Business partners must trust each other in order to work together for their mutual benefit. A recent $1.2 million bench decisi...
The role of the expert witness in civil litigation is changing. The question is whether advocates will be prepared for the cha...
LOS ANGELES - Law firms around the country shut down Tuesday as people mourned their losses and counted their blessings follow...
LOS ANGELES - Barbara K. Olson, wife of U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson and a well-known lawyer in her own right, die...
WASHINGTON - I saw the face of terror for the first time in my life today, and it was from my car on Washington Boulevard in A...
SAN FRANCISCO - The horrific, four-pronged attack by terrorists on the nation's governmental and commercial institutions struc...
SAN FRANCISCO - A groundbreaking local ordinance, requiring businesses to offer domestic partner benefits to unmarried workers...
SAN FRANCISCO - Justice in San Francisco was temporarily suspended Tuesday. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the E...
LOS ANGELES - Security concerns in the wake of the largest terrorist attack in U.S. history could trigger retaliatory attacks ...
LOS ANGELES - The terrorist acts that rocked the country's economic and political centers Tuesday set the stage for unpreceden...
LOS ANGELES - Downtown Los Angeles became a ghost town Tuesday morning, a sign that the world we thought we knew is gone forev...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the wake of the nation's worst terrorist assault, most California law firms simply closed their doors Tuesd...
SAN FRANCISCO - The jolt of Tuesday's catastrophic news spun Jon B. Eisenberg's mind to the aftermath of the 1963 Kennedy assa...
SANTA ANA - Re/Max, a consumer financing company in Orange County, dupes its customers with false advertising and inadequate d...
Dear Anne: I am the marketing partner at my firm. Recently, my colleagues have been suggesting that spending money on marketin...
The U.S. government's walkout at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intoleranc...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Who Had Two Heart Transplants Dies
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - Retired Riverside Superior Court Judge Jerome E. Stevenson, who sat in Indio and traveled on assignment for two decade...
LOS ANGELES - Corporate attorney Craig Andrews has joined the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins, a move that industry a...
As human cloning technology develops, so does the debate on whether it should continue or be banned. While scientists, medical...
LOS ANGELES - Dallas' Akin, Gump, Straus, Hauer & Feld is nursing its wounds after the chairman of its West Coast health c...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would grant new legal rights to registered domestic partners, including the ability to sue for wrongf...
SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission adopted regulations Monday allowing incumbent legislators to raise ...
SAN FRANCISCO - There were no questions from the bench Monday about bullying of school kids, but Los Angeles power firm O'Melv...
ANAHEIM - Old wounds inflicted by the State Bar's financial crisis showed up again last week during the bar's annual meeting a...
Defense attorneys say they plan to grill Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dan T. Oki tonight on the effects they fear the cour...
WASHINGTON - "The hard fact is that sometimes we must make decisions we do not like. We make them because they are right, righ...
Government
Court Defies Judicial-Fruitcake Factor, OKs Prisoner's Right to Reproduce
By Garry Abrams
Onanism. Artificial insemination. Life in prison. Last week's unprecedented 2-1 decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judicial panel will decide today whether to continue tracking Internet sites visited by federal cour...
SAN FRANCISCO - With clients like these, who needs opposing counsel? In 1999, the Walnut Creek firm of Bowles & Verna secu...