An insurance-defense attorney in the Bay Area received a response to one of his bills recently. Cut this, cut that, it said. ...

A Los Angeles businessman has filed a professional negligence complaint against his former attorneys, claiming he has suffere...

^^The Rodent^^ The Firm's Road-Trip Team Is a Many-Headed Beast Some sports teams, especially at the college level, have two ...

Tippler Transit New Amendments to the Driving-Under-the-Influence Laws By Mark S. Rafferty This year, amendments to the drivi...

Search Light The Supreme Court Has Clarified a Number of Fourth Amendment Issues Perhaps most astounding of all was the fact ...

By Thomas F. Coleman Four bills moving through the Legislature would grant benefits to unmarried couples, whether heterosexua...

By Stephen C. Tedesco On June 22, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two opinions that clarified the Americans With Disabilities A...

^^TALES AND TRIALS^^ By Joel ben Izzy I am always surprised when I work with trial lawyers who have never studied the great f...

A lawyer and a law firm employee who claim they wrongly were stopped and searched in a gang-infested area because they are wh...

Prominent Los Angeles neutral Diane Wayne is leaving Century City-based ADR Services Inc. to join JAMS/Endispute and buy into...

An AIDS patient who accused opposing counsel in a wrongful termination case of illegal conduct has settled his lawsuit agains...

SAN DIEGO - Mayor Susan Golding was found factually innocent Thursday of charges of misconduct in office brought against her ...

A 6-year-old child whose older brother died while in foster care is suing Los Angeles County and various other parties for in...

Ballots go in the mail today for California lawyers to elect new representatives to the State Bar Board of Governors . And th...

The North Hollywood man charged in the first case of its kind with using the Internet to stalk and repeatedly solicit the rap...

SAN FRANCISCO - Strong-armed by Washington into a merger few wanted, three of the largest Bay Area legal aid programs this we...

SAN FRANCISCO - Reaffirming the general secrecy of grand jury proceedings, the California Supreme Court held Thursday that the...

At least a dozen children in Los Angeles County have died under tragic circumstances in a little more than a month - since ea...

By Anthony J. Oncidi and Alisa M. Chevalier On July 9, the 3rd District Court of Appeal issued an opinion that should make it...

Jennifer N. Lehman In a trio of recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear that the Americans With Disabilities Act,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Setting the stage for a potentially important family law ruling, the state Supreme Court announced Wednesday ...

In a lawsuit that reads like a spy novel, London billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed claims a Los Angeles attorney and several other...

SAN FRANCISCO - Giving significant protection to California-based banks, a federal appeals court Wednesday held that outside ...

A $4 million punitive damages award against Kmart, described by the discount chain's attorney as the largest individual emplo...

A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner who sanctioned an attorney $1,200 for refusing to return a gun to his client's alle...

SAN FRANCISCO - Elisa Barnes and Denise Dunleavy, the New York lawyers who employed a negligent distribution theory of liabil...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Canadian company wants nearly $1 billion in compensation for Gov. Gray Davis' order phasing out the controv...

The state Welfare and Institutions Code prohibits disclosure of any information relating to a matter within the jurisdiction ...

Many judicial officers dislike hearing cases in which defendants act as their own lawyers. But Los Angeles Superior Court Com...

Ruling in the first employment case arising out of state trial court unification, an appellate court in San Diego decided Wed...