SANTA BARBARA - In the space of two years, Gregory J. Parker went from a small-town real estate and finance attorney to an exe...

SACRAMENTO - The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday easily defeated an attempt by tort reformers to cap punitive damage a...

A simple remedy to the physical aspects of courtroom stress can be found in stretching exercises, which relieve tension and re...

Once you figure out why prior settlement attempts failed, you will be able to focus on avoiding past mistakes in the upcoming ...

SAN DIEGO - After two hours of deliberation, a San Diego Superior Court jury late Monday acquitted Cincinnati Bengals quarterb...

One of the many curious things one observes at The Firm is that while some lawyers slave away and devote themselves to the law...

SAN FRANCISCO - The quiet consent that the Board of Supervisors gave Monday to a $79 million settlement of a lawsuit challengi...

If you live in California, it would be hard to miss the copious evidence revealing that there are numerous public schools in C...

LOS ANGELES - In his final budget proposal, Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan boosts the amount of money set aside for emer...

Courts apply jurisdictional principles to international Web site defendants with concern for the additional burden on such def...

LOS ANGELES - Three Los Angeles-area schoolchildren have been selected as the Southern California winners of the fifth annual...

To hear California's politicians tell it, heartless power generators are the cause of the high price of West Coast electricity...

Motions in limine are extremely effective tools for trial advocacy and time management. When properly utilized, they permit mo...

LOS ANGELES - Andrew Herbert Benedict Landay, president of the Lawyers Club of Los Angeles and an arbitrator with the Los Ange...

For a half-century, the American Bar Association has been asked by every administration, Republican and Democratic alike, to e...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who allegedly sent threatening e-mail messages to opposing counsel in an egg price-fixing case he file...

LOS ANGELES - In contrast to the city of Los Angeles' recent rosy fiscal forecast, Los Angeles County, burdened with soaring e...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys in the explosive parole case of convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz squabbled Monday over whether al...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies did nothing to prevent planned attacks by Latino inmates on African-Americ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After two years of courting potential merger partners, San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen is ...

LOS ANGELES - Help Wanted: Natural gas companies and electric utilities embroiled in class actions brought by pesky California...

SANTA ANA - Reversing the sex-crime conviction of a former vice principal who fathered two children with a student, an appeals...

Among actions announced Monday, April 23, 2001 by the justices were:

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, dissenting in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), predicted that there would be "...

Gary N. Stern has joined Gordon Edelstein Krepack Grant Felton & Goldstein, a 13-attorney personal injury and employment t...

Sharon Kinsey has been called many things, some of them nice, some of them not so nice. But whatever friends and detractors sa...

James Lopes, a partner of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, has been inducted as a Fellow to the American Colle...

Los Angeles recruiter Larry Watanabe says Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery aims to build the finest intellectual property ...

Convicted lawyer John J. Reiner was on the phone. It must have been a tough call to make. "I don't want you to feel badly beca...

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro, which is known for its strong hospitality practice, will host its 11th annual hotel confe...