SAN DIEGO - Each request, painstakingly printed in pencil, represents someone's last hope to prove to the world that the jury ...
The state Department of Social Services is seeking to revoke permanently the foster care license of a Santa Barbara-area foste...
Protests continued to escalate Friday over the protesters expected at the Democratic National Convention, as the Los Angeles C...
Facing the grim reality that California's Medi-Cal system is broken, Governor Gray Davis focused on a quick fix - a massive cr...
Until 1999, there were very few appellate decisions involving civil claims for elder abuse under Welfare and Institutions Code...
Q. Which cases should never, ever be mediated? A. Conventional wisdom dictates that, where new law needs to be made, mediation...
Some litigators rarely try cases, while others can honestly be called trial lawyers. Gary M. Paul is unquestionably the latter...
Some L.A. lawyers really know which buttons to push when filing a lawsuit. Think of the paper that lawyer Pierce O'Donnell thr...
Late this summer, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs will send out approximately 60,000 Equal Opportunity surv...
John J. Machado argued away sub rosa videotape of his client artificially inseminating a cow using his injured shoulder. ...
There are many reasons that explain Vicente Fox's decisive victory in elections in Mexico. His charismatic candidacy, his obst...
The booming economy may offer abundant opportunities for employees, but the transient nature of today's work force has produce...
Does a recent trilogy of California Supreme Court cases create a new battleground in wage-and-hour litigation? ...
It may be more difficult to settle employment litigation in the future because defendants may be required to pay greater amoun...
Tim McCormick, the former cancer patient known as the "pot prince of Bel Air," received a five-year federal narcotics prison t...
After 18 years of practicing law, Nancy J. Warren has found a new passion: mediation. With years of experience as an attorney,...
Services will take place today for retired judicial attorney and 1999 Woman Lawyers Association of Los Angeles honoree Frances...
Kenneth A. Rivin hit a career high in May when he obtained a $5 million verdict for his client, Richard Herr, in Richard Herr ...
On June 12, 2000, the high court handed down its decision in Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products Inc., 2000 Daily Journal D....
New case law expected from the California Supreme Court and new legislation contemplated at both the state and federal levels ...
Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market. NYSE Qwest...
Are the federal courts more "employer-friendly" than state courts in employment litigation, especially when it comes to employ...
A 52-year-old man who claims he was hired in February 1997 by accounting-house giant Deloitte & Touche and was the only Af...
Stung by publicity surrounding his role as an arbitrator, retired Supreme Court Justice Armand Arabian on Thursday resigned fr...
Thirty Hollywood families who allegedly endured raw sewage, collapsed ceilings and a lack of running water in their apartments...
A memorial service will take place Saturday for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Arch Rollin Tuthill. The judge died S...
Defense counsel in harassment cases should attack a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress on the basis that t...
The Los Angeles Police Protective League on Thursday called on the district attorney's office to release the names of the thre...
As a Sacramento County prosecutor, Pete Harned had it all - but lost it when he was arrested July 19, 1996, on suspicion of po...
Calling him a "legal bully" and "the quintessential professional litigant," defendants in a real estate disclosure action move...