A state appeal panel has ruled that a city may refuse to publicly disclose the names, addresses and phone numbers of people w...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Osborn, the lawyer who wrote the novel on which "The Paper Chase" film and television series were based,...

Memorial services will be conducted Saturday for Walter G. Danielson, a retired probate attorney and consul general emeritus ...

A Cuban immigrant who developed a multimillion-dollar Hispanic cheese manufacturing company in the United States has been awa...

Services will be conducted today for Phyllis Kelly Fairbanks, one of the first 25 women to graduate from the UCLA School of L...

SAN FRANCISCO - Extending the life of sexual harassment claims, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that alleged incident...

Culver to Begin Weapons Checks Weapons screening equipment and staff will begin working Monday at the Culver Municipal Court,...

^^Employment Law^^ Costly Cups Supreme Court Defines 'Managing Agent' Under 'White' and 'Ginda,' the court will look to see w...

Remuneration and Respite New Laws Restore Daily Overtime and Allow Family-Care Sick Leave By Richard M. Albert, Michael A. Gr...

^^ Court Jesters ^^ Today is the first in an occasional series of interesting or humorous court opinions. In Fisher v. Lowe, ...

City Will Study Personalizing Guns Reacting to recent shootings across the country, including the rampage at the North Valley...

Gun Show Delays Suit Against L.A. A spokesman for the nation's largest gun show said Wednesday the organization has delayed f...

By Tom Teepen As much justice as was possible in the circumstances has been done in the awkward case of Samuel Sheinbein, the...

^^Recruiting Roundtable^^ Interview Intervention When trying to land that dream job, don't forget the basics By Anna Marie Ar...

SACRAMENTO - Workers' compensation attorneys and labor unions are making a final push in the waning days of the legislative s...

Putting a new twist on a novel anti-insurance fraud statute, 20th Century Insurance Co. has sued a contractor for allegedly s...

SAN DIEGO - Hugh P. Chindlund, a veteran trial attorney, has died following a three-month battle with colon cancer. He was 52...

A veteran of several high-profile death penalty cases, including the Unabomber's, has been asked to join the defense team for...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a coup for Boalt Hall School of Law, prominent e-commerce theoretician Mark A. Lemley has been recruited t...

The convicted three-strikes thief who was zapped with a 50,000-volt stun belt for repeatedly interrupting a judge during sent...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers argued Wednesday before the California Supreme Court over the scope of the state media shield law, a ...

SAN JOSE - Gov. Gray Davis signed a watered-down bill Wednesday that will tighten the requirements for defense attorneys who ...

SAN JOSE - A federal judge has thrown out some of the trade secrets theft allegations brought in Cadence Design Systems' civi...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco businessman Russell Jacobus knew his special friendship with the female office administrator wa...

RIVERSIDE - Gary Windom, senior supervising deputy public defender in Ventura County, has been selected as Riverside County's...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that will create a 470-attorney national law firm, Howrey & Simon will merge with Arnold White ...

A judge Monday questioned the constitutionality of a California law that allows Holocaust survivors and their heirs to sue fo...

The Ventura County Bar Association board of directors recently adopted basic "Guidelines for Professional Conduct and Civility...

By Joseph R. Giannini Like Rip Van Winkle, the majority in Warden v. State Bar of California, 99 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8877 (A...

Decision on Curfew Law Put on Hold The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to put off for one week a decisi...