LOS ANGELES - J. George Gold remembers the days when practicing law was simpler. Lawyers had less paperwork, more deals closed...

Although bad news for some and good news for others, bankruptcy law is on the rise. With the steady decline in our economy, it...

Negotiations are multidimensional. Inexperienced negotiators, however, often focus primarily on the substantive matters, such ...

LOS ANGELES - The foster care system was intended to protect children from harmful home environments. But evidence is growing ...

LOS ANGELES - One week after allegations of plagiarism led to the firing of an Orange County law school dean, administrators h...

SAN DIEGO - A Berkeley couple has agreed to give some money to a British surrogate mother they hired and then reneged on after...

In the days following President George W. Bush's decision on stem-cell research, the media focused rather narrowly on the numb...

LOS ANGELES - Beginning Monday, Los Angeles Superior Court's Burbank and Glendale branches will convert to the "One Trial" jur...

There are certain things we, as people but mostly as attorneys, are told all our lives that we accept as absolute truths. We h...

That models' bodies were substituted for the actors' bodies was 'abundantly clear given that the vast majority of the featured...

Medical-malpractice litigation is complex, time-consuming and expensive. When two or more defendants are potentially responsib...

SAN FRANCISCO - Grateful Dead Productions lost an important round Thursday in its long legal fight for possession of five of J...

SAN BERNARDINO - Unearthing a new layer of alleged government corruption in San Bernardino County, federal authorities have ch...

SEATTLE - You can find a spouse online, and now you can get a divorce online, too. For $199 and 20 minutes at a keyboard, matr...

LOS ANGELES - These are stories unsuitable for children. Yet they are children's stories. "I'm going home," a boy said as he t...

LOS ANGELES - Not surprisingly, spirits are low at Palo Alto's Cooley Godward after the firm's announcement of massive layoffs...

SAN FRANCISCO - Employees facing continuous discrimination or harassment over disabilities will have a stronger hand in litiga...

LOS ANGELES - Foster children seeking justice for abuse or injuries suffered in Los Angeles County's protective system must na...

LOS ANGELES - Respected career prosecutor Stephen Kay, who has successfully prosecuted several high-profile murder cases, will...

SAN FRANCISCO - The ax has finally fallen in the Silicon Valley. After months of rumors about bad times at the Valley's bigge...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has thrown out the murder conviction in a grisly Salinas triple slaying because police detecti...

LOS ANGELES - Foley & Lardner has opened a second office in the San Diego area to better serve the needs of its clients, t...

Requests for time off from work under the Family and Medical Leave Act (29 U.S.C. Section 2601 et seq.) raise several vexing i...

SAN DIEGO - After a decadelong battle over a mountaintop cross, a federal appellate court has upheld the legitimacy of a sale ...

The court also suggested that in certain circumstances, a promotion could constitute a reasonable accommodation under the stat...

The old adage about the relationship between lawyers and their secretaries being like a marriage is true. Unfortunately, stati...

The air, thankfully, is going out of the tires on the plaintiffs' bar's quest for legislation to eliminate legitimate confiden...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's refusal to grant a new trial for Hera, one of the attack dogs involved in the fatal mauling of a Pac...

In Catling v. Bowling , King's Bench, Easter Term, 26 George II, 96 E.R. 810; 1 Sayer 80 (1753), Chief Justice Sir Will...