SAN FRANCISCO - Two of San Francisco's largest firms recently announced their 2001 partner rosters. Recent years have been goo...

LOS ANGELES - Substance abuse is the subject of the Jan. 10 dinner meeting of the L.A. West American Inn of Court. The program...

Jafar Siddiq Hamzah, a U.S. resident and head of the New York-based nongovernmental organization International Forum for Aceh,...

Many defendant companies view buying settlement silence as an economically rational cost of doing business. ...

SANTA ANA - A state appellate court has granted a writ of mandate allowing a man to operate a fleet of taxi cabs in Anaheim, f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Burnham "Ham" Enersen, name partner in the San Francisco firm McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, has died at...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard has gained 11 attorneys from Santochi Gable Dwyer & Takah...

LOS ANGELES - Crispus Attucks Wright, a retired Los Angeles civil attorney and co-founder of the John M. Langston Bar Associat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trailblazing gay-rights attorney Paul F. Wotman died in his home Christmas Day of complications of lymphoma. H...

LOS ANGELES - The civil suits that the Daily Journal's litigation-saturated news hounds found most refreshing in Los Angeles t...

LOS ANGELES - After a century of headline-grabbing trials and record-setting verdicts, Los Angeles Superior Court tiptoed quie...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Superior Court judge who ordered Ford Motor Co. to recall and fix as many as 1.7 million Ca...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $3.3 million to a roofing assistant who suffered severe burns on the job, then fo...

Mediation is the only dispute-resolution process that offers the probability of a solution that includes reconciliation.

LOS ANGELES - The Internal Revenue Service has awarded grants for legal clinics to two Southern California law schools, the on...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Free Clinic will conduct Chapter 7 bankruptcy training on Feb. 10. The five-hour training sessio...

There is no real secret to networking. Most people, myself included, won't admit that we do it. Maybe we think it smacks of ch...

LOS ANGELES - Two dozen people were charged this year with bankruptcy fraud in Southern California - the busiest bankruptcy co...

LOS ANGELES - Indecent exposure and Christmas don't mix. That is the message behind a seasonal class action filed in Los Angel...

LOS ANGELES - Two little girls who were murdered by their mother Wednesday had endured years of abuse and neglect before they ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite legislative efforts to give grandparents a larger role in rearing children from broken homes, elders a...

Given the perceived uncertainty that a Web site faces if it joins Safe Harbor, the 'wait and see' approach may be the dominant...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judges Laurence D. Kay of San Francisco and Dennis A. Cornell of Merced won quick and unanimous confirmation T...

John Steven West of Los Angeles' Allred, Maroko & Goldberg scored a $135,000 settlement in the case of a housing-complex t...

Attorneys in California and on the East Coast have spent the past several years seeking justice through the civil courts for H...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service has taken place for Granada Hills attorney William S. Greene, an advocate for the development...

The statute requires that the judge consider using less drastic alternatives and weigh whether the discovery violations were w...

Photography is not wasted on attorney Steven G. Mehta. However, his wife, Michelle Mann, does complain that he sometimes cuts ...

Although a bailiff is responsible for the safety of the judge, being a courtroom bailiff is much more than being a bodyguard. ...

Economists, some of whom - let's face it - have been predicting an economic slowdown for years, say the end is finally near. ...