LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Appointments Wednesday confirmed three justices to state appellate courts in Southern...

SAN JOSE - William B. Stewart III has almost everything a dissident challenger needs to run against Santa Clara County Distric...

LOS ANGELES - Whittier Law School's new dean hasn't had much time to write poetry or work out with his son since he moved here...

Franchise agreements frequently provide that the franchisor has unlimited discretion with regard to a variety of decisions, su...

As the legal job market continues its retreat from the boom-time hiring of 1999 and 2000, the victims of law firm and in-house...

This year, a new round of deaths and injuries associated with binge drinking is likely to occur at colleges and universities t...

Judges often are asked to name their judicial role models. This has led me to consider what figures from our past could be us...

The despicable attacks on Sept. 11 in New York and Washington have underscored the importance of international cooperation in ...

Litigator Profile It was a senior partner's lack of knowledge and expertise in construction litigation that nudged Thomas Mill...

The vertically integrated media conglomerate is fertile ground for litigation because of the appearance of impropriety and act...

Land dedicated to Palestine can thrive and develop, just as Israel became verdant as funds were generated to irrigate. Through...

Even in Los Angeles, where the earth below the city is moving constantly, homeowners don't expect the floors of their homes to...

The defense attorney didn't want to risk offending the jury by calling the plaintiff, a respected physician, a liar. ...

SAN JOSE - Judge Hugh "Rocky" Mullin III does not suffer fools gladly. Mullin, 59, is the presiding criminal judge in Santa Cl...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo on Tuesday recommended the repeal of two city ordinances that restrict billboard ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A bid filed earlier this month with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court by one of the state's best-known utility activis...

RIVERSIDE - Retired Riverside Judge William H. Sullivan - whose handling of conservatorship cases while a probate judge is und...

BAKERSFIELD - Around the town where he practiced law for more than 30 years, Michael L. Sprague kept his life outside the prof...

LOS ANGELES - A former Beverly Hills personal injury attorney, caught trying to bring a loaded gun into the Woodland Hills ban...

In Conservatorship of Levitt and Conservatorship of Page, 2001 Cal.App.LEXIS 1170 (Cal. App. Oct. 31, 2001), the...

Will press independence become the next casualty in the war against terrorism? If the Bush Administration's penchant for using...

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday dedicated the headquarters building of the Department of Justice in memory of Attorney ...

RIVERSIDE - A complex murder case involving methamphetamine manufacturing could be headed to a retrial now that a judge has ru...

SAN FRANCISCO - As Marin County prosecutors continued to deliberate Monday whether to file charges against a San Francisco pro...

LOS ANGELES - Nearly 57 percent of the 7,618 people who took the California Bar Exam in July passed, meaning the state soon co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Partners won't be immune from the nation's recession, law firm consultants predict. Just as associates have be...

LOS ANGELES - Mark P. Robinson Sr., whose 51-year legal career left a legacy of service to his profession and to California, h...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the 1930s, a trembling, fledgling journalist from Yale University had the temerity to visit Supreme Court J...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Debra Yang has emerged as the front-runner for the U.S. attorney post in Los An...

SAN FRANCISCO - Neil Eisenberg, the public power advocate who finished last in a field of four candidates for San Francisco ci...