SAN FRANCISCO - Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and upheld U.S. District Jud...

LOS ANGELES - A direct-mail duel to woo a lead plaintiff in a class action may be canceled by a state appeals court worried th...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed three women and six men to replace nine retired Superior Court judges in San Diego...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan said Friday the next man to head the city should hold Los Angeles Police De...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group of the Bay Area's most prominent lawyers will mount the stage tonight in a benefit performance celebra...

LOS ANGELES - Behind his back, John Gordon's colleagues in the U.S. attorney's office call him "Spock" because his thinking is...

LOS ANGELES - The federal judge overseeing the Rampart civil litigation ruled Friday that much of the city's top brass can be ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Punitive damage awards tend to run far higher in four types of litigation - product liability, insurance bad f...

LOS ANGELES - A former high-school band director and Jehovah's Witness has sued the Los Angeles Unified School District for re...

While the publicity regarding these dogs is reaching new levels, the courts' involvement in such cases reaches back over 25 ye...

The justices this week will hear these cases:

California's Department of Managed Health Care, part of an effort to reform managed care, is nearly a year old, but even at th...

Of the many legal documents that cross my desk every day, my favorite by far has to be the nondisclosure agreement. It may arr...

The open-source community finds itself in a precarious position. On one hand, developers who share the source code for their s...

LOS ANGELES - Like fireflies to a light, except perhaps in reverse, California's lawyers have found their next full-employment...

In the 1998 action thriller, "Enemy of the State," actor Will Smith was hunted down by Washington bureaucrats who wanted a hig...

Although police counsel people never to chase after criminals, sometimes one can catch a thief. Just before 2 p.m. on May 17, ...

Although there is more tolerance for career moves these days, prospective employers remain wary of candidates who move too oft...

LOS ANGELES - The American Jewish Committee presented Latham & Watkins partner Barry Sanders with its Learned Hand Award o...

Recent decisions by the U.S. and California Supreme Courts mark a trend to eliminate jury trials in employment disputes. The d...

The "fair use" doctrine in copyright law allows the copying of creative works without the permission of the author for limited...

The landowner could not show that he had a vested right to foliage of a certain height or to a fixed amount of utility charges...

Representing a client in an Internal Revenue Service audit can be a stressful experience because an attorney must often manag...

Medical researchers have launched a new research studying a device that they hope will improve the image of silicone implants....

LOS ANGELES - Milo V. Olson, a Los Angeles civil trial attorney who once served as special assistant to the U.S. attorney gene...

SEAL BEACH - DNA has linked a Florida inmate to the 1980 sex assault and killing of a 70-year-old Seal Beach woman, authoritie...

SANTA ANA - A senior Orange County deputy public defender is questioning why the district attorney's office tipped off a count...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Rejecting a college's effort to trademark its nickname, a judge has allowed a store to continue selling unli...

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Richard J. Riordan today will unveil a nearly $5 billion budget that not only adds funding to the Police D...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas E. Workman Jr., a former partner with Pillsbury Winthrop, died of lung cancer Wednesday at his South Pasa...