LOS ANGELES - A 14-year-old boy who says he was sexually molested in foster care cannot sue the County of Los Angeles for negl...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has signed a bill into law enabling court interpreters to become employees with full benefits and...

Focus Column - By David B. Porter - Historically, when a taxpayer had a controversy with the Internal Revenue Service that cou...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge decided Monday to withhold a final ruling on dismissal of a class action that contends adve...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Monday to amend a controversial ordinance limiting tenancies in c...

WASHINGTON - When the Supreme Court officially opens its 2002-03 term Oct. 7, the justices will have on their plate an unusual...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Ralph R. Olson knocks 'em dead with a regular shtick he does in c...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Nickolas John Dibiaso was appointed to the 5th District Court of Appeal, then-presiding Justice George B...

SAN FRANCISCO - Legislation transferring ownership and management of California's 451 courthouses from the counties to the sta...

SANTA ANA - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has cleared Tony Rackauckas of allegations that he mishandled his duties ...

LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles men convicted with four others in a 1982 plot to bomb the office of a Turkish diplomat in Philad...

LOS ANGELES - After a prolonged battle in the California Legislature, Gov. Gray Davis has signed Laura's Law, which will allow...

Dicta Column - By Cassandra C. Shivers - As a litigator, much of your time is spent on the discovery phase of any given case. ...

Dicta Column - By Devallis Rutledge - The words "none" and "neither" lay traps for the unwary. That's because they typically p...

Forum Column - By Ana M. Storey and Jane S. Preece - Where can children be taken away from their parents without a fair hearin...

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Five loan officers from Orange County walked away happier from court than they had from their jobs. The quintet filed a wrongf...

With three attorneys in its new San Francisco office and nine more expected in the coming weeks, Chicago's Altheimer & Gra...

Venture Law Group officially pulled up stakes at its 12-attorney San Francisco office. The move, first reported in the Daily J...

A few months back, the Johnnie question came up at an Algonquin gathering of high-powered lawyers on Sunset Boulevard. The hea...

Gary Weiss says he received the perfect training for his position as partner in charge of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's...

Christine Scheuneman has moved her real estate practice from Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker to Pillsbury W...

Big-rig haulers cooling their Kenworths at an elaborate truck stop near Fresno probably have no clue that litigation has swirl...

John Tyndall III has returned from quasiretirement to try First Amendment, toxic tort and attorney malpractice cases with Waln...

A real estate financing technique that companies embraced in the boom times of the 1990s is becoming less common, industry exp...

Entry-level associate salaries saw little change for a second year in a row, according to the associate salary survey conducte...

They make appearances every day on legal television shows and movies, yet unless the viewer is an advocate, their significance...

In the wake of the events of Sept. 11, many businesses were hit hard by financial losses that came from closures, new security...

With its corporate practice faring better than many of its larger Bay Area competitors, San Francisco's Howard, Rice, Nemerovs...

Column by Scott Astle - Of the many forms of alternative dispute resolution, the most common are arbitration and mediation. Bo...