LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has affirmed a lower court's order making temporary public employees eligible to enroll ...

Local governments should establish a habit of developing a detailed record in administrative actions involving religious insti...

A century ago, virtually every new attorney apprenticed before practicing law. This is not the case today. Consequently, most ...

Attention California lawyers: In South Florida's new economy, true value still sells. In South Florida, including Palm Beach, ...

LOS ANGELES - Legal employers have failed to help lawyers strike a balance in their personal and professional lives, according...

The events of Sept. 11 have shocked businesses into an awareness of the need to be prepared for disasters. While protecting hu...

SACRAMENTO - Investing time and money in a political campaign is risky. The biggest losers, of course, are the candidates who ...

Insureds who have suffered a drop in business due to the terrorist attacks may be entitled to substantial protection from busi...

SAN JOSE - A crackdown on the unauthorized practice of law has resulted in felony criminal conspiracy pleas by the owner and a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran Sonoma County prosecutor has agreed to drop her civil suit against the county in exchange for $123,3...

For the past several years, Centurion Consulting Group has conducted a survey at the California State Bar annual meeting on ho...

LOS ANGELES - Mark H. Jones, a partner with the West Los Angeles firm Ruben & Jones and an avid rock climber, has died. Jo...

The federal investigation into Death Row Records may have begun twitching back to life over the last few days. Little birdies ...

LOS ANGELES - Last week, between wrapping up cases and packing boxes, U.S. District Judge Carlos R. Moreno of Los Angeles was ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to examine the use of binding arbitration to resolve attorney-cl...

SAN DIEGO - A private investigator accused in the 1998 torture and murder in Mexico of his boss pleaded guilty Wednesday to on...

OAKLAND - A judge has ordered Oakland, Alameda County and the Oakland Coliseum to pay the Oakland Raiders $84,000 in sanctions...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wartnick, Chaber, Harowitz & Tigerman, one of the Bay Area's leading product liability litigation firms, w...

LOS ANGELES - To hear some members of the defense bar talk, class actions that seek unpaid overtime from employers represent a...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - After finishing his prison term for rape in 1996, Ronald Rogers didn't go free. Instead, prosecutors convinc...

The first thing Brentwood attorney Joseph P. Wohrle wants visitors to know about his practice is that his assistant, Ignacio "...

Advocates of the war on drugs have used the recent terrorist catastrophe to urge expansion of the drug war. But as we embark o...

Over the past year, the Food and Drug Administration and the Office of Human Research Protections of the Department of Health ...

Southern California neutral Bruce W. Dodds admits he's not as empathetic as some other mediators might be in certain situation...

VIEWPOINT: On some days, trial lawyers feel like they can conquer the world, but on others, they feel like the world is conque...

VIEWPOINT: Construction-defect cases are rife with unsympathetic clients: the contractor who builds a shoddy apartment complex...

Is giving Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants face time on American television news broadcasts rendering aid and comfort to th...

Cutting clients' losses by settling lawsuits during unproductive discovery is sometimes a good strategy. It could protect them...

OAKLAND - An Oakland judge has ruled that two California men on the verge of death may proceed with product liability suits ag...

LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge Tuesday denied bail to a former Beverly Hills attorney, who was arrested Friday for t...