Forum Column - By Charles B. Parselle - The Southern California Mediation Association is the premier mediator organization in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judges may decide, without juries, whether a past crime qualifies as a strike under California's three-strikes...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal in a San Diego gay adoption case that once threatened to dera...

There's a difference between picking pockets and robbing someone, and that's fear, an appellate panel ruled Monday. ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has brought its first enforcement action under the 2001 Patriot Act, accusing a Los An...

LOS ANGELES - A Southern California lawyer has agreed to plead guilty to charges of funneling $3.5 million in kickbacks from s...

SAN FRANCISCO - A dispute is brewing between the Judicial Council and the California Judges Association over the council's rec...

WASHINGTON - When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed earlier this year to decide a technical case concerning a lethal injection exe...

Commissioner Graciela L. Freixes, who was elected a Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner last year, said her new ass...

Marla is a manufacturer of widgets. Larry is a lawyer who regularly represents Marla in legal matters relating to her manufact...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Large chunks of the case are invisible or stealthy, like some modern aircraft that don't register o...

Harvesting lettuce at 15 and paying his way through school as a restaurant cook were important life lessons for Justice Nathan...

Re: Hensen v. Build a Burger Our firm represents Gail Hensen in an action against Build a Burger (Burger), the regional fast ...

SAN FRANCISCO - What do Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, constitutional law scholar Kathleen Sullivan, Oakland Mayor Je...

Deft saw Oscar, a uniformed police officer, attempting to arrest Friend, who was resisting arrest. Believing that Oscar was ar...

By Deborah Schneider - It's hardly a news flash that lawyers are unhappy (half of all lawyers are said to be dissatisfied ...

Washington & Sheehan, LLP 1000 Greenpoint Ave. Valley Stream, Columbia 09546 MEMORANDUM To: Applicant From: Jonat...

Autos, Inc. manufactures a two-seater convertible, the Roadster. The Roadster has an airbag for each seat. Autos, Inc. was awa...

By Valerie Fontaine During law school, the running joke was that we each had received sufficient rejection letters from pot...

Pat, a resident of State A, received a letter from Busco, a tour bus company that had been in business for about two months. B...

Tim and Anna were married for 10 years. In 2000, their marriage was legally dissolved. For several months following the dissol...

Mike had a 30-year master lease on a downtown office building and had sublet to others the individual office suites for five-y...

Focus Column - By Michael Shimokaji and Yasuko Ogawa - Recently, a New York district court held that a prior user of a non-reg...

THE NEW LAWYER - Craig W. Ching felt like he was holding his breath all day Friday nervously awaiting the results of the Febru...

By Laura Seraso During the past few years, you have made great strides toward realizing your ambitions: graduated from law ...

By Sara Berman-Barrett Here are some frequently asked questions - and answers - about law school, the State Bar Exam and th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fresh off his second, two-year tour of duty on Latham & Watkins' executive committee, Scott R. Haber inher...

WASHINGTON - It's been 10 years since a California federal judge helped the judiciary brush off calls for an independent ethic...

SANTA CRUZ - Santa Cruz Superior Court Judge Robert B. Yonts Jr. faced an unusual problem shortly after Gov. Pete Wilson appoi...

Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - The following text is from the student speech given at Sunday's (May 21) graduation ceremony...