LOS ANGELES - An anthrax dump site on the other side of the world soon will be secure, thanks in part to the work of three stu...

LOS ANGELES - In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the area governed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...

City officials in Detroit and Auburn Hills, Mich., don't have to go very deep to get in touch with their inner totalitarian. D...

LOS ANGELES - Gary Apfel walked away from New York's LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae 13 years ago. Now, he returns to the fi...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund and Irell & Manella argued Wednesday over whether to h...

Many litigators think of depositions primarily as a discovery tool. It's easy to see why.

Remember Sgt. Joe Friday of the old television series "Dragnet?" When the aging blonde witness at the crime scene would stray ...

Everyone's talking about terrorism these days, but my family and I have experienced terrorism up close and personal. We surviv...

LOS ANGELES - America Online Inc. is finding out it's all or nothing in a $47 million copyright-infringement case in Los Angel...

Mediation is a fact of life. Whether ordered by the court, selected by counsel or required by contract, mediation is a process...

LOS ANGELES - Child-support payments must be determined by actual income and cannot be calculated based on the perception of a...

SAN BERNARDINO - Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday appointed attorneys John M. Pacheco and Katrina West to the San Bernardino County ...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar has taken jurisdiction over the practice of a Brentwood trial attorney who is being investigated f...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - According to Superior Court Judge E. Jeffrey Burke, recording companies "deliberately" marketed the "repulsi...

In Lewis v. The State , 3 Ga.App. 322 (1907), Chief Judge Benjamin Harvey Hill held the following for the court, in per...

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that an employee-participation program that involved all workers in the company's...

I consider myself a classic marketing person. I am high-energy, passionate about my job and have attended time-management clas...

LOS ANGELES - A rosary will be said Friday and a requiem Mass celebrated Saturday for Jerome C. Byrne, a labor-and-employment...

LOS ANGELES - Richard H. Slivkin, a veteran attorney who represented some of Southern California's largest real estate develop...

On April 5, in a fit of attempted prescience, I wrote a column predicting that Sara Jane Olson would make a plea deal to settl...

LOS ANGELES - Jerome W. Shepard, a native Angeleno and civil litigator for more than 60 years, has died. Shepard died of heart...

Horseplay, as many parents will attest, is no laughing matter when someone gets hurt. However, it usually can be curtailed wit...

WASHINGTON - For 10 days, the nation's highest court hovered unscathed as the anthrax scare tightened its grip on Capitol Hill...

LOS ANGELES - California lawyers are older and more diverse than they were 10 years ago but not, overall, as rich as the publi...

Terrorists succeed when a democratic government turns on its own people or persists in policies that no longer are viable. Thi...

Anger, sorrow and fear hit us instantly when terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11. The emotional wound has hit u...

California State University men's sports, after being assaulted by feminist organizations, are instead ignoring the desires of...

The Ventura County Bar Association has named William H. Hair, 68, this year's recipient of its Ben E. Nordman Award. Hair, nam...

The private organization that assigns Internet domain names has appointed a partner from Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli ...