Another lawyer who has returned to his roots is Robert C. Funsten , who left his post as in-house attorney at Watson Pharmaceu...

After working as a business executive for two years, litigator Charles H. Samel has returned to Howrey Simon Arnold & Whit...

The Los Angeles office of Thelen Reid & Priest will move across the street this fall. The New York-based firm has signed a...

Associate layoffs, partner defections and merger mania have your lawyerly head aching? You and your partners deserve a little ...

With some of the sporting world's most high-profile clients, Washington, D.C.-based Arnold & Porter has announced the crea...

Robert Ford has parted ways with Seyfarth Shaw 's San Francisco office after 25 years with the firm to join Jones Day Reavis &...

Scenic grounds and success rates will never erase the ugly events that took place at Barlow Respiratory Hospital - events that...

Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Inc. has agreed to acquire the ice cream business of Nestlé Holdings USA Inc., a subsidiary of Nestl ...

Focus Column - By Richard L. Charnley - In the last 10 years, California courts have taken aim at "peculiar risk" claims - tor...

If it weren't for his wife's rejecting the notion of moving from Southern California to Tulsa, Okla., attorney John L. Simonso...

Employment Column - By Catherine K. Rogers and Martha Fay Africa - Eventually in your career as an attorney, you probably will...

Santa Monica neutral Deborah Rothman says she does "whatever it takes" to convince parties that litigation isn't the answer. ...

Round Table - In May, Verdicts & Settlements sat down with the following eight legal professionals to discuss the implicat...

Kids will be kids, as every parent knows, and often they play games that end in the occasional bruised knee or "strawberry" sk...

Focus on ADR - By Alexander S. Polsky - Practitioners of alternative dispute resolution are well aware that mediations have th...

SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield will not be able to view images of people having sex with animals, but...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a clear message that a decision declaring the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional will be revisited, the ...

LOS ANGELES - A Laguna Niguel postal employee has sued the Coca-Cola Co., claiming a can of Coke he bought was not the "real t...

Q&ADR By Jeff Kichaven and Deborah Rothman - Q: What are your expectations regarding honesty at mediations? - A: From medi...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Earth First jury misunderstood the evidence and was unfairly swayed by the plaintiffs' lawyers, defense co...

LOS ANGELES - Farzad Yadollahi and Fariborz Biyazaei, two defendants in a breach of contract suit, had a run of bad luck. They...

LOS ANGELES - In her 18-year career as a criminal defense attorney, Century City attorney Arna H. Zlotnik has not become a hou...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court in Sacramento on Thursday refused an oil industry request to raise the amount of MTBE ...

REDWOOD CITY - A hearing on a precedent-setting proposal to forcibly medicate a murder defendant even though he has been decla...

LOS ANGELES - Government vouchers that assist parents in sending their children to private religious schools do not violate th...

SAN DIEGO - A stamp dealer from the San Diego area faces charges stemming from alleged bid-rigging in what the U.S. Justice De...

SACRAMENTO - In a decision that further weakens the California Department of Managed Health Care, a state appeal court ruled T...

LOS ANGELES -Los Angeles Superior Court has mailed ballots for one open court commissioner vacancy to 412 Superior Court judge...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for retired attorney Edgar D. Yeomans will take place Sunday at the Los Angeles Tennis Club. ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting about this week's mostly negative grand jury report on the district ...