By Robert E. Thompson In its historic role as arbiter of constitutional conflict, the Supreme Court is preparing to plunge int...

A Los Angeles lawyer who was a fugitive for six months in a large auto insurance fraud case has been arrested, prosecutors sai...

A Los Angeles judge will decide whether California law should apply to claims made in four bad-faith lawsuits brought by the h...

SACRAMENTO - In granting states wide latitude in setting campaign contribution caps, the U.S. Supreme Court provided good news...

By Gary S. Wong While law firms face a number of challenges as they enter Y2K, they will also enjoy many technology opportuni...

By Michael Young I negotiate for a living, as do many of you. And, as many of you have already figured out, while negotiation...

Private services are planned for retired attorney William Anderson Tookey, who died Sunday . He was 76. "He just loved the la...

Gadfly Guilty In Map Incident WESTMINSTER - A Huntington Beach political gadfly charged with violating a state law that makes ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has elevated nine attorneys to the partnership. Last year, the firm electe...

By Elizabeth Freudenthal Not many transactional attorneys get to face down the gun of a drugged-out nightclub owner nor tell ...

A downtown Los Angeles dance hall accused of being a "house of prostitution" has lost the latest round in its fight against t...

The poor are losing their children to people who can provide a 'better life' for them within the confines of our children's co...

By Rod S. Berman and Steven Plotkin One of the more perplexing recent pronouncements by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

Fenwick & West INTERNET SECURITY COMPANIES LOCK IN DEAL Mountain View-based VeriSign Inc. has acquired Signio Inc. of Redw...

By Ashby Jones Say you're a small-business owner who develops a minor legal problem. On a lark, before you pick up the phone ...

By Chris Ford During U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork's 1987 confirmation hearings, a Washington newspaper published...

If Gordon Davidson finds something new in transactional law, it must really be new. After all, he's been with the Palo Alto o...

Judge Recuses Self From Trial SANTA ANA - Judge Charles Margines recused himself Friday from the criminal case of former Orang...

Last summer, Cynthia Cruz took a bus once a week from downtown Los Angeles to Century City to meet with her legal team from G...

As the industry "goes digital," new opportunities for cyber piracy will present themselves. ...

By Tamara Scott Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference....

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. - Irvin...

WASHINGTON- Tort reformers have taken their war with trial lawyers into cyberspace. The Washington-based American Tort Reform ...

In a case that sparked a district attorney's investigation into allegations of widespread theft by Los Angeles Municipal Court...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County deputy district attorney who is suing her office for discrimination testified during a trial Frid...

Former Disney Internet executive Patrick Naughton's conviction for possessing child pornography was overturned Friday by a fed...

LOS ANGELES - Kathleen E. O'Leary was sworn into office Friday as an associate justice of the 4th District Court of Appeal in ...

VICTORVILLE - Three generations of the family of James Marien had called for justice for the man who shot him in cold blood, s...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court is expected to receive a petition today asking it to order the California Supreme Court to rem...

The Federal Trade Commission has promulgated rules for the use of children's personal information on the Internet. ...