As a former managing partner of Arnold & Porter in Washington D.C., Jim Jones remembers when the position of general couns...

Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage - Veteran litigator Angela Padilla has left Morrison & Foerster after 16 years to become ...

U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., has introduced a bill calling for improved medical care for immigrants held in federal detent...

Few cases go to trial at Orange County's Harbor Justice Center thanks to Judge Margaret Anderson, who is amazingly deft at set...

While Merck's decision to extend the deadline for claimants joining its proposed $4.85 billion Vioxx personal-injury settlemen...

No one gets an edge with Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Applegate, who seeks to treat with respect and dig...

Charles Crompton, a Latham & Watkins San Francisco partner, was elected to chair the firm's global pro bono committee. To ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

“Putting an innocent person in jail is the legal equivalent of a plane crash,” said attorney Allen R. Bloom, whose client Cynt...

After a nine-week trial that fascinated Los Angeles' legal and entertainment communities, a federal jury began deliberations T...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Though there is still much work to be done, China has made enormous strides toward estab...

Caroline Vincent started building her alternative dispute resolution career 21 years ago, long before the lawyer-to-mediator p...

Focus Column - By Peter S. Selvin - The tripartite relationship between insured, insurer and counsel appointed by the insurer ...

EBay Inc. revealed a redacted version of a complaint filed in Delaware Chancery Court against Craigslist's controlling shareho...

A Ventura County man convicted of impersonating a lawyer and defrauding 17 "clients" of $50,000 has been sentenced to nine yea...

Plaintiffs who take home awards for emotional distress could be under increased scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service fol...

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - A simple, well-intentioned law addressing meal-period requirements has turned into...

A former Orange County deputy public defender has been convicted of stalking an ex-girlfriend and sending her harassing e-mail...

The White House has nominated San Diego County Superior Court Judge Michael N. Anello to be a judge on the U.S. District Court...

Did it really take an anonymous prison inmate to alert the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that it had a critical problem wi...

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded more than $15 million in compensatory damages to a teenager who suffered permane...

The first personal injury trial against drugmaker Pfizer over its painkiller Bextra was postponed indefinitely, leading an exp...

Forum Column - By Kurt Melchior - Trial lawyers who get picked as jury members have a unique perspective during the process.

The Los Angeles office of Dykema has gained Monica J. Frascona as an associate in the firm's litigation department. To find ou...

U.S. Court of Appeals judges Richard Posner and Stephen Reinhardt are engaged in a war of words. Reinhardt takes aim at Posner...

Disgraced private investigator Anthony Pellicano told a jury Wednesday he was "effectively a lone ranger" who ran a successful...

Artist Kent Twitchell will receive $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit he filed after workers painted over his mural that had gra...

Securities litigation partner George H. Brown is staying in Palo Alto but leaving Heller Ehrman's office for that of Gibson, D...

Judges and arbitrators can rest easy that they won't derail their cases by being candid about tangential connections to the pa...

Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - The Supreme Court's recent death penalty ruling, with its multiple opinions, revealed how t...