Katherine Mader, one of three candidates vying for the only open Los Angeles Superior Court seat, asked a judge Monday to orde...

SANTA ANA - A Huntington Beach attorney filed a federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) lawsuit Mond...

On the same day, on the same floor of the Central Courthouse, two name partners from the firm Fogel, Feldman, Ostrov & Rin...

Dorothy von Beroldingen, a feisty pioneer advocate for women's and gay rights who retired in July after 22 years on the San F...

When the U.S. Surgeon General released his report on national mental health policy last week, Health and Human Services Secret...

In a significant boost for hundreds of aliens in criminal deportation cases, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that judges ...

A dapper, charming, but reputedly very untrustworthy 84-year-old Los Angeles attorney may be on the lam in Brazil with his fia...

Like bankers, accountants and financial planners, lawyers are subject to the immutable laws of supply and demand. When busine...

Even now, the novel brings a knot to the throat and a jab of nausea to the stomach, almost a century after it was first publis...

SAN DIEGO - A proposal to fire a veteran district attorney's investigator has rankled peace officers and may well cost Distric...

SACRAMENTO - Color the plaintiffs' bar wary as it ponders the probability that Robert M. Hertzberg will become Assembly speake...

The good - and opinionated - people who responded to the CLB survey believe 50 legal developments were significant in Califor...

Pillsbury Madison SAN FRANCISCO HEADQUARTERS MOVES TO FREMONT STREET DIGS Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro has moved its San Fr...

DEALS San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster represented Oregon-based Digimarc, which produces digital watermarking products...

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DEALMAKER When not climbing rocks, Morrison & Foerster's Gavin Grover is advising clients around the clock. By Emma Vares...

Today, many people know Allan Bakke as the doctor who tells them to count backwards from 100 as they fall into a deep sleep. ...

California voters made legal history in 1986 by refusing to reconfirm Chief Justice Rose E. Bird and associate justices Josep...

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Putting Frivolous Law Suits to Good Use In Sacramento, a judge holds a mock trial and encourages lawyers to haul "law suits" ...

Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type and the printing press made many other events in history - and their recording...

Xenophobia and military might collided with a profound failure of the legal system when Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executiv...

Akin Gump ENTERTAINMENT GROUP JOINS IN CENTURY CITY In a move to build its entertainment practice, Washington, D.C.,-based Ak...

Local governments' general plans have become in recent years the most important land-use documents. Page 7. Basic Blueprint Th...

In 1957, a flying piece of wood conked William Greenman on the forehead and inflicted serious injuries. The resulting lawsuit...

By Denise Serra Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it unlawful for "an employer ... to discriminate against any ...

The '80s did not begin on New Year's Day, 1980. Many people actually popped the corks on the legendary decade of trickle-down...

FORUM The Rodent: The Y2K bug throws one firm back to the "good old days" of 1900. Page 6. By The Rodent Fast-forward to Jan. ...

The Los Angeles Criminal Courts Bar Association has announced its new officers for the year 2000. Barry Levin is president, D...

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