DENVER - Thousands of American lawyers will step up to represent the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the largest ...

DENVER - After the Sept. 11 attacks, Americans gave unprecedented amounts of money to charities to help the victims. At the sa...

DENVER - The nation's first state-established victim-compensation program already is processing claims from Sept. 11 victims. ...

Counsel and parties in settlement negotiations often balk, saying they won't negotiate against themselves. They usually object...

On cross-examination, the attorney got a defense witness to concede that the employer had a "lousy" record of promoting women ...

Beverly Hills attorney Gary A. Dordick may be one of the few lawyers in Southern California to have attended law school withou...

Jennifer Joyce doesn't like to hear the story of how, when she was 13, she was hit by a car while crossing the street to enter...

LONG BEACH - Newport Beach-based Lyon Capital Ventures purchased the Pacific Holiday Towers apartment complex from PHT Limite...

"Daddy litigators," not just "mommy" trial lawyers, must make adjustments in their practices and lives to accommodate the dema...

SAN FRANCISCO - Angela Bradstreet has said she will focus her one-year term as president of the Bar Association of San Francis...

LOS ANGELES - Latham & Watkins has closed more deals over $500 million in North America and Latin America than any other g...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to rename the downtown civil courthouse in...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant expansion of the right to sue under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, a federal appea...

LOS ANGELES - A former legal enforcer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has joined the Los Angeles office of Hol...

SAN FRANCISCO - After four years of mandatory treatment, serial rapist Patrick Ghilotti was cleared this summer by a judge to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Faced with the dilemma of paying for $5 billion worth of overdue repairs for the state's crumbling courthouses...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place on Thursday for Abraham Gorenfeld, a lawyer known for fighting the establishment, who l...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court judges have elected Referee Mitchell Beckloff as the court's newest commissioner. Bec...

LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge Tuesday granted bail for two Pakistani students who were picked up after Sept. 11 and...

SAN JOSE - San Jose has agreed to pay $500,000 to a former city attorney's office investigator and his attorneys to settle a s...

It's been another year of significant developments in ADR practice. Important court decisions have affected the confidentialit...

One year ago tonight, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its momentous decision in Bush v. Gore , 531 U.S. 98 (2000). Al Gor...

WASHINGTON - In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore , some states have moved toward reforming th...

LOS ANGELES - Mary L. Walker, a former partner of San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, was to be sworn in today as ...

CORONA - LaSalle Investment Management Inc., a Chicago-based REIT, has purchased the Country Hills Apartments, a 412-unit com...

MONTEREY - Once a year, Justice Richard D. Huffman of the 4th District Court of Appeal assigns himself to a trial court "as a ...

LOS ANGELES - Special Assistant City Attorney Ben Austin will leave his post as communications director for City Attorney Rock...

SAN FRANCISCO - Baseball is so important, a unanimous state appellate court ruled Monday, that public demand for its images, s...

LOS ANGELES - California's wannabe lawyers will have to struggle and sweat through three days of Bar Exam for the foreseeable ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has hired away D. Stanley Rowland, a partn...