More and more clients and their lawyers choose electronic mail as their method of communication. It's fast and convenient, but...

Most discrimination cases are based on the disparate treatment theory, meaning that the plaintiff claims to have been treated ...

LOS ANGELES - The energy squeeze that wreaked havoc in Northern California in recent months packed a less powerful punch in So...

INDIO - A jury has recommended a death sentence for a man whose burglary-murder conviction depended in part on videotaped test...

For journalists working in California, there are few events as traumatic as the receipt of a subpoena in a criminal case. The ...

LOS ANGELES - Former clients have sued Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, accusing the New York-based firm of a catalog of mis...

VICTORVILLE - Daniel Valdivia was two days shy of his eleventh birthday when he was struck and killed by a freight train in He...

LOS ANGELES - Rebecca Avila, the leader of a campaign-finance-research project at the University of Southern California, has j...

SACRAMENTO - After a wait of more than two years, Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday made his first two appointments of public members...

SACRAMENTO - The unification of superior and municipal courts has vastly improved the state judicial system and its public ser...

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino officials have reinstated a city law that prevents the City Council from hiring outside lawyer...

SAN JOSE - Employees who are leaving out-of-state companies to take jobs in California are getting more aggressive - and succe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sharply curtailing an antitrust case by 27 independent booksellers, a federal judge has ruled that the group c...

SEATTLE - Some law-oriented "Survivor" fans may have noticed an eerie resemblance between the wildly popular CBS reality show ...

LOS ANGELES - The best years are the first years, if you're on television. Continuing the nation's obsession with all things l...

LOS ANGELES - A California appellate court handed Warner Bros. studios a stunning victory Tuesday in its long-running, high-pr...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Tuesday resolved an important intellectual-property issue with a decidedly pro-competition ruli...

The justices Tuesday, March 20, 2001 announced the following actions:

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge moved Monday to block one of the Clinton administration's final, controversial environmental p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Timothy Tosta, the chairman of the real-state and land-use group at the Bay Area's Baker & McKenzie office...

For the past couple of centuries, we have acknowledged childhood as a distinct period in a person's life and have treated chil...

The degree to which a takings claim is impeded because the owner obtained title after a regulation became effective is one iss...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Monterey attorney's insurer has agreed to pay $910,000 to a Seattle woman to settle her claim that he cost h...

This month's topic is the poor relation of motion practice: the motion to reconsider. These motions are on my mind because I'm...

LOS ANGELES - A police dog named Reilly has failed to pin an arson rap on rap performer Nate Dogg. Los Angeles criminal defens...

LOS ANGELES - Damian Monroe "Football" Williams, who gained notoriety as the man who beat trucker Reginald Denny at the outset...

LOS ANGELES - A dozen employees of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services have filed a lawsuit sayi...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has reinstated a lawsuit pitting a Northridge apartment building owner against Allstate ...

LOS ANGELES - Kimberly A. Dunne has left her post as the chief of the public corruption and government fraud section of the U....

SAN FRANCISCO - Buoyed by last year's record profits and not dissuaded by the current economic downturn, two large out-of-town...