Forget checkers, chess, cards, Pac Man and Nintendo. The game of the 21st Century is about to be publicly released and, like s...

It began as a story about a team of investment bankers who break away from an established brokerage house to start their own f...

The Supreme Court counseled trial courts to consider the degree to which the legal market already compensates for the Serrano ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Civil rights attorneys have hailed a ruling in a massive education lawsuit that targets decrepit and overcrowd...

The West Coast may be the place for entrepreneurs to strike gold - of the precious metal or dot-com variety - but for investor...

Employee stock-ownership plans can cut significantly the costs of financing the purchase of stock. ...

LOS ANGELES - Charles M. Walker, a prominent Los Angeles tax attorney who worked under President Ford as the assistant secreta...

RIVERSIDE - It would have been a messy escape attempt. But pawing through the contents of the toilet bowl is the only way Rive...

VICTORVILLE - A San Bernardino County commissioner has denied a motion for summary judgment by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Co...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer accused of sending threatening e-mails to opposing counsel in Los Angeles and San Diego probably suffer...

LOS ANGELES - Kristina Tapia considers herself a normal 17-year-old, an 11th-grader who is looking forward to college but who ...

* Litigation * By Howard Varinsky And Paulette Taylor Legal professionals often debate whether celebrities get fair trials. J...

SAN FRANCISCO - Navy Commander Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is an ace-pilot-turned-lawyer who plays fast and loose with the rules as...

LOS ANGELES - Reg Fudge Jr. started his 40s as a car salesman and his 50s as a criminal defense lawyer. By his mid-50s, he had...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court opinion published this week will strengthen the rights of California property owners in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the eve of the arraignment in San Francisco's fatal dog-mauling case, the city's public defender's office a...

SAN FRANCISCO - In Stanislaus County's 61-year-old courthouse, the antiquated heating and air conditioning systems leave emplo...

* Alternative Dispute Resolution * By Guy W. Stilson Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms are especially valuable in ent...

By Linda Rapattoni Nevada Journal Staff Writer A few years ago, leaders of the Western Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C...

LOS ANGELES - High-school shootings and defamation lawsuits against informants have led California legislators to seek liabili...

* Alternative Dispute Resolution * By Gerald F. Phillips Disputes in the motion picture industry, which has been called one o...

Tiny, tiny particles - so small they are called microspheres - are at the center of a big biotechnology legal battle. BioSpher...

Despite its repeated denials that its officers engage in the abhorrent and illegal practice of racial profiling, the Los Angel...

SB476 would return California to the dark ages of civil procedure, when form ruled over substance and frivolous lawsuits linge...

Hundreds of lawyers are suspended yearly for not paying bar dues. ...

The Humphrey decision adds a new barb to the already-thorny problem of enforcing attendance-control policies with regard to di...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge on Wednesday ordered a woman accused of a double homicide to stand trial for murder based s...

In Jackson v. Georgia, 91 Ga. 322 (1892), Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley found the following for the court: As defined...

The legitimacy of private arbitration as a means of vindicating statutory rights is far from settled, even after Circuit Ci...