The United States has struck back at terrorism. Although surgical strikes allegedly were aimed at military targets, early repo...

The proliferation of wage-and-hour class actions has transformed employee-rights law from a practice specialty into a cottage ...

The terrorist attacks that occurred exactly one month ago left indelible marks on employers throughout the country. Many compa...

Getting paid is usually up near the top of the priority list for most attorneys. Although most attorneys do some cases pro bon...

The Sept. 11th attacks manifested the hate of a few of the dispossessed against the leaders of liberal internationalism. The e...

Is it taking you three times as long as it usually does to write a contract or draft interrogatories, because you stop frequen...

SAN FRANCISCO - As hiring partners travel around the Bay Area this month looking for summer associates, they are likely to mis...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge flatly rejected a defense request Wednesday to pursue claims that federal prosecutors dispropo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether employers face retroactive liability under a n...

SAN JOSE - Thanks to a federal judge's ruling, plaintiffs attorneys in a class action against a medical device firm will go to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Filling vacancies created after a top assistant was appointed to the superior court last week, San Francisco D...

CORONADO - The streets of this generally raucous seaside town, home to the elite U.S. Navy SEALs, were largely deserted last w...

LOS ANGELES - Stockton firefighters Brett Alan Laws, 29, and Bryan Golden, 21, went into a burning house before dawn on Feb. 6...

SAN FRANCISCO - For decades, the nation's legal services program has been under fire from critics on both sides of the politic...

BARSTOW - In what could be the first verdict of its kind in California employment law, a jury has found the state Department o...

WASHINGTON - President Bush's offer Wednesday of a $5 million bounty for each of 22 "most wanted terrorists" brought mixed rea...

WASHINGTON - Continuing its strong support for arbitration, the Supreme Court on Wednesday indicated it will block the Equal E...

The neutral must direct the process so that the parties achieve in fact what they believe has occurred by their agreement. ...

Stress is a nonspecific response of the body to any demand made on it. The body responds to stress with an elaborate series of...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge refused Tuesday to throw out contempt-of-court charges against Deputy District Attorney M...

Have you received more than the usual junk mail lately? Lawyers have been hooked by federal privacy-disclosure legislation use...

Breaking up any relationship is hard to do. But when attorneys go their separate ways the acrimony can reach epic proportions,...

For employers, the only constant is change. New rules are in effect regarding "reasonable accommodations" for "disabled" emplo...

Our civil-justice system should provide more-stringent protections to the most precious among us - our children. Our system of...

Watching attorneys use the law to attack one another after their firm splits apart can make any lawyer bitter and cynical abou...

A friend called to check in last week. We talked at length, like most of us do these days, about Sept. 11. We talked about the...

The foster-care system in the nation and in California has failed to protect one of the most underserviced and marginalized se...

LOS ANGELES - Security measures taken at Century City's twin towers have turned many lawyers and office employees into early b...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein said on Tuesday the government's war on terrorism probably will demand more district court ...

LOS ANGELES - If there is any truth to the axiom "a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind," white-collar criminal defense attorn...