The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court. William O. Douglas CORREC...

By Chris Ford When a Fortune 100 company interviewed Brobeck Phleger & Harrison recently, it was looking for a firm to pr...

^^Insurance Law^^ By David Z. Ribakoff With limited exceptions, the California Rules of Professional Conduct forbid lawyers f...

By Leslie A. Gordon If the shoe fits, sue it. That should be the motto for Bullivant Houser Bailey's San Francisco office. On...

When the time finally arrives to make a presentation to a potential client, how much technological pizzazz should a firm pack...

By Mark R. Campbell When an attorney's individual clients run into financial difficulties, it pays to know the options availa...

A personal injury attorney cleared earlier this year in a large capping and money-laundering case filed an $80 million malici...

City prosecutors will have discretion to decide whether to file numerous violations of the Los Angeles Municipal Code as eith...

When the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a housing-discrimination lawsuit six years ago in Los Angeles Superio...

Anyone familiar with downtown Los Angeles would recognize the characters in this movie. Some lolled on bus stop benches in co...

ATLANTA - Giving his first in-depth comments after more than five years as a Whitewater defendant and federal prisoner, forme...

By Katherine James At 8:15 a.m., the line to get into juvenile traffic court was already 14 families long. We were the 15th. ...

By Adam B. Schiff More than 3 million children look to California's child-support enforcement system to satisfy their basic n...

By Kurt C. Peterson and Michael Eidel Twenty years ago, a camera crew would lie in wait to capture the unfolding of an elabor...

SAN FRANCISCO - It may be ironic, but it is not illegal or improper, that federal rules require that a criminal defense attor...

^^Occupational Hazards^^ By Hindi Greenberg Lawyers who wish to use their skills but want to leave the practice of law should...

By Michael D. Adams and Gregg A. Farley A recent flurry of mass-tort cases have attempted to substitute statistics in place o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Latham & Watkins has gained three high-profile litigation partners, two in the firm's Menlo Park office a...

A Woodland Hills attorney has taken his beef over a referral fee with a fellow attorney and former law schoolmate to the Inte...

ATLANTA - The head of the panel that recommended allowing lawyers to join "multidisciplinary practices" with nonlawyers told ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The tangled legal maneuvering to extract Proposition 187 from the federal appeals court and apply terms of a ...

SACRAMENTO - A state auditor's report Thursday called California's child support enforcement efforts "uneven" and "ineffectiv...

Civil rights attorneys Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Carl E. Douglas, Eric G. Ferrer and Shawn S. Chapman won dismissal Thursday of...

The family of a Pasadena teen-ager filed a lawsuit Thursday against Michelle Holden, the wife of Pasadena City Councilman Chr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Settling a controversial area of criminal restitution, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that insur...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1986, the legal profession was stunned by the case of a woman attorney who disguised herself as a man to t...

By Michael Paul Thomas Before the California Supreme Court eliminated the degree gradations in a landowner's duty of care bas...

Laws endeavor to resolve conflicts and regulate human behavior. However, often the real force of law is in making moral points...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sponsors of Proposition 187 opened a new round in the fight to resurrect the immigrant-benefits initiative We...

Personal Effects General Property-Damages Rule Doesn't Apply in Every Case By David Harris In California, the general rule of...