LOS ANGELES - Last August, a year after white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr. went on a shooting rampage that left a Filipino...

RIVERSIDE - People who are terrified of snakes suffer from ophidiophobia. Those fearful of leaving their homes are agoraphobic...

Litigators encounter many mediators in the course of their practice - some good, some not so good. To increase the chances of ...

BY MELISSA ONSTAD When it comes to ADR, retired U.S. District Judge Eugene F. Lynch has has seen a few seasons come and go. H...

BY RICHARD M. MOSK While the provisions specifically applicable to international arbitrations are codified in Code of Civil P...

LOS ANGELES - Gregory Weingart has become chief of the complaints section of the U.S. attorney's office, U.S. Attorney Alejand...

SAN DIEGO - William Turley became president of Consumer Attorneys of San Diego during the Annual Awards & Installation Din...

SAN FRANCISCO - The local branch office of a Los Angeles-based attorney service vendor, Express Network Inc., unexpectedly clo...

By Leonard Novarro Luxury has its bounds. Between January 1990 and March 1994, the Sanwa Bank Ltd. loaned $94.5 million to Ja...

Financial distress is a common plague hitting many new dot-com companies struggling for a piece of the high-stakes technology...

In 1993, Elizabeth Cristina de Oliveira Maia witnessed and survived a military police massacre of street children in Rio de Ja...

LOS ANGELES - Chapman University School of Law will host the hearings of the 4th District Court of Appeal today. It is the fir...

Government and energy-industry officials scrambling for a solution to California's energy debacle have been struck by the same...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday turned aside an attempt to fill promptly a vacancy of one of the 15 coun...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court decision Tuesday that allows a trial court to review the patient files of a psychotherapist u...

SANTA ANA - Attorney General Bill Lockyer argued in Orange County Superior Court Tuesday that the county's tobacco settlement ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a former UCLA employee was justly convicted of stealing a...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Andrew F. Pollet, businessman and founding partner of Los Angeles' Pollet & Ri...

By Leonard Novarro As a child, Linda Dakin-Grimm read in a kids' magazine how to win prizes by selling seeds in her neighborh...

LOS ANGELES - David Edwards Agnew, a founding partner of Los Angeles' Agnew Miller & Carlson, has died. Agnew died Jan 13....

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray has sued Lloyd's of London for refusing to provide her with the attor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Once upon a time, Chief Justice Ronald George almost always voted on the winning side in California Supreme Co...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has enlarged its partnership ranks with commercial litigation ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster announced Tuesday that two new managing partners will be heading up the firm's local o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Concerned about restricting access to the Internet, a 1st District Court of Appeal panel appeared ready Tuesda...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge accused of repeatedly feigning illness while collecting his judicial salary claimed Tuesday ...

Especially in the case of tax systems primarily based on voluntary compliance, withholding is one of the mechanisms that enabl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Officials in San Francisco and Oakland have joined Santa Clara County's lawsuit against lead paint manufacture...

I don't like to rehash topics, but my Nov. 21 Dicta column on incivility among opposing lawyers, entitled "Uncivil Counsel: Fi...

The celebration and remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday this month coincided with the beginning of trial in G...