LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction and death sentence of a Los Angeles man who robbe...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury on Thursday awarded $3.6 million in damages to a former Los Angeles Police Department civilian em...
SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly approved a sweeping new substance-abuse program for attorneys Thursday as the State Bar's chi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has adopted a plan to better screen incoming cases so that the justices are more...
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LAUSD Wins 10-Year-Old Claim on Hotel Repayment
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court cleared another hurdle in the Los Angeles Unified School District's attempts to either a...
The opening statement is the most important part of trial. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Siblings Margaret and Daniel Draves never knew they had a half-brother - until he died without a will and the...
SACRAMENTO - Outside the broad glass facade of the modern building that houses the 3rd District Court of Appeal, one can gaze ...
Each year, 4,000 electronic messages are sent to the State Bar from financial institutions reporting an overdraft or dishonore...
Allowing for attorney fees as costs becomes especially important in contingent-fee cases, where the possibility of a multiplie...
LOS ANGELES - Downey- and Irvine-based Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle has united with Long Beach firm Cayer Kilstofte & Cra...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Brisgaard, which recently added seven lawyers from boutique Knapp...
The University of Southern California Law School graduated its first class 100 years ago. During the century that followed, th...
California courts have recognized that liability insurance carriers are obligated to pay attorney-fee awards that the insured ...
Taking control of time is the best way to shorten a workday. ...
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday disbarred a Sacramento attorney who in the past year has helped establ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Clinton-era policy, long criticized by environmentalists for enabling federal officials to stall formal rec...
SAN FRANCISCO - New York megafirm Jacoby & Meyers has claimed that two Northern California lawyers stole clients and trade...
LOS ANGELES - The battle over patients' rights legislation that opened this week in the U.S. Senate could foreshadow the 2004 ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Trademark Law 101, Lesson 1: Before you develop a new product and engage in an expensive marketing blitz, bett...
SAN FRANCISCO - Placing a classified ad on the Internet in order to carry out a fraud constitutes a "mass-marketing" solicita...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's intermediate courts of appeal are the logical place that Gov. Gray Davis would look for someone t...
David J. Duchrow of Los Angeles' Duchrow & Barker reached a $135,000 settlement in a recent wrongful-termination case, ...
Perhaps the most significant step so far was the decision to implement the final regulations on patient privacy protections. ...
A former steel mill summer employee, now a high-flying state, federal and appellate advocate, Jeffrey Davidson fights for the ...
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for a 15-year-old boy accused of two murders in the Santee high school shootings are asking appellate jus...
The distinction between public services and private contracts should not be so easily blurred by cities simply for economic re...
Steven R. Cerveris is so serious about dispute resolution, he'll play landscape architect, dispense chocolates and do just abo...
How often do most lawyers have dinner with two or three prominent judges? How many times can they say they shared "trade secre...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Pasadena attorney Glenn Edwin Mayfield has died. Mayfield died June 11 of pneumonia and complications of...