SACRAMENTO - Former Attorney General Dan Lungren has agreed to pay a $30,000 fine to settle charges he violated campaign repor...
LOS ANGELES - When Walter Gordon Jr. opened his own law practice in South Central Los Angeles way back in 1937, he wasn't pick...
LOS ANGELES - If he could be raised from the dead, what would Confederate General Robert E. Lee have to say to John Ashcroft, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has announced two firsts: The first associate salary raises of ...
WASHINGTON - When John Ashcroft appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee today for his confirmation hearing to be attorne...
If you don't know where to start with your business development resolutions, let me offer a helping hand. These endeavors shou...
By Robert Fisk They smiled as they were dying. One little girl in a Basra hospital even put on her party dress for The Indepe...
Workplace romances pose a host of problems for both employers and employees. ...
If you think that the e-commerce revolution is occurring solely in the entrepreneurial world, think again. For the past decade...
A successful interview is a two-way street, providing an opportunity for the employer and you, the candidate, to learn more ab...
SACRAMENTO - Sue Ellen Wooldridge ends a four-month stint as general counsel to the state Fair Political Practices Commission ...
Believe it or not, there are two Web sites exclusively devoted to misheard lyrics. ...
Despite the dark clouds hanging over the economy as a whole, the outlook for development in 2001 looks as bright as it did in ...
Where's Jiminy Cricket when you need him? As Pinocchio discovered, without the little guy talking into your ear, it's tough fi...
Four self-described consumer advocates have banded together to launch the first challenge in three decades to the leadership o...
In all the continuing legal education materials I have seen, I don't think I've ever read anything about the art of estimating...
Coverage as an additional insured provides vital insurance coverage for owners and general contractors of construction project...
Intellectual Property
Harry Potter Meets Legal Wizardry on the World Wide Web
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Time Warner Entertainment Co. wasn't amused when it discovered that a California resident had registered more ...
SACRAMENTO - Saying it is "outrageous" for taxpayers to foot the legal bills of an embattled utilities commissioner, a watchdo...
A foundation for one of the country's most prolific inventors has charged dozens of companies with a violation of his patent f...
LOS ANGELES - Robert H. Gillham, retired workers' compensation judge in Santa Ana, has died. Gillham died of cancer Jan. 3 at ...
With layoffs looming in the not-too-distant future and stock options not worth the paper they're written on, some New Economy ...
Orange County will receive nearly $10 million in state funds to fight juvenile crime, Gov. Gray Davis said in an announcement ...
Constitutional Law
DA Expresses Her Concern About Seizure of Documents
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - A San Bernardino County prosecutor acknowledged Thursday that she was "concerned" when her office seized documents...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fresno criminal defense attorney Charles Magill thought he could keep his client's name secret and clear him o...
LOS ANGELES - Call it Gil's revenge. In his first big loss since taking office last month, new District Attorney Steve Cooley ...
LOS ANGELES - The popular TV drama series "Law and Order" explains it this way: "In the criminal justice system, the people ar...
WASHINGTON - In a case that has become a rallying point for English-only advocates, the Supreme Court this week will consider ...
The silence of the contract on the sellers' contribution rights terminated those rights.
Alan Dershowitz recently wrote an irresponsible Los Angeles Times editorial ("Justice May Be Blind, But It's Not Deaf" (Dec. 2...