A suspected rapist who was shot and wounded by police shortly after assaulting a lawyer in her Beverly Glen-area home early Ne...

A bridge between the old days of L.A. Law and the new was crossed last week with the passing of Nathan Snyder, who for more t...

The justices this week will hear these cases: Is the proper venue for a suit to vacate an arbitration award the federal distri...

Freeway Chase Snags Pot Advocate A marijuana advocate led police on a high-speed freeway chase in November, just two days afte...

Southeast District Gets New P.J. Municipal Court Judge Raul A. Sahagun, who is cross-assigned to the Los Angeles Superior Cour...

The courtroom is a place where people say and do funny things. Sometimes the humor is accidental, but more often than not it i...

Event to Benefit Legal Aid Clinic The Santa Monica Bar Association is seeking donations for its silent auction to be held duri...

The theoretical concept of ethics is ancient, but the practice of ethics as a profession is new and growing. The position of e...

It could very well be that Formal Opinion 1999-153 signifies a sea change in the area of corporate representation. ...

By Thomas D. Elias The presumption when Californians ended all state-sanctioned affirmative action by passing Proposition 209 ...

Assignments Made To Department 70 California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George has assigned the judges to Los Angel...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard W. McLain, who was appointed to the bench less than two years ago, died of a massive...

Rocker John Fogerty, former lead singer for Credence Clearwater Revival, has filed a $1 million-plus lawsuit against his forme...

Services will be held today for entertainment lawyer Harold Arlen Lipton, who died Thursday . He was 88. Lipton's approach to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Proposition 209, the voter-approved measure that sought to ban race-preferential affirmative action programs,...

Retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Roy S. Ferkich, who died Dec. 23 at age 70, was remembered Monday by a colleague as...

Services have been held for tax attorney and CPA Arnold W. Magasinn, who collapsed while on vacation in Mammoth Dec. 23 and d...

SAN FRANCISCO - The anarchists and journalists have long since moved on from last month's so-called battle in Seattle. But tw...

When a Placer County judge grabbed his female bailiff's breasts in chambers, he was not acting in an official judicial capaci...

SANTA ANA - Nearly two years after the California Supreme Court overturned his conviction and death sentence in the murder of...

When is a Beach Boy not a Beach Boy? That was the riddle before U.S. District Judge Harry L. Hupp in Los Angeles on Monday. It...

DA's Child Support Hours to Change The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Bureau of Family Support has announced new offic...

Divorce Training Workshop Planned An "Uncontested Divorce" training workshop will be presented by the Los Angeles Free Clinic,...

THE ADVISER Dairy Queen is proof that class actions are still alive and well in the franchise context, despite decertificatio...

39/33-1 fg bold "I love the Internet!" That's what Oprah Winfrey said after her television show featured a segment on ImpactO...

LARGE FIRMS More and more law firms are hiring highly paid marketing professionals, as competition for new clients becomes fi...

FIRM WATCH Silicon Valley's Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian is raising first-year associate sala...

Elizabeth Jasper, a San Francisco-based legal marketing consultant, believes lawyers need a little art in their lives. Whethe...

Therese Mrozek's favorite play is Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," in which the two main characters wait under a tree fo...

DEALS Cisco Systems Inc., an Internet-technology provider , hired Brobeck Phleger to represent it in acquiring Cerent Corp., ...