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Bay Area attorney Thomas Frankovich has filed hundreds of lawsuits against businesses that weren't accessible to the disabled....

Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has landed the former director of the New York regional office of the U.S. Secur...

Under a law passed by Congress this summer, dozens of cases that accuse telecommunications companies like AT&T of cooperat...

Barbara Lynn Major excels as a magistrate judge, much as she did as a world-class swimmer. ...

"We've also put together a bench book for judges, if, God forbid, they have to hear an election contest," Alabama attorney H. ...

Ligand Pharmaceuticals will pay the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a not-for-profit research group, $9.5 million immed...

The Los Angeles County Superior Court has selected Charles McCoy to serve as its presiding judge for 2009-2010, while Lee Edmo...

A recent 9th Circuit ruling protects the rights of junior lien holders in cases where the debtor sells assets in a Chapter 11 ...

Today a group of patients who's insurance was dropped, health care advocates and nurses hope to remind Schwarzenegger of that ...

Plaintiffs' lawyers argue that Apple, in an attempt to enforce an exclusive agreement with AT&T Mobility, electronically d...

The former CEO of UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, agreed Wednesday to pay $30 million and to ...

A federal appellate panel Wednesday rejected a Los Angeles lawyer's argument that his client deserved resentencing by a new ju...

As a new criminal court judge in Sonoma County, and as a service dog trainer, Dana Simonds works to turn lives around. ...

Latham & Watkins has acquired a capital markets specialist for its Hong Kong corporate department.

City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is once again facing scrutiny over millions of dollars paid to outside law firms representing t...

Dennis Montali is the new chief judge of the 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. But he didn't get a pay raise. ...

Although amendments to Family Code Section 2337 were intended to afford both parties greater protection, the burden put on the...

A recent state high court decision gives lawyers and clients a significant new choice about how they arbitrate their disputes,...

Although national health care reform is front and center on the political stage, little attention is being paid to an equally ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday accused three former executives of San Francisco software company Embarcadero T...

The combined legal fees of MGA Entertainment and rival Mattel Inc. in the ongoing Bratz doll case have risen to at least $93 m...

New York-based Proskauer Rose is preparing to take Asia by storm. The firm announced Tuesday it's opening an office in Hong Ko...

Environmental groups accused the Bush administration in a lawsuit Tuesday of illegally weakening protections for species in th...

Senators chose not to address allegations of judicial misconduct made against a California nominee to the federal bench at his...

A former Los Angeles County Superior Court judge who made headlines by losing a judicial election to a bagel shop owner will n...

Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins has landed a Justice Department leader in its Washington, D.C. office.

Stephen J. Connolly began thinking about how to make law enforcement personnel toe the line back when he was still a student i...

San Diego's Coughlin Stoia was lead plaintiffs firm in the case that will net more than $688 million in attorney fees. ...

The severe foreclosure crisis we face reminds us 40 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, of the continuing discriminat...