The maker of Mag-Lite flashlights has once again hammered a competitor in court and won the right to pound the competitor's f...

In legal proceedings that have spanned the Pacific Ocean, 3Com Corp. has succeeded in persuading judges in Hong Kong and the ...

^^The Rodent^^ Legal Trappings The lawyer's midcareer crisis is one crisis too many Lawyer life is basically one crisis after...

Key Data Requests for Financial Information Raise Privacy Concerns By Catherine W. Johnson One of the most controversial prov...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a blistering closing argument, Ciro Mancuso's attorney on Thursday blasted Patrick Hallinan for bringing a ...

By Sharon Berman Dear Sharon: The majority of my practice depends on being fed business from partners in other practice areas...

^^Environmental Law^^ Superfund Junk Two CERCLA Plaintiffs Flunk Daubert Test These decisions demonstrate that CERCLA lawyers...

^^Takings Charge^^ By Michael M. Berger It is a solidly accepted part of the constitutional canon that the federal Civil Righ...

In a case that has sparked a district attorney's investigation into allegations of widespread theft by Los Angeles Municipal ...

Environmentalists and state officials may proceed to trial with claims that three major supermarket chains have violated Prop...

Owners of the highly stylized French "Sephora" perfume shops have accused Macy's West Inc. of a new variation of "trade dress...

SAN FRANCISCO - A criminal defendant does not forfeit the statute of limitations as an affirmative defense if it is not raise...

Now that criminal charges against Buford O. Furrow, accused in the killing of a letter carrier and the wounding of five peopl...

SAN FRANCISCO - A copy of a $10 million settlement check from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. adorns the San Francisco office wall ...

IRVINE - The former manager of a University of California, Irvine medical research laboratory has filed a federal False Claim...

As a prisoner of war in Japan for two years, Lester I. Tenney of San Diego claims he was forced to labor for a mining company...

By John F. Denove In the race to deliver yet even more astronomical profits for their shareholders, corporations have shunned...

By Joseph Posner "If at first one doesn't succeed, try, try again" is a maxim that most people learn from their mothers. It's...

By Conrad R. Aragon "Venerable" is an epithet applied to a person accorded respect by reason of age, dignity and character. I...

By Jerome Fishkin We lawyers are always complaining about clients who try to reduce their bills, don't pay on time or don't p...

Services were held Tuesday for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Burton Bach, who died Saturday. He was 69. Bach had u...

By Anthony J. Oncidi A badly fractured California Supreme Court has upheld an injunction prohibiting the use of "derogatory r...

In a case that the Los Angeles County district attorney's office touted as one of the state's largest workers' compensation f...

Federal and state prosecutors spent Wednesday trying to figure out who should handle the case of Buford O. Furrow, the man al...

Carmel Sella approaches her law career the same way she trains for a marathon. "When you run a marathon what's important is t...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - It was billed as a major corruption case against a trash company and several of its employees who allegedl...

SACRAMENTO - Ronald Branson has picked a lot of fights with judges and lost. Now the vexed Los Angeles County litigant is goi...

The California Supreme Court reinstated a Los Angeles attorney to the practice of law Wednesday, 10 years after disbarring her...

A foster youth - who reportedly was sexually abused by a state employee at a facility contracting with Los Angeles County - ha...

Property Owner Settles With City The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to spend $525,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a ...