As time has passed since Sept. 11, insurance issues now are becoming a focal point of discussion, as people attempt to deal w...

When is it appropriate to smile again, to laugh, to enjoy trivial pursuits? Posing the question in assorted ways, many of us s...

Professor Edwin A. Locke's salute to Veterans Day, "Honor Veterans Day by Refusing to Sacrifice Values," Forum, Nov. 12, opine...

In the midst of our national chaos, Attorney General John Ashcroft has found it wise to heap additional misery on a most unlik...

After the attacks on the World Trade Center, businesses located in the buildings will attempt the seemingly impossible task of...

WASHINGTON - President Bush's decision to try terrorists in special military tribunals could make it easier to obtain convicti...

Mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution are praised as ways to avoid trial. Much is written in favor of me...

When may a minor [or other incompetent person] proceed in arbitration without a guardian or a guardian ad litem? The answer sh...

The American Heritage Dictionary defines "art" as "methods employed in the performance of activities." The tome defines an art...

Customers attacked by other patrons at a Los Angeles fast-food restaurant claimed that employees not only failed to stop the a...

The attorney minimized fallout from a manager's failure to talk to a co-worker, who supported the plaintiff's claim by pointi...

When vacation comes to mind for many overworked Americans, taking the entire family mountain climbing at Kilimanjaro might be ...

Los Angeles attorney Paul Alvarez recognizes that his specialty, defending businesses against personal-injury claims, isn't al...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sixth and Mayhem moved to the San Francisco Examiner's executive suite Tuesday as a lawsuit threat frayed publ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trailing at the polls, city attorney candidate Dennis Herrera was expected to come out swinging during a debat...

With more jobs lost in September than in any month in over a decade, America needs an economic-stimulus measure that is effect...

OAKLAND - An unusual lawsuit claiming an East Bay tenants advocacy project violates state business laws by preparing fraudulen...

RIVERSIDE - The waste from an illegal drug lab is what a prosecutor calls "really the bottom of the food chain" for methamphet...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutor Rolanda Pierre-Dixon remembers what it used to be like: A woman would call police to ...

LOS ANGELES - When two Pakistani students appear in U.S. immigration court in Lancaster on visa violations, they, like hundred...

Much of the U.S. Act to Provide Appropriate Tools to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, or PATRIOT Act, and its enhanced police...

SAN DIEGO - Leonard A. Kaufman, a Harvard Law School graduate who for many years devoted himself to the American Civil Liberti...

The Federal Arbitration Act applies to contracts "evidencing a transaction involving commerce." 9 U.S.C. Section 2. That secti...

LOS ANGELES - When two Pakistani students appear in U.S. immigration court in Lancaster on visa violations, they, like hundred...

SAN FRANCISCO - If your mother's a lawyer and your father's a federal appellate judge, suing people may seem like part of grow...

With more jobs lost in September than in any month in over a decade, America needs an economic-stimulus measure that is effect...

Here is a glimpse at the possible telephonic future, which may look similar to our telephonic past. Traditional long-distance ...

The Federal Arbitration Act applies to contracts "evidencing a transaction involving commerce." 9 U.S.C. Section 2. That secti...

According to Money magazine's annual job survey, paralegals have passed up lawyers to become those with the 11th best professi...