YES. The plaintiffs' bar is alleging Business & Professions Code Section 17200 claims with more frequency and in a wider r...

Neutrals aren't always so neutral. Mediators can't help but bring their biases to the table. At least, that's how Robert Ballo...

SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed two veteran members of the San Diego legal community to the Superior Court, filling ...

SANTA ANA - A word processing clerk who worked for a prominent Orange County law firm for 10 years has sued her former employe...

LOS ANGELES - Like other foster kids, Leo Aguilar and Robert Zubia, now 20, grew up in the belly of an impersonal, rigid syste...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court struggled mightily Tuesday with whether tenants can be banned from distributing lea...

By For the second time in a week, bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali has rebuffed efforts by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to have...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in a week, bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali has rebuffed efforts by Pacific Gas and Electri...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state of Idaho can prosecute FBI marksman Lon T. Horiuchi for involuntary manslaughter in the 1992 shootin...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a move Baker & McKenzie managers say aids a firmwide push to refocus on its traditional specialties, th...

As a 16-year-city prosecutor, Jim Hahn has compiled hands-on public safety experience. As a college student, Jim Hahn voluntee...

By Linda Bulmash Confidence is the ability to project a positive self-view to the public and to make others comfortable in yo...

Andrew Jackson once thundered, "[Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it." Substitute Calif...

We have all seen Wild West saloon scraps in cowboy movies. An argument begins over a card game, and the feathers hit the fan w...

California plaintiffs' counsel, in complaints filed on behalf of their clients, often allege multiple theories of recovery tha...

Today, Los Angeles voters will pick their new mayor and city attorney, critical decisions that will shape the future and direc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sen. Dianne Feinstein recently dove headlong into California's seemingly intractable water debate with a legis...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to vastly increase the number of convicts required to provide DNA samples to the state cleared the Ass...

SANTA ANA - Closing arguments got under way Monday in the third trial of Li-Yun "Lisa" Peng, a Taiwanese national accused of m...

SACRAMENTO - The state Senate passed a bill Monday that would require financial institutions to get a customer's written conse...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley got high praise Monday from odd bedfellows - an outspoken criminal defense attorn...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a decision that could invalidate taxes adopted in 150 cities across the state in the early-to-mid 1990s, th...

By Leslie A. Gordon Special to DJC Bankruptcy With 200 hours of continued rolling blackouts expected this summer, and costs t...

LOS ANGELES - The life of a newspaper columnist isn't always a bed of roses. For instance, last week there was the puzzling, e...

SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty-two years ago, the California Supreme Court ruled that privately-owned shopping centers have become the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Police officers in San Francisco's narcotics division often visit criminal defendants and badmouth their attor...

WASHINGTON - Handing a major victory to sexual-harassment and other job-discrimination victims, the Supreme Court on Monday ru...

Among actions announced Monday by the justices were:

It remains to be seen whether 2000 will mark the end of the tech boom - along with rainmaker inflation. One thing we know for ...

Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich plans to let its venture capital and investment banking lawyers get out of the general busine...