SAN DIEGO - It has been nearly two years since Kimberly Bailey and Richard Post drove across the border to Tijuana, where they...

By John C. Eastman. For more than a quarter century, Congress and state legislatures have been trying to rid our land of child...

Q. Can mediations be shortened? Sessions seem to kick into high gear only after the sun goes down. Ben Schonbrun, of Venice's ...

The laudable goal is making the new instructions more comprehensible to jurors, the vast majority of whom are not lawyers. ...

Judge Brickner counsels against taking notes during cross-examination. ...

Lawyers, take heart: When it comes to obfuscation, you are mere novices compared to lexicographers. ...

Lawyers and other professionals are being ripped off by the phone companies with the connivance of the state Legislature. As a...

In Pierotti v. Torian, 81 Cal.App.4th 17 (2000), the appellate court has issued another opinion in support of the finality of ...

In the spring of 1999, the media broadcast the story about the Palm Beach land developer who was arrested and charged for kidn...

Terrence A. Beard of Antioch's Law Offices of Terrence A. Beard obtained a $4 million verdict on behalf of eight SpeeDee Oil C...

Almost two years after he survived a deadly tank explosion on the job, in a complicated case with multiple defendants, tens of...

David J. Meyer has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' litigation and employment unit in Los Angeles as a partner. Meyer's o...

SANTA ANA - The Public Law Center of Orange County has named Kenneth W. Babcock as its new executive director. Babcock, curren...

In three of these cases, the court issued opinions that in some way ameliorated the harsh effects of the 1996 act. ...

The number of hate crimes reported in California rose 12.1 percent in 1999, but authorities are unsure how much of that is att...

Santa Monica police on Monday will present the city attorney with the case of a West Los Angeles lawyer who reportedly drove i...

Prosecutors say they may charge new defendants in the case of a La Verne couple who has pleaded guilty to allegations of obstr...

SANTA ANA - A tussle over patient care for hundreds of Pacificare members all but ended Thursday after an agreement was reache...

Her first mistake was following her solicitor's advice. Her second mistake was being honest. As a result, Deborah Gabbay Aaron...

The final buzzer sounded this week in a San Diego County football coach's long legal battle with his employer when a state app...

California has twice as many people serving time in state prisons for drug offenses as the state's entire prison population 20...

Judge Ellen C. DeShazer and a volunteer team of drug rehabilitation specialists, prosecutors, public defenders, probation offi...

The alternate public defender's office said Thursday it has uncovered a new basis on which it may appeal a client's drug convi...

Carefully chosen quotes, statistics, definitions and narration will increase a listeners' ability to comprehend and retain inf...

Summer-associate parties should be re-titled "three or four uncomfortable hours of forced conversation with colleagues." ...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal issued a stern warning to public entities through a ruling last week, holding the city of Tho...

Like most lawyers, I feel passionately about justice and the protection of individual rights and freedoms. The concepts of fai...

If the employer testifies falsely about the reason for the discharge, then the jury may conclude that it is attempting to conc...

RIVERSIDE - The City Council has named nine community leaders to a new citizen Police Review Commission formed in response to ...

A proposed ballot measure that would weaken the statute of limitations on internal Los Angeles Police Department discipline ca...