Senior U.S. District Judge David W. Williams, the first black federal judge appointed west of the Mississippi, has died, cour...

The California attorney general's office has no sympathy for state residents who run up big gambling debts in Nevada. The offi...

WISE Senior Services will honor Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp for its pro bono legal work on behalf of the nonprofit agency...

Dicta: By The Rodent I once attended an "Introduction to Law" program at a local law school. The program was designed to attra...

The Practitioner: Family Law By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer Three recent cases indicate that the equi...

Forum: By Fred J. Hiestand The dismantling of the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act is being pursued by the personal inju...

VENTURA - The Ventura County Superior Court recently donated 35 computers to several county schools. The donations are part of...

U.S. District Judge Margaret Morrow will be keynote speaker at the Santa Monica Bar Association's annual Law Day Dinner next T...

Dicta: Marketing Mailbag By Anne Bothwell There are many ways to promote your practice and your firm, and most don't have to b...

A state Judicial Council task force on Monday released a sample of proposed jury instructions that they hope will make jurors'...

SANTA ANA - A former manager of an Orange County Target store has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the chain, claiming t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto's Cooley Godward is building its information technology practice by adding two partners, Gary H. Moo...

Immigration officials said Monday they are awaiting the outcome of a medical report this morning to determine whether a Thai ...

A cigarette distributor challenged the $206 billion settlement between the Big Five tobacco companies and attorneys general in...

Consistent with his belief that increasing management scrutiny will lessen the chance of officer misconduct, Los Angeles Polic...

Palm Springs lawyer L. Joane Garcia-Colson is the new executive director of Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College, the Dubois, ...

Concluding that a convicted cop killer received ineffective assistance of counsel, a federal appellate court Monday threw out ...

Speech isn't so free for radio talk-show host Herb Nero and Eric Chandler Communications of Antelope Valley, the owners of rad...

A federal judge has dealt a first-round loss to Napster Inc., the wildly popular Internet company that allows users access to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Companies using salaried, in-house lawyers are entitled to recover attorney fees at the prevailing private hou...

Forum: By Sheila James Kuehl Last year, along with Assemblyman Martin Gallegos, I was asked by Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa to...

SAN JOSE - In a case that could affect the rights of California technology employees to switch jobs, Intel Corp. is fighting i...

Bottom Line: By Marcia Watson Wainess and Dennis Duitch In today's rapidly changing business marketplace, clients are becoming...

Forum: By Dianne Feinstein It doesn't seem real, but it's true. A 6 -year-old Michigan boy guns down a 6 -year-old girl in the...

The Closer: By JoAnne Earls Robbins The lead prosecutor rose slowly from the counsel table to give his closing argument. He ap...

Services will be held Tuesday for retired attorney Susan Elizabeth Riley, who died April 27. The long time San Marino resident...

SANTA ANA - Lori Jensen, a former Orange County midwife under fire for allegedly causing the stillborn birth of a baby, pleade...

A Beverly Hills lawyer who allegedly advised two doctors on how to conceal assets from the bankruptcy court and the IRS has be...

When Loryn Dunn Arkow made the split-second decision to study the Japanese language as an undergraduate, there was no way she ...

The San Francisco office of Los Angeles-based Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has added Michael Wilmar as a partner in...