The nation's two-party system has a counterpart in Los Angeles law firms: those who are concerned about the logistics of work...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clarifying what constitutes sufficient evidence of potential racial profiling to merit a jury trial, a federal...

A community meeting in a mid city police station Tuesday turned tense over fears that protesters at the upcoming Democratic Na...

By John M. Curtis. Average American families now spend about half a year working for federal, state and local governments. Mos...

By The Rodent. The aging secretary whose fingers haven't touched a computer keyboard or a Federal Express label in more than a...

Do we truly see ourselves as others see us? Do judges, for example, mistake a lawyer's sneer of contempt for a crooked smile? ...

By Clyde Leland. Choose quotes carefully and present them so the reader understands their importance. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court Monday ordered a trial for a surrogate mother seeking custody of a son whose conceptio...

By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus. Desired Declaration Lack of Disclosure Reversible Error Only if Party Prejudiced Al...

DENVER - The first segment of the nation's first statewide electronic court filing system is now online. Attorneys filing case...

A federal judge ruled Monday that a defense lawyer must tell a grand jury who paid him, and how much, to represent a convicted...

A state appellate court ruled Monday that a woman's right against self-incrimination was not violated when she was forced to t...

Services were held Monday for Frederick Charles Dockweiler, the last surviving child of Isidore B. Dockweiler, a Los Angeles c...

SAN DIEGO - Outwardly, nothing was unusual about the July 1998 lunch meeting at the Uptowner, a San Bernardino restaurant, wh...

By Dick Goldberg. Score one for the geezers. Down by three runs in their final at bat, a motley team of self-styled "old guys"...

A proposal to bolster the investigative capabilities of the inspector general's office and possibly other city of Los Angeles...

Wear latex gloves when swabbing blood samples from puddles on the street. Plastic baggies are handy not only for storing blood...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court Monday upheld a $4.65 million damage verdict against Southern California's Metrolink...

Buford O. Furrow Jr., the avowed white supremacist accused of shooting up a Granada Hills Jewish center and killing a Filipino...

SAN FRANCISCO - Without resolving whether free exercise of religion trumps civil rights protections, a federal appellate court...

Steinway Musical Instruments Inc. has agreed to acquire Elkhart, Ind.'s United Musical Instruments Holding Inc. The deal is va...

Mannis & Phillips, a Century City family law boutique known for representing high-profile clients, from Hollywood stars to...

Tampa-based Holland & Knight has acquired the Los Angeles and Tokyo offices of New York-based Whitman Breed Abbot & Mo...

Reeves has settled the circuit split on a discrimination plaintiff's burden of proof, endorsing a common-sense approach instea...

By Jay Sekulow. Wrangling over the proper rules for church-state relations seems never-ending, especially when it involves all...

Nobody likes to miss the boat - especially the S.S. Technology Practice - and Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner is no exception....

Plum Creek Timber Co. is acquiring the Timber Co. unit of Georgia-Pacific Corp. The deal, valued at $4 billion, is expected to...

With business driving the homeless from Skid Row, activists like lawyer Dan Marlmalefsky and the Rev. Alice Callahan are fight...

International corporate attorney Joseph M. Barbeau, an 18-year veteran of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, has defecte...

Fighting a retaliation claim requires showing that whatever happened to an employee was unrelated to the employee's earlier pr...