Marc Van Der Hout figured he'd go into labor law or criminal defense after he graduated from Golden Gate University School of ...

Forum Column - By Heidi Mandanis Schooner - There now seems little doubt that Enron's executive suite harbored thieves. As She...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has affirmed a lower court judgment that San Diego County unlawfully retaliated against a pre...

Environmental Law Practitioner Column - By William D. Wick - Congress surprised just about everyone by amending the Superfund ...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and John S. West - All of the pundits seem to agree that our economy is in recession. Whenever...

RIVERSIDE - A jury has awarded a group of Corona doctors $3 million after a judge found that the health maintenance organizati...

LOS ANGELES - Citing Shakespeare, the Bible and Mick Jagger, civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman denounced the Bush administr...

LOS ANGELES - Two county supervisors plan to introduce an unusual motion at Tuesday's board meeting ordering the county's atto...

LOS ANGELES - In a stunning decision that legal experts said is unprecedented in the state, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge...

WASHINGTON - Last summer, life was looking amazingly bright for Theodore B. (Ted) Olson. The veteran litigator from Los Angele...

LOS ANGELES - A convicted child molester may go free after an appeals court reversed his conviction, finding that a Los Angele...

Forum Column - By Barbara Allen Babcock - Today, the Los Angeles criminal courts building will be christened The Clara Shortri...

Forum Column - By Alex Ricciardulli - Downtown Los Angeles' Criminal Courts Building will be officially renamed today after Cl...

Forum Column - By John Sperling - Sunday, during the most exciting Super Bowl in history, hundreds of millions of people aroun...

Forum Column - By Marc Levin - A controversial Super Bowl ad linking drug abuse and terrorism has served as a reminder that ap...

Dicta Column - By Richard J. Simmons - Law firms should consider using arbitration agreements as a means to resolve employee d...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - At some point in your career, you may consider switching practice areas. Some att...

LOS ANGELES - Members of the U.S. Supreme Court are a collegial bunch despite bitter philosophical differences, Justice Ruth B...

LOS ANGELES -The Belmont Learning Center can be completed safely, soon and at a reasonable cost by either of the two partnersh...

LOS ANGELES -A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $13.2 million Thursday to a woman who suffered brain damage after being...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has approved a partial settlement of a two-year civil rights class action tha...

LOS ANGELES - He's been described as a human dynamo, a one-man army, a man of action who never sleeps and manages to be in fou...

LOS ANGELES - With the Winter Olympics opening tonight in Salt Lake City, teen-age ice skater Sasha Cohen already has a lawyer...

Dicta Column - By Tim Hallahan - The direct examination of your witnesses is usually the most crucial part of your case. Juror...

LOS ANGELES - Larry Sonsini, the unofficial king of Silicon Valley, reigned supreme among practicing attorneys on Forbes Magaz...

Intellectual Property Practitioner Column - By Michael J. Lawrence - When the Federal Trademark Dilution Act took effect in 19...

Dicta Column - By Bill Winter - It has been said the five most dangerous words in the English language are, "There oughta be a...

Dicta Column - By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. - Is there anything more American than entitlements? If you say "apple pie," just con...

Tort Law Practitioner Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - The question of causation in any tort case is typically one of fact fo...

Focus Column - By Emily Longfellow - On Jan. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Tahoe-Sierra Pres...