In Valladoli , the California Supreme Court faced the issue of whether a post-verdict amendment of an information is permissib...

VENTURA - A marathon legal battle between a Simi Valley homeowners' association and a contractor has been resolved with a set...

John N. Schwartz suffered from dementia, was diabetic and had a single kidney when he underwent surgery for a fractured hip at...

SAN FRANCISCO - More Bay area law firms have jumped onto the associate salary bandwagon, and in doing so, some are expressing ...

While California's largest law firms have been busy one-upping associate salaries, Los Angeles public interest law firms Bet T...

On this week's re-run of 'Ally McBeal,' a group called Mothers Opposed to Pornographic Material tries to shut down a female mu...

FORUM In our litigious society, creative legal defenses are becoming standard operating procedure. Page 6. By Marianne Means D...

After more than a year of allowing 100 elementary school students to be housed in an auditorium, it took less than two weeks ...

Taxing Torment Proposed Act Re-establishes Exempt Status for Emotional-Distress Claims Not Based on Physical Injury. ...

DICTA Lawyers face the daily challenge of determining which bias-free references to use in addressing delicate issues. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fans of fictional gumshoe Archibald McNally have followed the detective through "McNally's Secret," "McNally's...

DICTA For attorneys who once enjoyed the practice of law but have now become dissatisfied, Steven Keeva's new book can help in...

Two would-be law students were sentenced Wednesday to one year in custody and ordered to help pay $96,000 in restitution for ...

FORUM Not since the wave's introduction at a Notre Dame-USC football game has the world been so crazed about an invention - un...

Allred, Maroko and Goldberg, the Los Angeles law firm known for putting its clients into the spotlights of news cameras, is th...

While surfing the Internet, an employer comes across a Web site called the "First Amendment Gang," which advocates the overthr...

A state appeal panel has reversed a cocaine possession conviction because the defendant was not given extra peremptory challe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Ira A. Brown Jr., a retired San Francisco jurist who educated civil litigators for years as co-author o...

WASHINGTON - A Republican senator on Wednesday reiterated his vow to block the confirmation of all of President Clinton's rem...

SANTA ANA - In comments indicating that he may be leaning toward issuing a temporary injunction allowing students at El Modena...

The Internet revolution is turning a Beverly Hills lawyer into an investment banker. So, yes, the World Wide Web does perform...

The Los Angeles City Council inched closer to a reported $40 million settlement of police overtime lawsuits Wednesday, despit...

Just days before trial was scheduled to start, the Los Angeles City Council approved a $175,000 settlement Wednesday of a sex...

California's three-strikes law does not substantially reduce crime. Instead, many nonviolent, small-time criminals are being i...

By Martin Kruming Rob Trentacosta of Boudreau & Trentacosta has been installed as this year's president of Consumer Attorn...

The Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles has honored six people for their work on behalf of the state's consumers and...

By Matthew P. Guasco Medical-malpractice lawsuits are highly specialized, complex and expensive to litigate. Therefore, in ord...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a rare criminal prosecution for alleged civil rights violations, a former Pelican Bay prison inmate told ju...

Bet Tzedek Will Honor Two People Bet Tzedek, a nonprofit law center, will honor the philanthropic efforts of two people at its...

By Charles Levendosky Our nation begins the new millennium by being the only country in the Americas, Europe and most of the w...