Anna Graves, formerly of-counsel in the Los Angeles home office of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, has moved her practice...

CREJ Staff Report The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences purchased an 118,000-square-foot building at 1313 N. Vine S...

Tampa's Holland & Knight found some unlikely Thespians among its San Francisco lawyers. Litigation partner Charles Coleman...

LOS ANGELES - To Bob Chanin, lead counsel for the National Education Association, the question of whether school vouchers are ...

SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento Superior Court judge will rule soon on whether the State Bar must pay as much as $2 million in fees ...

LOS ANGELES - When DeAngelo Brooks died on Jan. 20, he is believed to have become the first child murdered in the Los Angeles ...

WASHINGTON - At the risk of belaboring the dramatic case of Bush v. Gore, the following were what I considered the best...

SAN FRANCISCO - Actor Dustin Hoffman cannot protect himself from a fashion update at the hands of L.A. Magazine, using digital...

LOS ANGELES - The pretty woman with closely cropped hair peers through wide, expressive eyes as she recalls growing up with im...

Section 104(b) of the Bankruptcy Code provides for automatic adjustments for inflation every three years to some of its provis...

SAN FRANCISCO - A government attorney accused Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Thursday of trying to use its bankruptcy to avoi...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today and Saturday for Carl Joseph Schuck, a retired Los Angeles trial attorney whose o...

SAN FRANCISCO - In order to keep intact a jury that is threatening to disintegrate and cause a mistrial, San Francisco deputy ...

LOS ANGELES - The Compton Courts Scholarship Fund has awarded scholarships to 24 high-school graduates and college students. J...

LOS ANGELES - In the second potential class action filed against Six Flags Magic Mountain in a month, a group of minority men ...

SAN JOSE - A San Jose lawyer who represented a former city attorney's office investigator in a successful civil rights lawsuit...

'Deputy Duh' admits that defense attorneys' duties can be honorable as well as necessary. ...

LOS ANGELES - A civil-rights activist and former editor of the L.A. Focus newspaper filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit Thurs...

One of the most frustrating things about land-use litigation for landowners has been the procedural gauntlet that lies between...

As we know, cross-examination is risky. The witness, at best, is indifferent to your case and, more than likely, actually want...

LOS ANGELES - Fearing the wrath of lawyers and legislators, members of the State Bar Board of Governors on Thursday rejected p...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court reaffirmed Thursday that an injured employee of an independent contractor cannot ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. wants to keep secret the hourly rates it is being charged for legal services outs...

SAN FRANCISCO - The impending departure of U.S. Attorney Robert S. Mueller III to become FBI director creates a vacancy for th...

LOS ANGELES - They call it the Hall of Tears. It's the second-floor hallway of the Los Angeles County Courthouse, where batter...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tapping U.S. Attorney Robert S. Mueller III as the next FBI director gives the Bush administration a career pr...

The statute exempts "evidence of indebtedness" that meets one of two tests - but only for parties who meet the statute's sophi...

Saelzler is the most recent case to circumscribe the ability of plaintiffs to sue property owners for injuries resultin...

LOS ANGELES - James F. Hogg will become dean of Western State University College of Law in Fullerton on July 30. Hogg replaces...

In the old song, much is made of whether you pronounce the word "tomato" or "tomahto." The lesson to be learned by the end of ...