SEATTLE - A couple of years ago, Paul Wright read a short blurb in one of Seattle's daily newspapers. Washington state was con...

Steven A. Lerman, one of beaten-motorist Rodney King's former attorneys, is being sued by a woman who claims she was injured a...

LOS ANGELES - Steven A. Lerman, one of Rodney King's former attorneys, is being sued by a woman who claims she was injured a y...

DISBARMENTS Dixon, Kathryn Jo Anne, Berkeley Gray, Paul Michael , Hemet Moriarty, Michael J., Corte Madera Pohlmeyer, Donald V...

Peter M. Appleton Law School : University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, 1967 Career Highlights : Principal, Pete...

Allen Payne has a Y3K problem. Convicted in March 1997 of multiple sexual assault counts and three counts of child endangermen...

The sense of magic created was evident in the wide eyes and bright smiles of kids who weren't accustomed to this much attentio...

The U.S. economic blockade of Cuba that has led to the tragic conditions in Cuba must be lifted at once, and Elian must be ret...

Does Mayor Riordan see himself as a revolutionary marching into a new age with God and Mickey Mouse at his side? ...

Lone Harasser Non supervisory Employee Cannot Be Held Personally Liable Under FEHA The court considered and rejected appellant...

A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has pleaded no contest in a lewd conduct case and must undergo a treatment prog...

EDWARD STERN ADR Group: JAMS Case Types: General civil Location Served: Northern California Law School: Harvard Law School, 19...

By Stephen R. Barnett As Justice Stanley Mosk on Dec. 26 becomes the longest-serving justice in the history of the California ...

The California Supreme Court has narrowed the focus of a closely watched divorce case it will hear between San Francisco Giant...

By Michael Young In a recent mediation, no briefs had been submitted and no pre-mediation conference calls had taken place, so...

RIVERSIDE - The Riverside public defender who was fired following a scandal over her office's handling of conservatorships sue...

SAN FRANCISCO - Curtailing the ability of minority motorists to challenge allegedly race-based traffic stops, a federal appeal...

By his own account, he was a "paid gladiator." "I fight for my clients," he explained to his secretary. "Most clients aren't ...

SANTA ANA - In a possibly futile move, the Orange County Bar Association has voted to support a merger between the Legal Aid S...

Fifty years ago, Los Angeles attorney John T. McTernan was in his prime. He needed to be. For McTernan, the 1950s were not ab...

A law professor once told his class that no single person, even Bernie Witkin, could possibly summarize the whole vast sweep ...

California attorneys should be aware of one new law and two new court decisions that have strengthened older workers' ability ...

Communication skills are as fundamental to the legal arena as citing case law. And though we often think of communication as b...

A state appeal court has reinstated a suit over the rights to the life story and musical compositions of famed band-leader Cab...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second year in a row, Fenwick & West has been named one of the country's 100 best companies to wor...

Sentencing for Rafael A. Perez, the former Los Angeles Police Department officer who sparked the Rampart Division corruption s...

The special counsel to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors monitoring the sheriff's department told the board Tuesday ...

Former Disney Exec Hopes To Gain Release A former high-level Disney executive convicted of possession of child pornography is...

SAN JOSE -- In a move that maintains continuity, the San Jose City Council Tuesday appointed Concord City Attorney Rick Doyle...

An Australian clothing manufacturer claims in a lawsuit that its attorney at the Los Angeles firm Jeffer, Mangels, Butler &...