Intellectual property attorney Ed Lynch arrived at Coudert Brothers on Aug. 15, and he says that the transition has been smoot...

Let's make multijurisdictional practice the rule, not the exception, and craft a disciplinary system that protects clients by ...

Use of a small hand-held device has helped Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker receive an award for innovation. And developmen...

The phone rings in Hillary Bibicoff 's Century City office and suddenly she's talking to a client traveling on a Russian resea...

With the advent of new techniques in DNA testing, a countrywide movement has been afoot to determine if defendants have been w...

Just down Wilshire Boulevard from Variety, its competition, The Hollywood Reporter, is trying to wrap up its severance agreeme...

The defendants who are most likely to obtain attorney fees are those who can become aggressive investigators and prosecutors a...

BARSTOW - A federal administrative law judge has ruled that forcing a dozen Mojave Desert ranchers to move their cattle off pu...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in a month, a San Francisco judge has ruled that a Pacific Heights woman can sue for the w...

LOS ANGELES - When a judge's illness forced the reassignment of one of attorney Patricia Glaser's cases shortly before it went...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rudolph Koppl, the owner of the apartment building where two dogs fatally mauled Diane Whipple, has not receiv...

SACRAMENTO - In a case that probes the limits of Proposition 209, the anti-affirmative action initiative, a trio of conservati...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has refused to throw a state Public Utilities Commissioner out of office over accusation...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Judicial Council will ask Gov. Gray Davis for $2.5 billion to operate the state court system for 200...

SAN FRANCISCO - The worm has turned. It seems as if only yesterday young associate lawyers were in the driver's seat. In Silic...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would bail banks out of potentially millions of dollars in liability for delays in removing liens fro...

LOS ANGELES - The first time Los Angeles attorney Tamar Feder saw Densi, a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant from Honduras, h...

LOS ANGELES - J. George Gold remembers the days when practicing law was simpler. Lawyers had less paperwork, more deals closed...

Although bad news for some and good news for others, bankruptcy law is on the rise. With the steady decline in our economy, it...

Negotiations are multidimensional. Inexperienced negotiators, however, often focus primarily on the substantive matters, such ...

LOS ANGELES - The foster care system was intended to protect children from harmful home environments. But evidence is growing ...

LOS ANGELES - One week after allegations of plagiarism led to the firing of an Orange County law school dean, administrators h...

SAN DIEGO - A Berkeley couple has agreed to give some money to a British surrogate mother they hired and then reneged on after...

In the days following President George W. Bush's decision on stem-cell research, the media focused rather narrowly on the numb...

LOS ANGELES - Beginning Monday, Los Angeles Superior Court's Burbank and Glendale branches will convert to the "One Trial" jur...

There are certain things we, as people but mostly as attorneys, are told all our lives that we accept as absolute truths. We h...

That models' bodies were substituted for the actors' bodies was 'abundantly clear given that the vast majority of the featured...

Medical-malpractice litigation is complex, time-consuming and expensive. When two or more defendants are potentially responsib...

SAN FRANCISCO - Grateful Dead Productions lost an important round Thursday in its long legal fight for possession of five of J...