SAN FRANCISCO - This phenomenon is for real: Large Silicon Valley firms are so overwhelmed by the demand for their time, they ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Orange County's supervising criminal courts judge and the alternate public defender's office broke the law whe...

Television producer and writer Deborah Pratt had "had it" with attorneys, whom she considered to be at the same level in the e...

Dicta: On 'Ally McBeal' By Rebecca Lulow A managing partner's worst fear was embodied in the character of Nelle Porter on this...

Forum: By Charles Levendosky The peaceful anti-logging protesters, who had pepper spray blasted into their eyes at close range...

M, I sent an electronic photo of Gene Moscovitch to you this week. He is bearded and rabbinic-looking. -L SPECIAL ISSUE: ADR B...

The Practitioner: Intellectual Property Law By Robert. R. Sachs The competitive value of Internet, business-method or software...

Dicta: On 'Law & Order' By Judith B. Sklar Sometimes it takes a village to commit a crime. We know about the most common a...

Dicta: On 'The Practice' By M.C. Sungaila After a richly textured three-episode exploration of the death penalty, the series r...

^^SPECIAL ISSUE: ADR^^ By Gerald T. McLaughlin and Paul Turner When parties need to mediate letter- of- credit disputes, couns...

When television producers and writers Deborah Pratt and Donald P. Bellisario, who created the mega-hit "Quantum Leap," divorce...

Dicta: On 'Judging Amy,' By Akilah Monifa Although some may disagree, race matters. Five years ago federal law made race-match...

The Practitioner: Intellectual Propery Law By Surjit P. Soni and M. Danton Richardson It is often stated that the U.S. Supreme...

Industrial espionage shocked adhesive giant Avery-Dennison when it discovered that its top scientist had been secretly recruit...

SAN DIEGO - A former central jail booking clerk alleges in a wrongful termination lawsuit that she was forced to quit her job ...

SANTA ANA - Being a "Toys 'R' Us kid" may be fun, but being a Toys 'R' Us employee may mean getting shortchanged on overtime p...

Los Angeles-based public interest law group Bet Tzedek Legal Services on Thursday named Scott A. Edelman president of its boar...

On the Move: San Diego-based Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps has lost the head of its labor and employment department, Cra...

Leaders of police unions from all over the country on Thursday joined Los Angeles Police Protective League President Ted Hunt ...

The University of Southern California Law School has appointed one of its professors and graduates as its new dean. Professor ...

Some Laotian Vietnam war veterans and their family members now living in the United States could take a citizenship test throu...

Relatives of nine Baldwin Park residents who died, allegedly after years of drinking water contaminated with oil, solvents and...

The Public Eye By Ross Johnson Memo to: The lawyers of the thousands of Hollywood screenwriters tempted to steal from Thursday...

SAN DIEGO - It has been almost two years since California voters approved unifying the state's trial courts, a formidable task...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco psychiatrist, discharged from the Air Force for being gay, filed suit Thursday to block Air Fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court will review an appellate court's dismissal of a class action alleging that nine o...

Critics of the status quo say that America's neglect of its incarcerated kids with mental health problems has reached the brea...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Pelican Bay state prison guard has been sentenced to nearly eight years in federal prison for a near-...

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and Campion Counseling Center plan domestic violence prevention training for legal and men...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has wiped out the bulk of Sony Corp.'s copyright and trademark suit against Connectix Corp. in...