Had the left-wing PRD, or Democratic Revolution Party, won, Jose Jacques Medina might have been on his way to Mexico City to c...

SAN JOSE - Socrates Peter Manoukian prides himself on being the Santa Clara Superior Court system's utility player, the kind ...

Practitioners and parties know that employment mediations can be challenging on a psychological level. The parties' emotions r...

With more lawyers than ever battling each other for business, just doing a good job is no longer good enough. ...

This case will curtail other design-defect claims premised on the theory that auto manufacturers had a duty to install airbags.

FORUM The announcement of a rough draft of the human genome could be a moment for celebrating our common humanity. ...

^^Real Property^^ Avoid or Insure Risk Management Is Essential for Developers By Jeffrey D. Masters The real estate industry ...

SAN JOSE -Prosecutors in the Avant criminal trade secrets case got a glimmer of hope last week when a 6th District Court of A...

^^Bench Press^^ By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. [mug] Herb Barish, president of Los Angeles County Bar Association's Trial Practice...

By Russ Nichols Ralph Nader, recently nominated as the Green Party's presidential candidate, and Pat Buchanan, who is seeking...

^^Real Property^^ Pipe Dream Corroded Water Pipes Yield Takings Liability The city's defense would have required a fundamenta...

A meeting of a Los Angeles City Council subcommittee handling issues related to the upcoming Democratic National Convention c...

Sacramento law Prof. J. Clark Kelso was named Wednesday as the acting head of the state Insurance Department by departing Com...

Poor Ramon. Someone stole his brand new Pinto - not the kind that eats hay and lives in a barn, but a Ford Pinto. He'd only ha...

SAN JOSE - Nothing is extraordinary about the Santa Clara County civil grand jury's annual report - except that it exists at ...

Saying the case before it opened a Pandora's box of deceit and "bureaucratic disobedience" on the part of the Santa Ana Polic...

In contrast to the Los Angeles Police Department's reputed circle-the-wagons approach to outside scrutiny, Los Angeles County...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the 1996 robbery conviction of a Los Angeles man Wednesday, ruling a state-level pr...

Los Angeles County on Wednesday not only moved another step closer to expanding the five-member Board of Supervisors to nine m...

From the Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A judge who helped write Arkansas' ethics laws stepped aside from hearing Presi...

Why, Benjamin Treuhaft wonders, should piano tuners have more strikes against them than baseball players? All that the New Yo...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg lied about his background, academic degrees and military service, accordin...

As the American Bar Association opens its weeklong annual meeting in New York today, it has plans for nearly 2,000 programs, ...

DA Debate Set By Valley Bar District Attorney Gil Garcetti and his challenger, veteran county prosecutor Steve Cooley, will s...

Richard Shaw and Bruce O'Brien have merged their tax firm with Higgs, Fletcher & Mack. Both joined the new firm as partne...

The unbelievable drivel spewed forth by Michael Kinsley is sophomoric, at best ("GOP Position Clear: Execute Women Who Have A...

By Scott Turow I was delighted by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold Miranda v. Arizona , 384 U.S. 436 (1966), the 3...

By John Smith Recently, a group of Marin County parents launched a recall drive against Superior Court Judges Michael Dufficy...

Reversing the trial court, the 2nd District Court of Appeal has granted a motion to allow evidence into trial from an investi...

Appellate Law--That's Final Are Class-Certification Rulings Appealable? Courts in California follow what has been referred to ...