Bleak as the unlicensed contractor's position may be with respect to payment for the work, he or she is not left in a complete...

Rian Jones, noted for his calm personality, loves to fight the good fight. In court, that is. "My role as a defense attorney i...

LOS ANGELES - Pillsbury Winthrop's local office has recruited corporate partner Anna Graves from Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Ja...

SAN BERNARDINO - Assistant Presiding Judge J. Michael Welch will take over as San Bernardino County's presiding judge in Janua...

The court found that the written contingency agreements were unenforceable because the firm had never registered as a law corp...

SANTA ANA - The 2000-2001 Orange County grand jury, headed by the first African-American foreperson in a decade, stepped down ...

When one business buys another, what comes in the bargain is the other business' goodwill. But what if a business comes with s...

SANTA ANA - A former Best Buy supervisor injured by a falling appliance has filed suit in Orange County Superior Court, claimi...

LOS ANGELES - Jody "Babydol" Gibson, the fledgling pop singer who is in state prison for running a high-class call-girl servic...

Recently, the worlds of professional sports and civil rights law collided in the case of PGA Tour v. Martin. Because th...

Alan I. Rothenberg has spent the last 37 years accomplishing a lot as both an attorney and a businessman. He presided over the...

The right to a jury is a valued right -- but at the same time, considerations of judicial resources, of the parties' expense a...

SAN JOSE - Quashing speculation about his political future, Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy says he will r...

SAN FRANCISCO - The three key players in the Scorpion Technologies securities fraud case have agreed to plead guilty to a cons...

SACRAMENTO - In a dramatic turn of events, a trial judge on Monday dismissed the criminal charges supporting the state Supreme...

SAN FRANCISCO - A public memorial observance will be held in San Francisco for Justice Stanley Mosk, who died June 19 at age 8...

SACRAMENTO - In a closely watched case that pits gender equality against religious freedom, a state appellate court held Monda...

SAN FRANCISCO - The beleaguered local office of Baker & McKenzie has lost another top partner with at least four others ex...

LOS ANGELES - Suspension of disbelief, while a necessity for most Hollywood films, should not apply to Hollywood advertising, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A malpractice action against a criminal defense attorney cannot prevail unless the defendant's conviction is r...

LOS ANGELES - New Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn flew into office on Monday on the wings of metaphors about birds, bumblebees...

LOS ANGELES - A $100,000 settlement for a foster child who was raped, sexually exploited, beaten and emotionally abused as an ...

There are lines in the moral and political world that law ignores at its peril. Cases illustrating that point, everywhere toda...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County and Superior Court officials will discuss how to prevent further suicides today after a fatal...

The Los Angeles litigators at Murchison & Cumming brought William DelHagen into the partnership last Monday. DelHagen, a L...

Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard is adding seven lawyers, all from that city's Knapp Marsh Jones & Doran...

When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers issued seven new general top-level domain names in November, it t...

Summer associates are well-schooled in the obvious "don'ts" for their first season at a law firm: Put that whiskey flask away ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking a break from corporate litigation, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison attorneys Tim Meltzer and Michael Ad...