Luce Forward argued that mandatory arbitration agreements can encompass claims for discrimination and that Duffield was wrongl...

Do you know what your duties as an attorney are? Every attorney takes an oath when he or she is sworn in upon admission to the...

SAN DIEGO - David Geerdes has been named managing shareholder of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's San Diego office. "I wa...

The 'Costa' case highlights just one area in which there will likely be appellate challenges to BAJI employment instructions. ...

LOS ANGELES - Lisa Specht, a partner at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips, on Wednesday assumed the presidency of the ...

The purpose of the Americans With Disabilities Act is to open doors to equal opportunity for the disabled. Does this include a...

LOS ANGELES - In a move that sent shivers of joy down the spines of Hollywood gossip columnists and gave entertainment industr...

LOS ANGELES - A group of grandmothers who say they are concerned about public education in their community may reach an import...

LOS ANGELES - A revenue officer with the Internal Revenue Service was sentenced Monday to more than three years in a federal p...

LOS ANGELES - Co-defendants of ex-Los Angeles Rams cornerback Darryl Henley, who were convicted of a cross-country cocaine dru...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Prunedale man's 18-year court fight to recover his unpaid wages has finally panned out, but it took a trip t...

SANTA ANA - Lester Van Tatenhove, a retired Orange County Superior Court judge who made his mark as a jurist and social activi...

SACRAMENTO - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a San Francisco lawyer to withdraw from a death penalty case after s...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's Holocaust victim insurance law survived a major constitutional attack before the 9th U. S. Circui...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oregon prisons are stepping on inmates' First Amendment rights by turning away subscription newsletters delive...

LOS ANGELES - City Council members lambasted Mayor Richard J. Riordan on Wednesday for standing in the way of needed reforms t...

LOS ANGELES - The creation of money can be almost as mysterious - and controversial - as the creation of the universe. That's ...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Victor Bianchini received the Big Footy Award for his service and assistance to the Foothills...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Culver City attorney Clair Martin Christensen. Christensen died Jan. 30 at...

Overcoming a life-threatening illness taught John E. Andrews that winning isn't everything, but the Los Angeles attorney hasn'...

SAN FRANCISCO - After getting voted out of San Francisco city government, former Richmond District supervisor Michael Yaki is ...

When the leagues faced legal challenges to their grip on money and power basketball, baseball and soccer didn't play games in ...

The professional sports industry, which involves unique and nonfungible labor, receive high marks for its ADR practices. ...

The entertainment industry is bracing itself for an impending labor dispute and inevitable lockout that is expected to bring H...

LOS ANGELES - Duane Lyons, a senior lawyer at the U.S. attorney's office, is leaving next week for private practice. After tak...

SAN JOSE - In a big win for Santa Clara County in a battle with technology giant International Business Machines Corp., a judg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Following a courtroom repudiation of the death penalty by San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan, co...

The untimely filing of a new-trial motion deprives a party of the extension-to-appeal period in the Federal Rules of Appellate...

President George W. Bush declared the theme of his second week in office to be "faith-based organizations," and his administra...

Sharon Lowsen, a sole practitioner in Fullerton, won a motion for nonsuit in a case of fraud brought against her client. Ci...