LOS ANGELES - Robert McGahan, one of the lead federal prosecutors in the criminal case against the Milberg Weiss class-action ...

Forum Column - By Stan Yogi - Years before the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision, Californians waged their ...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - Fred Griffin is expanding his practice quickly, as the newest member of Dreier Stein Kahan ...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Patent prosecution attorney Grant T. Langton has a new home today - the Los Angeles office...

Industry Watch - By Pat Broderick - A partner in the real estate, land use and environmental practice group of Sheppard Mullin...

LOS ANGELES - In an effort to deal with the massive caseload in California's Central District, some civil cases will go direct...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will decide whether a key federal civil rights law protects workers ...

Focus Column - By Ilana S. Rubel - Internet aggregators who take information from other sites without authorization likely wil...

Industry Watch - By Amity Bacon - The U.S. Supreme Court has set a milestone with the appointment of the first woman as specia...

In his recently published book, "A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Camp...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo acknowledges his office has spent almost all of his annual budget for outside cou...

Texas attorney David L. Sheller got what he wanted from the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles, which erased his $95,...

Judge Susan Etezadi's experiences with the law have taken her as far as The Hague and, most recently, landed her on the bench ...

SAN DIEGO - A California lawyer has won a $188 million verdict for a Mexican businessman who claimed a Texan defamed him in a ...

Industry Watch - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's l...

Dispensing justice over a wide area in Northern California, Commissioner Peter Twede is known for his patience and his clear e...

Former Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn, who has been working in the private sector since leaving public office three years ago...

After a love of Los Angeles brought him across country, Magistrate Judge Frederick F. Mumm enjoyed 20 years in private practic...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for a homeless paraplegic man found 'dumped' in a Skid Row gutter last February filed a lawsuit Thursd...

SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service will take place tomorrow for retired U.S. District Judge Spencer M. Williams. Williams die...

A murder defendant who had a dysfunctional relationship with his court-appointed counsel is not guaranteed new legal represent...

RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court judge has tossed out a lawsuit in which two former students of a religious high school claimed ad...

RIVERSIDE - A company that refuels commercial aircraft at March Air Reserve Base near Riverside has agreed to pay $100,000 to ...

Forum Column - By Joe Domanick - A conveyer-belt system of criminal justice in California has led to overcrowded prisons and a...

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - Paying employee wages with stored-value "pay cards" could be legally viable. ...

Focus Column - By Diane J. Klein - Several trademark dilution issues are at play in a suit filed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers ...

Defections at Heller Ehrman continued this week when attorneys James Olson and Randall Schai relocated to Jones Day's four-yea...

LOS ANGELES - As a young man in the U.S. Navy, Benjamin S. Seigel got his first taste of the law. His job: defend an officer a...

Amy Solomon, the newest president of Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles was preparing for life as a world-traveling...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the face of what seems to be inevitable litigation in the wake of a Christmas Day tiger attack, San Francis...