By Mark Goldowitz On Oct. 10, Gov. Gray Davis signed AB1675 into law. The legislation amends Section 425.16 of the Code of Ci...

Garcetti Escapes Injury in Accident Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti escaped injury last week when a flying ...

By Stacy L. Cohen Earlier this month, Kenneth Liang found himself juggling four tasks in one day. While four items on a to-do...

By Jeffrey Anderson Patients haggling with their health maintenance organizations sometimes benefit from a little name-droppi...

By Josh Grossberg Ask John Horn about alternative dispute resolution, and he starts talking about Robert De Niro. With a penc...

Brobeck Phleger INTEL INDICATES INTENT TO INCLUDE IPIVOT Santa Clara's Intel Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire I...

A family that speeds together, stays together. Or at least that's what attorney Jonathan Cole's family believes. They are bou...

Vin de siecle From Temecula to Sonoma, California vintner-lawyers will say good bye to the 20th Century and the Second Millen...

Craig Andrews was interested in science. And he was interested in business. Instead of choosing between the two, he decided t...

Judge Extends Stay Of Gang Injunction Prosecutors have obtained a further stay of a 1998 injunction against the notorious Los...

By Gary S. Wong As law firms continue the migration to a Windows-based operating environment, they often realize that despite...

By Leslie A. Gordon Frank Farella's fondest childhood memories are of helping his grandfather, a retired cellist, make his ow...

By Jennifer Byrd In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy called a group of more than 200 attorneys to a White House meeting t...

A juror on Friday denied allegations she voted for the death penalty for a man convicted of four murders in Compton based on ...

While Louis "Skip" Miller awaits a hearing on what punishment, if any, he might receive from the State Bar for violating an e...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling with significant ramifications for excessive force cases, a federal appeals court has denied qual...

Students and faculty are roundly disturbed by the low numbers of minority students at the UCLA School of Law and have called ...

SAN DIEGO - The convictions that led to unification grew over decades, according to the Judicial Council's administrative off...

In light of a claim filed by the adoptive parents of convicted killer Jeremy Strohmeyer against Los Angeles County, Superviso...

In an attempt to narrow the authority of the inspector general, Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks has asked the Board...

The state Judicial Council voted unanimously Friday to ask Gov. Gray Davis to include in his budget a 17 percent pay raise fo...

SAN DIEGO - Court clerks unhappy with working conditions and pay levels proposed by a court committee after last year's unifi...

SAN DIEGO - While the air outside still carries the fresh salt imprint of San Diego Bay and red trolleys are disgorging the f...

Before he transformed himself into a world-class, billion-dollar fraud artist and bought a Hollywood studio with funny money,...

VENTURA - After 15 years of physical and emotional abuse, it was one final rape that Gladis Barreras Soto claims prompted her...

TWO BAY AREA LITIGATORS HANG THEIR SHINGLE Two well-known San Francisco litigators have left the comfort of their firms to fo...

Legal concepts are supernatural entities which do not have a verifiable existence except to the eyes of faith. Felix S. Cohen...

^^Judging Amy^^ By Corky Pickering Was this week's child-custody battle between a witch named Ms. Featherstone and her estran...

Iles Responds to Recusal Motion LAGUNA NIGUEL - Orange County Superior Court Judge Pamela Iles responded Thursday to allegati...

^^Family Law^^ By Erin O'Bryan Stealing from recent headlines, this week's episode tackles the issue of teen violence in scho...