DENVER - A small Colorado video rental company and an Idaho attorney sued 16 well-known Hollywood directors Thursday in an eff...

Forum Column - By Christopher Blake - In Re Jayson T., 97 Cal.App.4th 75 (2002), lays bare an ugly secret of the depend...

LOS ANGELES - Lyon & Lyon attorneys continue to scatter to full-service firms in anticipation of the intellectual property...

LOS ANGELES - Vlada Toulousheva and Evgenia Tsimbal had no intention of becoming prostitutes when they left their native Russi...

SAN FRANCISCO - One month after the World Trade Center towers fell, a U.S. Navy admiral appeared before a congressional commit...

LOS ANGELES - How does a budding young lawyer measure up to the life of a legend when that legend is his father and they share...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Taber has been chosen to receive the Rose Bird Memorial...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers faced plenty of opposition Wednesday to a bill that would curb corporations' use of the state's ant...

Column by Garry Abrams - The federal judiciary has been acting decidedly feisty over the Bush administration's war on terroris...

LOS ANGELES - He promised a vision of a world made better through for-profit charity, personal transformation and allowing peo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday quietly ended decades of voluntary desegregation programs in Califor...

SAN DIEGO - A niece of David A. Westerfield testified Wednesday that, when she was 7 years old, her uncle came into the darken...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two years after they teamed together to win a record-setting race discrimination verdict against the makers of...

SANTA BARBARA - In a case that mixed sex and a lawyer-client relationship, an arbitrator has ruled that wealthy newspaper publ...

Focus Column - By Michael J. Kump - In a recent thought-provoking article concerning the limits of Business and Professions Co...

LOS ANGELES - An AIDS-stricken man who was zapped with a stun belt during his three-strikes trial should have his sentence red...

Focus Column - By Barry J. Nadell - Most employers in California have heard about AB655, a bill authored by Assemblyman Roderi...

Dicta Column - By Alexander Polsky - Attorneys experienced in arbitration understand that one of the most valuable benefits of...

Forum Column - By Robert W. Hahn - Should the California Legislature prohibit the purchase of commercial software by state age...

LOS ANGELES - As intellectual property boutique Lyon & Lyon plans to close its doors at the end of the week, the firm's Lo...

LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney will be sentenced Oct. 24 after pleading guilty to embezzling $138,000 from the estate of on...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court will lay off 150 newly hired clerical employees and student workers by the end of...

SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly two years of bitter counter-charges and an adverse U.S. Supreme ruling, the state Commission on J...

SACRAMENTO - California's trial lawyers have agreed to limits on construction defect suits in exchange for restoring a consume...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal has adopted ethics rules for arbitrators participating in the court's appella...

SANTA ANA - The controversy over the use of juvenile drug informants deepened, with the cities of Brea and Yorba Linda agreein...

LOS ANGELES - An elderly man convicted of exposing himself in a park dodged a three-strikes 26-years-to-life sentence Monday w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis announced Tuesday he has appointed Walnut Creek trial lawyer Barry Baskin to the Contra Costa ...

SAN DIEGO - The same man who a jury says kidnapped and murdered a 7-year-old girl also has been described as a cordial neighbo...

SAN DIEGO - The judge in the trial of David A. Westerfield, convicted last week of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Daniell...