SAN FRANCISCO - Earth First post-trial settlement talks went nowhere this week as opposing counsel disputed a $4.4 million fed...

Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Unpublished appellate opinions generally may not be relied on for precedent or even c...

LOS ANGELES - The largest foster care system in the nation has racked up another embarrassing statistic: It has lost 444 of th...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has awarded $1.36 million to a 97-year-old Los Angeles woman severely injured when a Red Lin...

Column by Garry Abrams - The country's corporate scandals are beginning to resemble an episode of "The Simpsons" in which Bart...

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up an appeal from a Hollywood actor jailed on murder charges, the California Supreme Court ordered Los ...

Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - Lawyers are often portrayed in motion pictures as being incapable of true emo...

Dicta Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - What should a lawyer do on discovering that the terrific case just taken on is a dog a...

Focus Column - By Laura M. Grisolano and Catherine Valerio Barrad - Twenty years ago this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Michael Maroko - In 1996, the state Supreme Court in In Re Marriage of Burgess , 13...

LOS ANGELES - Continuing the defection of partners throughout its 11 offices, San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harri...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles chapter of American Friends of the Hebrew University has awarded its inaugural Harvey L. Silbert...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has signed several bills that for the first time would regulate alternative dispute resolution pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Medi-Cal's lack of a refund procedure mandated under federal law, coupled with a Catch-22 under state law, has...

LOS ANGELES - Jury participation in Los Angeles County and other large urban centers of California is in serious trouble becau...

LOS ANGELES - In a surprise move, Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a bill that would have protected lawyers for public agencies who repo...

SACRAMENTO - Consumers will suffer because Gov. Gray Davis has vetoed legislation that would have barred businesses from filin...

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services took place Tuesday for Harvey L. Silbert, a Los Angeles business and entertainment lawyer admi...

WASHINGTON - Returning from its summer recess, the Supreme Court announced Tuesday that, early next year, it will review two m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fulfilling a long-standing desire to build an employment practice, San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel ...

SAN FRANCISO - An attorney Tuesday admitted his client tried to set herself on fire in front of the deputy prime minister of V...

SANTA CLARA - Citing two appellate court decisions that he said left him no choice, a Santa Clara County judge Tuesday tossed ...

LOS ANGELES - As an undergraduate at Cornell University, Laurie D. Zelon monitored campus demonstrations. A member of the only...

LOS ANGELES - A trial court judge should look at the personnel records of three Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to deter...

SAN DIEGO - A biotechnology company that claimed a former worker stole trade secrets will get $1 million plus shares of stock ...

Focus Column - By James D. Nguyen - Barbie is no simple doll. She has become a cultural icon, loved for her Malibu lifestyle a...

Forum Column - By Jennifer C. Pizer - "First, do no harm." This fundamental command has guided physicians since Hippocrates. A...

LOS ANGELES - A former altar boy filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday, claiming he was molested from 1975...

LOS ANGELES - Claiming there is no budget shortfall, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employe...

Column by Garry Abrams - Class, today we're going to consider the legal duality of rock 'n' roll star Courtney Love. Is she a ...