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., ...

Southwestern Names New CFO Beth Drake, a former audit manager with Deloitte & Touche, has been appointed chief financial o...

Proposals to limit anonymous communications on the Internet would violate free speech rights long recognized by the Supreme Co...

McPeters Becomes Presiding Judge SAN BERNARDINO - Roberta McPeters takes over as presiding judge of the San Bernardino County ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As many as 1,400 deportation appeals now pending in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may change because ...

SANTA ANA - When Terence Whitworth received $400,000 in commissions for selling more than $40 million in computer products fo...

DENVER - Michael McLachlan couldn't have planned a better way to leave his high-profile state government job. As the No. 3 man...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County's new public defender will be the first woman to hold the post and one of only two female publ...

WASHINGTON - In sharp contrast to recent years, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's 1999 Year-End Report on the Federal Judic...

A doctor is sued over his treatment of a permanently disabled child, in part because of what appears to be a critical and bela...