Attorneys Michelle M. La Mar and Robert C. Shenfeld of the Los Angeles office of Kelley, Drye & Warren recently became par...

Column by Bobbie McMorrow and Ralph Savarese - "Why would you open in Kirkland, Washington, or Austin, Texas?" we asked a mana...

For frequent Internet users, pop-up advertisements likely draw a reflex response: Click to close, and then go back to what you...

Everyone who's anyone in the Southern California legal community knows the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles' annu...

Five lawyers from Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps helped seven entities that owned and operated 130 Burger King franchis...

After two earlier attempts to secure a buyer in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, Software Logistics was finally purchased by CM...

LOS ANGELES -For the first time in a decade, the National Black Prosecutors Association will hold it's annual meeting in Los A...

LOS ANGELES - Case law about who can be held liable for conspiracy to breach fiduciary duty is not as clear as it could be, a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For weeks, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been waging an unusually aggressive campaign to defeat the state'...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors cannot use a peremptory challenge to shop for a new, more sympathetic judge when they refile a case ...

Led by Andrew Bogen, a partner at Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Northrop Grumman appears it will finally succeed i...

LOS ANGELES - A federal lawmaker, angered by problems in Los Angeles County's child protective system, announced Friday that s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing the poor economy and a declining stock market, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker laid off four associ...

SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield, accused of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, will...

SAN FRANCISCO -The sidewalks of Los Altos are once again open for business, after a federal judge ordered the city to stop enf...

LOS ANGELES - Since California abolished public executions in 1858, capital punishment gradually has receded from public view,...

SAN DIEGO - President Bush has nominated a Superior Court judge who is also a veteran federal prosecutor to become the U.S. at...

Focus Column - By Edward A. Klein - In deciding the most recent skirmish between microprocessor giants Advanced Micro Devices ...

There is nothing on one plain white wall of Ken Crowder's office in a glass-enclosed Century City high-rise except a photo. Fr...

SAN FRANCISCO - For weeks, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been waging an unusually aggressive campaign to defeat the state's...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge appears sympathetic to claims by thousands of Mexican migrant workers that they were cheated o...

LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could curtail malicious prosecution suits drastically, the state's high court has held that a t...

Forum Column - By John H. Sullivan - If there were a contest that awarded prizes in the category of civil justice legislation ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court ruling that the U.S. government cannot indefinitely detain people who were never formall...

Focus Column - By Anthony T. Falzone - Post-mortem publicity rights are strange creatures compared to other species of intelle...

SAN DIEGO - A forensic entomologist called by defense lawyers said Thursday that the body of Danielle van Dam was first expose...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors can upgrade a misdemeanor to a felony even if the original charges have been dismissed, a state appe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eight attorneys in Cooley Godward's technology transactions group will be transferred from the firm's San Fran...

SAN FRANCISCO - The climactic court tests of rival bankruptcy reorganization plans proposed by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. an...

SACRAMENTO - Gerald Gunther, a Stanford law professor and constitutional law scholar who wrote a textbook used by thousands of...