Attorneys Association Will Present Program on Creating a Trial Theme - The Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles holds...

Employment Law - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Lawyers, like surfers, are looking to ride the next big wave. Law practice ebbs and ...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the quasi-governmental pension protection agency, a...

Forum Column - By Magaly de Oliveira Marques, Ann Hayman and Lourdes Rivera - Women in America had reason to celebrate on Jan....

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Thomas C. Klein - Employees of a publicly traded company expect to be participants in the c...

LOS ANGELES - A group of Los Angeles lawyers that for decades successfully picked who would represent the county on the State ...

FULLERTON - The arraignment of former priest John Peter Lenihan, who is charged with repeatedly molesting a teen-age girl 20 y...

LOS ANGELES - Leaders of the Los Angeles legal services community gathered Wednesday night to celebrate the career of David La...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran municipal attorney Jayne Williams has been hired as city attorney for San Leandro, replacing fellow M...

LOS ANGELES - Chief Justice Ronald M. George on Thursday assigned Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle to preside over...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley said Thursday that his office is not considering criminal charges against the Tre...

BAKERSFIELD -The "abuse excuse" has been popularized in the past decade in dozens of cases of spouses and children who have su...

SACRAMENTO - Each year, millions of consumers go into the Internet, agree to respect copyrights in licensing agreements, and ...

SAN FRANCISCO -A federal judge, questioning the integrity of the Bush administration's 2002 decision to loosen the definition...

LOS ANGELES - Just in time for the April 15 tax deadline, Justice Department officials Thursday filed a civil complaint to sto...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley warned Thursday that, if the county cuts his budget, he could be forced to make s...

LOS ANGELES - James Bostwick, a San Francisco plaintiffs' attorney, will be inducted as president of the International Academy...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar's employees union has accepted a compromise contract offer for 2003-04, ending months of tense neg...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously reversed the death sentence of a member of the notorious Eigh...

LOS ANGELES - The ballerinas shuddered as they stepped from the cool night into the warmth and humidity of Anna Cheselka Dance...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyer William Shernoff has been busy videotaping depositions of his elderly clients, as litigation over Holocau...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - In employment cases, a plaintiff's prayer for relief often includes bo...

Forum Column - By Richard Lessner - When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review Lawrence v. Texas , pro-family conserv...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By John Kappos and John Heal - A recent decision from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

LOS ANGELES - Originally slated for this week, jury selection in the long-pending case between Dickson, Carlson & Campillo...

LOS ANGELES - Merger discussions between San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps and Seattle's Preston Gates & E...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the latest defeat for San Francisco's tenants-rights ordinances, a judge has tossed out a measure designed...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday appointed Yolo County Superior Court Executive Officer Kathleen M. White to serve...

OAKLAND - The team chosen to monitor Oakland's compliance with a recent police-reform settlement got its first taste this wee...

SACRAMENTO - The state's budget crisis and a growing labor force necessitate beefing up civil penalties for labor law violati...