...

Four corporate partners - Thomas F. Chaffin, Stephen M. Wurtzburg, David H. Jaffer and Barry Lee Katzman - have left the San ...

Laura K. O'Connor , former in-house counsel to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, has joined the San Francisco office...

Eva Blacksher, an 86-year-old suffering from dementia, had both her feet amputated while under the "care" of two different nur...

Emeryville's Extensity Inc. commenced an initial public offering of 4 million shares of common stock. Though the expected offe...

Redwood City's Interwave Communications International Ltd. is offering 8 million shares of its common stock at a value of $13 ...

Internet service provider AskJeeves Inc. will acquire Direct Hit Technologies Inc. in a tax-free stock-for-stock transaction v...

L90 Inc., a Santa Monica-based Internet advertising designer, issued an initial public offering of 6.5 million shares of commo...

Are heart-rate monitors, body massagers and the like subject to FDA regulation? By Gregg A. Farley and Mark R. Obenstine ...

Many attorneys are devoting their lives and careers to caring for the elderly - in the legal sense. Elder lawyers often must b...

Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Rocky Delgadillo has expanded the field of candidates for city attorney to three by formally announci...

LARGE FIRMS With smaller billable-hours requirements, comparable salaries, and professional-growth opportunities, accounting f...

When Chris Dewees left Morrison & Foerster in October to be associate general counsel for San Jose's JDS Uniphase, he foun...

Releasing its new pay structure on Wednesday, Latham & Watkins is the first Los Angeles-based firm to snatch up the assoc...

In December, San Diego attorney Randall L. Mason , 51, was sworn in as the brigadier general of the 70th Regional Support Comm...

YORBA LINDA - It's a city dubbed by many of its residents as "the land of gracious living," and eastern Yorba Linda looks the...

YORBA LINDA - It's a city dubbed by many of its residents as "the land of gracious living" - and eastern Yorba Linda looks the...

By Erin O'Bryan Parent-child relationships run amok, creating havoc in law and ethics this week. Danni Lipton's dad Al makes a...

Standing and mootness are really just window-dressing for the more basic debate: Should citizens have access to the courts to ...

OPINION By Michael J. Weinstock Law is serious business. The discussion that follows illuminates the relationships between pri...

VIEWPOINT By Keith Rohman Few moments in a trial lawyer's life are as disheartening as when a jury returns a big verdict again...

^^LITIGATOR PROFILE^^ New Fields by Anne LaJeunesse After he represented presidential paramour Monica Lewinsky under the gaze ...

In an emotional medical malpractice trial, the first for William H. Ginsburg after ending his representation of former White H...

Worker Pleads to Radioactive Prank SANTA ANA - A former University of California Irvine lab technician was sentenced to 120 da...

Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg's article, "Incarceration of All Offenders Is Not the Right Answer" (Forum, Jan. 21), t...

Depraved indifference toward another is easy to recognize but hard to understand. A mother and father who let their baby starv...

A controversy over the American Bar Association's commitment to rights for gays and lesbians erupted Thursday as the associati...

Most of the nation's major environmental laws were adopted or significantly overhauled during the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1970...