If you handle your reduction in force correctly, you can turn your former employees into your best salespeople. ...
LOS ANGELES - An African-American switchboard operator has sued the Antelope Valley School District, saying she was subjected ...
Culture is a very complex and powerful factor in determining the outcome of many trials. The cultural composition of the jury ...
LOS ANGELES - A special-education teacher who smothered a rabbit in a plastic bag in front of his pupils was acquitted Tuesday...
The California Supreme Court, in Merrill v. Navegar Inc ., has insulated from liability a gun manufacturer that sold wh...
Determining whether employees are exempt from certain wage-and-hour laws is not easy. Determining when an employer can dock an...
LOS ANGELES - One is the loneliest number, just ask James Loss. He is the last Riordan & McKinzie partner remaining in Ora...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors will ask the state Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's ruling that grand juries cannot indict m...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A woman charged with attempted murder for shutting off a dying cancer patient's respirator will face additi...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has picked up two new partners, an antitrust litigator and a labor an...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that revamps the process for resolving construction defect disputes has cleared a key legislative committe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie, a Seattle firm with aspirations for prominence in the Silicon Valley, has landed another intelle...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Medi-Cal patients can sue health care provider...
LOS ANGELES - In the first conviction since the Los Angeles County district attorney reactivated a program that dispatches pro...
Intellectual Property
Tactics of the 'Sunrise Squatters' Creating Aggravation
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The "sunrise period" designed to give trademark owners a chance to register their names first in the newly int...
Criminal
Judge Criticizes DA for Talking Privately With Dismissed Juror
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Wednesday sharply criticized a prosecutor who followed a dismissed juror out of the Roybal Feder...
LOS ANGELES - A pending lawsuit pitting 139 female attorneys against the county got a boost this week from a federal report th...
SAN FRANCISCO - An unusual agreement that begins to break a logjam in adding new plants and animals to the nation's catalog of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Parents can sue California teachers if they refuse to instruct students only in English in violation of the st...
SAN FRANCISCO - When two key witnesses in a capital murder case recant their testimony years after the trial, the search for t...
On my desk in chambers are two hopeful documents. One is a recent book by a Boston lawyer named Ronald B. Shwartz. Shwartz had...
Q: To win cases, must counsel use visual aids or graphics? A: "Show, don't tell" is the cardinal rule when it comes to maintai...
LOS ANGELES - A former Intel Corp. employee pleaded guilty to insider trading for using information he learned while working a...
Neutral L. Therese White, former big-company accountant, is soft-spoken and articulate. A regular churchgoer, she often conduc...
Cathay Bank learned the hard way recently not to underestimate Curtis Jung. In the 40-year-old attorney's opinion, bank offici...
Developed over centuries, the common-law doctrine of "sovereign immunity" provided that "you can't sue the king." This basic d...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles will appeal a federal judge's order barring enforcement of an anti-panhandling ordinance...
These questions and answers regarding developments in employment law in 2001 were presented at the SHRM 2001 annual conference...
LOS ANGELES - A Monterey Park attorney and his female co-defendant pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court to...