Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - It's been another year of significant developments in al...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Justice John E. Benson of the 1st District Court of Appeal has died following a lingering illness. Ben...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Tuesday to let stockholders sue for securities fraud on the g...

SAN FRANCISCO - Edsell "Chip" Eady Jr., the former head of Foley & Lardner's Northern California public finance group, joi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Joseph Remcho argued twice before the California Supreme Court over redistricting issues and succeeded both t...

LOS ANGELES - Faced with securities firms' rejection of California's tough new disclosure rules for arbitrators, disgruntled ...

Column By Garry Abrams - It's official. Los Angeles is a hellhole. A judicial hellhole, to be exact. That's the opinion of the...

VENTURA - Wealthy date-rape suspect Andrew Luster failed to show up in court for his trial Monday, forcing a judge to declare ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge backed off holding the city of Los Angeles in contempt Monday after a city official pledged that...

LOS ANGELES - African-Americans and Hispanics driving or walking in the city of Los Angeles are far more likely than whites to...

LOS ANGELES - In the final weeks of 2002, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and some of his top command staff held meet...

Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - Looking back on 2002, perhaps the most interesting of the large number of...

Forum Column - By Rob DeKoven - As the nation's 15,000 school districts move into 2003, the need to re-examine how they deal w...

RIVERSIDE - Robert M. Holstein Jr., a prominent Riverside personal injury lawyer and former priest whose liberal activism onc...

LOS ANGELES - The owner of an Anaheim strip club who fought for years to open an adult business can pursue a claim against the...

As the messy resignation of former Boalt Hall School of Law dean John Dwyer continues to unravel, lawyers at the University of...

After a 16-year judicial career, Superior Court Judge Thomas Ashworth III stepped down from the bench Dec. 30. He plans to pur...

Los Angeles resident Warren Eallonardo is a film buff with a library of 150 digital videodiscs at his home. "I've loved movies...

In an industry more accustomed to burnout and high turnover than longevity, Carl Whitaker was a true survivor. For 10 years, h...

One cornerstone of courtroom success is preparation. Even with zealous preparation, the unexpected mishap is inevitable at tri...

Robert Levinson loves to talk about coins. He's an avid collector of medieval coins and has turned his passion into a career b...

Miller Brown & Dannis, a law firm that represents public schools and community college districts, has expanded with the o...

Hoping that Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton will be better positioned to serve his startup and middle-market clientel...

Anticipating the closing of San Diego County's court-ordered mediation program in a year, Judicate West opened a San Diego off...

Fourth-grader Heather Kirchhof walked up to the microphone in the front of a hotel banquet room in San Diego. Wearing jeans an...

"Smoking gun" evidence wasn't necessary for a Sacramento attorney to convince a jury last month to punish the recently termed-...

Cherokee Inc. recently acquired the trademark rights to several well-known brands in a bankruptcy auction, then turned around ...

Question and Answer - Q. Is there still a need for court-ordered mediation or can we simply rely on the marketplace to determi...

Menlo Park-based attorney staffing service The Affiliates has an interesting take on lawyer etiquette after a new survey it d...

Web portal Yahoo! Inc. of Sunnyvale has agreed to buy Inktomi Corp., a provider of search-engine software, for $235 million in...