Two lawsuits filed by a criminal defense attorney who claimed the Los Angeles district attorney's office wrongly prosecuted h...

A Los Angeles judge Thursday reduced bail from $3.75 million to $2.25 million for a former attorney charged with looting mill...

Gov. Gray Davis Thursday named former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and former Gov. George Deukmejian to head a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In March, NBA chief counsel Jeffrey Mishkin said sanctions against Latrell Sprewell's lawyers for pursuing a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Handing broad new search-and-seizure powers to police, a sharply divided California Supreme Court on Thursday...

SAN FRANCISCO - Delinquency court can be a discouraging assignment for many jurists. But next week, Ina L. Gyemant will get a...

A judge Thursday reduced a $4.9 billion punitive damage award against General Motors Corp. to nearly $1.1 billion, ruling tha...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a Pettit & Martin client killed at the 101 California Street m...

^^ The Rodent ^^ I am taking a short break from the activities at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association to write...

Strikes Unstruck Appellate Courts Uphold Trial Judges' Dismissal of Priors Cases subsequent to 'Romero' have held that judici...

SANTA ANA - It seemed almost like a trailer for a torrid romance film - a man, accused of one murder and conspiracy to commit...

^^Speak Easy^^ Nonverbal vocabulary Silent strategies for handling space and power dynamics in your office or boardroom By Ch...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jeffrey S. Ross, a name partner in San Francisco's Friedman, Ross & Hersh, and the other two members of t...

^^Employment Law^^ Shackled Sleuth The FTC Has Extended Fair Credit Reporting Act to Workplace Investigations These requireme...

^^ The Bookshelf ^^ The Limits of Privacy By Amitai Etzioni BASIC BOOKS, $25, 280 PAGES, HARDCOVER By Cliff Cheng I was weane...

Supervisory Guidance New EEOC Document Interprets 'Farragher' and 'Ellerth' By David Goldman On June 18, the Equal Employment...

SAN FRANCISCO - In what appears to be a theft of privileged information, the office of the plaintiffs' civil litigation firm o...

Memorial services will be announced at a later date for federal court practitioner Max Gillam, regarded by many as the most r...

SANTA ANA - He denied granting a bonus to the law firm that won Orange County $865 million in bankruptcy settlements, but Tho...

Los Angeles County has opened itself up to sharp criticism by naming the city of Santa Monica as a defendant in a cross-compl...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the National Park Service violated the free speech rights of hom...

Judge Stephen M. Lachs generated a lot of attention 20 years ago when he was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court benc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs' lawyers are scurrying to stave off dismissal of their investor class-action cases in the wake of ...

Joe Hicks had to struggle to keep his mouth shut during his first meeting of the State Bar Board of Governors. As executive d...

WASHINGTON - Lawyers file suits against employers on behalf of employees all the time. Rarely, though, is the suit a class-ac...

SAN BERNARDINO - As a small child growing up in war-torn Cambodia, Run "Peter" Chhoun witnessed executions carried out by mem...

SACRAMENTO - Legislation to regulate long-term contracts for discount deposition services in civil cases appears to be dead f...

After hearing impassioned pleas on both sides, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to give preliminary ...

Over protests that too much money is being paid out, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to pay an addi...

A second sexual harassment lawsuit has been filed against Lynberg & Watkins and senior partner Charles A. Lynberg, who is...