LOS ANGELES - It took 12 years and two trials, but Beverly Hills businessman and attorney Leonard Ross has won a jury verdict ...

With the recent upheaval in the investment markets and many workers feeling a little less wealthy because of shrinking portfol...

There is a way to have fun with - and capitalize on - stupidity, and Wendy Northcutt has found out how. The 37-year-old former...

One might think that a public entity - particularly one with the power to tax - would be an ideal deep-pocket judgment debtor....

There is good reason always to inquire whether the government has, in fact, approved of the offer. ...

A decision by the European Patent Office has given a boost to the clinical trial program of a California-based drug company, e...

The Ozzie and Harriet days are over. Filing a joint tax return can destroy your life. While President George W. Bush's tax pro...

Law firms without networks can't allow associates to share updated versions of computer programs. ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Burke Williams & Sorensen has added four partners and one associate to its public-law practice ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Herbert "Wes" Walker has announced he will retire from the 1st District Court of Appeal immediately, c...

The irony of "First Years," which premiered March 19 on NBC, is that, given its 9 p.m. time slot, many real first-year associa...

SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Louise Renne said Thursday that plans by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to amend ...

SAN DIEGO - Mark O. Hiepler, an Oxnard lawyer, has received the Special Advocacy Award from Consumer Attorneys of San Diego fo...

LOS ANGELES - Saying that victims of hate crimes whose cases are heard in outlying courts deserve the same focused attention b...

LOS ANGELES - A Chevron employee, apparently upset that he was passed over for a promotion given to a minority worker, threate...

SAN DIEGO - A second-year Thomas Jefferson School of Law student was the top competitor in oral advocacy from Southern Califor...

SAN FRANCISCO - The arraignment of lawyers Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel in the dog-mauling death of a San Francisco woman ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cities must comply with the state's basic environmental law - a requirement that may require the preparation o...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has selected five new magistrate judges. Four of ...

Technology companies Proxim Inc. and Netopia Inc. have called off their merger agreement, but their lawyers say the two plan t...

LOS ANGELES - While Oscar De La Hoya bloodied his opponent in a Las Vegas boxing ring last Saturday night, his attorneys were ...

During the last decade, several widely publicized employment-discrimination lawsuits have alerted employers to the cold, hard ...

Gilman Louie is on a mission to bring the world's top intelligence agency out of the shadows and into the digital age. There i...

The state of Florida's continued reliance on obsolete election technology and equipment was like the belief that an iceberg co...

Companies that are the targets of anonymous criticism on the Internet are fighting back - in court. One message board particip...

BARSTOW - The pit bull that mauled and killed a Newberry Springs boy last year was so vicious that its caretaker often had to ...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has ruled a talent agent waited too long to sue a record company for allegedly conspirin...

LOS ANGELES - The Internet is like an orange grove in Hemet. After the trees finally bear fruit, freeloaders come along and st...

NEWPORT BEACH - Orange County prosecutors want a newspaper reporter to testify about his interview with an Anaheim woman charg...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday strongly indicated it will rule that organizations providing marijuana to seriousl...