By Vernon Jarrett When earlier this month the U.S. Supreme Court weighed the William Wardlaw stop-and-frisk case, Illinois v....

SACRAMENTO - An insurer-led coalition today will submit petitions to qualify for the March 2000 ballot a referendum to overtu...

SAN DIEGO - As the first filing period for judicial candidates ended Monday, one Superior Court judge announced that he won't...

ORANGE - Orange attorney Charles William Garrity, remembered as a "very talented" lawyer, died Nov. 12 after a long battle wi...

In a time rife with complaints that African-Americans experience continuing racial profiling by police as well as discriminat...

Three more candidates for the only open Los Angeles Municipal Court seat filed the necessary paperwork before Monday's deadli...

For the first time in its history, the American Bar Association will hold its mid-year meeting in San Diego in 2001. Last wee...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite an Oakland jury's report Tuesday that it is "hopelessly deadlocked" 8-4 in the $4 billion class-actio...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Commissioners Sheila Fell, Gary Paer, Michael Leversen and Erick Larsh were among nearly two dozen ...

RIVERSIDE - Superior Court Judge William H. Sullivan, reassigned from the probate bench earlier this year after an investigat...

The landmark trade agreement between the Clinton Administration and China could have a positive trickle-down effect for large...

By Kimberly Quackenbush Trend analysts tell us the shortage of talent, from lawyers to entry-level clerical, will be at an al...

Name: George B. Brewster Title: President and executive director Company: California Center for Land Recycling Location: San ...

Your article in the November 1999 issue, on page 29, titled "Concrete-frame structures pose serious quake risk" is quite misl...

Los Angeles County prosecutors Monday filed their responses to three defense motions attacking a 1976 grand jury indictment t...

It was, according to a seemingly disgusted state appellate panel, the "trial from hell." Not because of an unruly defendant. ...

WASHINGTON - Delving once again into the knotty issue of prayer in the public schools, the Supreme Court announced Monday it ...

Attorney Murray M. Fields is 90, but he still shows up for work four days a week at Los Angeles' Buchalter, Nemer, Fields &am...

Burning the midnight oil as an attorney in the fast-paced business climate of Silicon Valley is hardly a new phenomenon. Stil...

Fenwick & West BLUE MOUNTAIN GETS EXCITED ABOUT DEAL Redwood City-based Excite@Home will acquire Blue Mountain Arts Publi...

Cost of Living or e-xpensive Attorneys in Silicon Valley have to pay a price for the chance to practice cutting-edge law. Lon...

SAN JOSE - In an escalation of the legal war between corporate America and critics who post anonymous attacks on the Internet...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three years ago, after a drug called Gemcitabine was approved for treatment of pancreatic cancer, several med...

While state judicial disciplinary authorities decide his fate, Placer County Judge W. Jackson Willoughby III must contend wit...

For the past 15 months, Placer County Judge W. Jackson Willoughby III has been barred from his own courthouse. Because two fe...

By Robin S. Levi If a document existed that set forth an international standard for comprehensively addressing sexual discrim...

Micro Mini 'One-Molecule' Contributors Dismissed From CERCLA Litigation The court endorsed the one-molecule rule but held tha...

By Charles Levendosky Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., enjoys slamming his head against the wall - the wall that separates church...

SAN DIEGO - When hundreds of investors were defrauded by J. David Dominelli in San Diego's most notorious pyramid scheme, Pat...

^^Ally McBeal^^ By Samantha Paynter Ally is seeing a new psychiatrist. Billy Thomas is in group therapy. This week's theme on...