A law firm claims it was abandoned during the course of litigation by its legal malpractice insurance company and the malpract...

Moore v. Teletech , Los Angeles Superior Court LC033016 (1999) - an employment discrimination suit in which the plaintiff soug...

SACRAMENTO - Some police officers who have been convicted of certain kinds of felonies - including sex crimes, assault and the...

"Do y'all have gravity out there?" was the Atlanta lawyer's pained reaction to our nutshell description of the workings of Cal...

At 5 feet 1 inch, Jeanine Donohue might not look like the brawniest person on the planet. But looks can be deceiving. Donohue...

The International Standby Practices 1998 provides a global code of practice for standby letters of credit and similar undertak...

In some ways, it is your garden-variety showbiz lawsuit. A well-known film producer is being sued for allegedly violating an o...

SANTA ANA - Huntington Beach attorney Philip Putman, who filed a federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act la...

William Cernius, a securities partner in the Newport Beach office of Latham & Watkins, is still trying to lose his Englis...

After successfully defending a discrimination or harassment action under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, an em...

A subcontractor must honor its bid when a prime contractor reasonably relies on it. Page 7. Reasonable Reliance When Must a Su...

SAN FRANCISCO - 1999 was another record year for large Northern California law firms. Profits per partner hit $851,000 at one ...

The problem is, as helpful as Miranda is in regularizing police conduct in general, it can also unnecessarily impede the resol...

If Bill Price is nervous in the courtroom, it's not because he's scared of trying cases. Nor is it because of the multimillion...

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. - Henry David Thoreau Oppenheimer Wolff THREE B...

Accused Rapist Pleads Not Guilty A 26-year-old Reseda man accused of brutally raping an attorney early New Year's Day in her B...

Fusing the old and the new, Los Angeles' 50-year-old Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger is returning to its core competenc...

Services have been held for bankruptcy attorney Peter James Leotta, who died at a Northridge hospital Dec. 31 after suffering ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti's campaign manager on Friday retracted a statement that challenger Barry Gro...

SAN DIEGO - It's often the restroom that starts the problems for Kathleen Lentini, who uses a wheelchair after being paralyze...

SAN DIEGO - Kathleen Lentini was rolling up a ramp that was intended to make buildings accessible for physically disabled peop...

Jack E. Brown, a pioneering Phoenix intellectual property attorney who led Apple Computer Inc. to a major victory over a clone...

From Staff Reports LOS ANGELES - A convoluted federal fraud lawsuit and accompanying bankruptcy lawsuit involving Citrus Munic...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed inclined Thursday to uphold 1996 legislation limiting the appeal rights of...

The Legislature should amend the FEHA to disregard Stevenson and require the exhaustion of administrative remedies in all case...

A judge Thursday reduced by three years the prison term of a man framed in one of two cocaine cases by the former police offic...

RIVERSIDE - County employees no longer have to pay for hearings to contest discipline actions or firing, thanks to a change of...

To attorneys John B. Golper, John J. Manier and Douglas N. Silverstein, longtime McDonnell Douglas Corp. employee Lonnie Staff...

In this week's rerun of 'Ally McBeal,' Billy and Georgia Thomas represent a woman suing her former employer, claiming she was ...

A series of cases has refined the doctrine of assumption of risk and re-defined how to bring motions for summary judgment. ...