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. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Individual judges still must decide for themselves whether to participate in the Boy Scouts, the state Supreme...

In what Congress and the Securities Exchange Commission call good common sense, eh hem, American-based stock exchanges will tr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Following a recent grand jury indictment, Sonoma County prosecutors formally charged respected Petaluma physic...

SAN FRANCISCO - A kiss is just a kiss. A sigh is just a sigh. And when Presiding Justice J. Anthony Kline of the 1st Appellate...

The states have spoken. Californians chose Vice President Al Gore, as did New Yorkers, Iowans and voters in 17 other states. N...

SIMI VALLEY - It's not been a good week for nudists in Ventura County. Despite protests from the Naturist Society and the Amer...

Having mastered the art of bankruptcy, Judge Lisa Hill Fenning is ready for "a different pace of life." As someone who likes "...

In T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the protagonist measures out his life with coffee spoons. Frederic...

Not long ago, wealth and prestige were granted to any newcomer to the Silicon Valley who touted a graduate degree and ample ex...

The 11-month ordeal to create history's biggest media merger has ended with most early nay-sayers applauding. If all goes as p...

SACRAMENTO - To help the state's trial courts cope with thousands of drug addicts entitled to treatment under Proposition 36, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge here indicated Thursday that he is considering a potentially huge reduction in the scop...

They've redefined how to do business. They've set new rules. They've even changed our vernacular. And now they're in Washingto...

The growth of elder law has been mirrored in the number of books devoted to the subject that have been released recently. Uniq...

Many attorneys believe they couldn't be guilty of common ADR advocacy faux pas, but even the best sometimes fall into a false ...