If there was any doubt as to whether the plaintiff in an attorney malpractice case has a constitutional right to a jury trial,...

LOS ANGELES - Samuel Gorlick, Burbank's city attorney from 1961 to 1982, has died. Gorlick died at Providence St. Joseph's Med...

In a move that already has triggered a lot of controversy, the Bush administration reportedly will try to curb the ability of ...

The definition of meeting the basic needs of the working poor in California must be broadened. It often is assumed that if the...

LOS ANGELES - Former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson did not get the five-month postponement in her trial th...

INDIO - The prosecutor in Robert Downey Jr.'s Palm Springs drug case said Proposition 36 likely will save the actor from a ret...

WASHINGTON - Settling a major area of dispute between Native American tribes and non-Native American businesses, the Supreme C...

LOS ANGELES - Citing mistakes by the trial court that kept Latinos off the jury, the state Supreme Court overturned a death se...

A series of fraudulent items, and some encouraging court decisions, have convinced eBay to monitor its Internet auction list...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dead celebrities got a boost from the California Supreme Court on Monday in a ruling that makes it harder for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state announced Monday that it has agreed to pay more than $114 million to the federal government to settl...

LOS ANGELES - Stanford University law school Dean Kathleen Sullivan has been incommunicado in recent days. Her office says Sul...

LOS ANGELES - Two recent and apparently contradictory appellate rulings regarding the rights and liabilities of out-of-state l...

SAN FRANCISCO - Napster may have to give up the media limelight for a while as oral arguments in another closely-watched Inter...

LOS ANGELES - Sears, Roebuck and Co. and MemberWorks Inc. have agreed to pay a combined $2 million in civil penalties for what...

Among actions announced Monday, April 30, 2001 by the justices were:

LOS ANGELES - After 30 years in the business, film distributor Tom Bernard thought he had seen and heard it all. Of course, fo...

San Carlos' Natus Medical Inc. is going public in an initial offering valued at $172 million. Natus Medical develops tests tha...

San Francisco's Ferry Building Investors has acquired a ground lease in the city's historic Ferry Building and plans to renova...

Arter & Hadden litigator Kim West has taken on an interesting new role as chair of two of the firm's six California office...

The voice on the other end of the phone line was my editor, a perpetually cranky woman we'll call Cruella. She seemed to draw ...

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy is the most recent law firm to stake a claim in Silicon Valley. The 500-lawyer firm, which h...

Kim Dunn, former public corruption and fraud section chief for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, shifted into private...

A federal grand jury indicted Crosby Heafey Roach & May patent department head Mal Wittenberg for insider trading on April...

By 2002, 90 percent of employees will be covered by alternate dispute resolution programs, including binding arbitration. This...

Too many ignore the childhood precept of owning up and believe that the "adult thing" to do is to try to get away with paying ...

Elysie Marie Pahler was 15 when she was raped, tortured and murdered by three boys who say they were inspired by their favorit...

Wireless entertainment company Jamdat Mobile Inc. has received $10 million in second-round financing from Patricof & Compa...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council Friday voted to give $400,000 to a former Police Department officer who sued the de...

AirFiber Inc., a telecommunications equipment supplier, has received $50 million in third-round, equity financing. New York's ...