State judicial officials agree that closer scrutiny of nominees is necessary in the wake of scandalous charges that Los Angele...

Amid reports that Los Angeles Police Department officers paid a visit to protest leaders just hours after they began setting u...

Behind the scenes of the Los Angeles City Council's narrow approval of a settlement payout to former Black Panther Elmer G. "G...

VICTORVILLE - Although officials found a Victorville man with drugs inside the courthouse, a judge has thrown out the charges ...

San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro has agreed to a "merger of equals" with New York-based Winthrop Stimson Putnam &...

A former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney and four other men have been charged by federal prosecutors with illegall...

A federal judge Monday rejected immigration officials' attempt to maintain custody over a 3-year-old, HIV-infected Thai boy. ...

The court noted that the plaintiffs defined disparity in one way and the county defined disparity in another way. ...

Attorneys, paralegals and support staff are leaving firms in record numbers for competitors and clients, but many are starting...

Seth Zachary, co-managing partner of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, will become chairman of the firm effective Aug. 1. ...

Neal S. Millard, partner with the Los Angeles office of White & Case, has been elected to chair the Judicial Procedures Co...

The good, old-fashioned threatening letter can be one of the lawyer's most effective tools, but, if used improperly or careles...

Before the ink dries on a jury's decision awarding big damages, defendants often place a phone call to the San Fernando Valley...

Conexant Systems Inc. has acquired HotRail Inc. in a transaction valued at $400 million. Conexant, based in Newport Beach, dev...

Twenty years after she started practicing law, Gail E. Suniga, a partner with Palo Alto's Fenwick & West, enjoys a little ...

ORANGE - The Chapman University School of Law has received a $10,000 grant from the Santa Ana-based PacifiCare Foundation, a p...

Patents are popping and the lawsuits are flowing as litigators across the country roll-up their sleeves and take their clients...

We learn some lessons in life easily. Others come at a steep price. Case in point of the latter: the recent trial and convicti...

For many lawyers, work can be too time consuming to allow for regular exercise. Sanford Jossen, a 49-year-old sole practitione...

Litigation partner Stuart A. Shanus, 36, has been tapped as the managing partner for the 55-attorney Los Angeles office of Oak...

Blowing more smoke than Phillip Morris, the FDA finally banned Warner-Lambert's "miracle" drug Rezulin from the market March 2...

There is a forgotten minority that is not afforded basic legal rights. They are not criminals or foreign aliens. In contrast, ...

SANTA ANA - Two former prosecutors will take the bench in Orange County Superior Court following their July 3 appointments by ...

By the narrowest possible margin Friday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to pay its share of a $4.5 million settlement in ...

To bolster the argument that the robotic characters "Bob" and "Hank" are protected by the First Amendment, the brief for Host ...

Under international media scrutiny, U.S. immigration officials appear to be backing down on the immediate deportation of a 3-...

Gov. Gray Davis appointed the first Japanese American woman and a founding member of the Italian American Lawyers Association ...

Six Graham & James associates have followed intellectual property partners Vincent Belusko, David Fehrman and Eric Shih to...

WASHINGTON - After 11 years of appearing on "Cheers," actors George Wendt and John Ratzenberger are certain that everybody kno...

NEW YORK - John McKay has had a rough ride as president of the Legal Services Corp. Year in and year out, some determined memb...