It may have been greed or power or lies. Any one of these could have trapped Helene Singer. But it was actually five large box...

Susan Cooley and Marc Sallus find insight in some unusual places. For Cooley, 48, it comes while kayaking off San Diego. ...

I am biased in favor of arbitration, as a theoretical and an empirical matter. Compared to litigation, it seems to me by far t...

For Gordon Reid Wallack, his family's 1967 move from Alabama to Beverly Hills was like moving to another country. Or like goin...

There is no greater gift an attorney can receive than the grateful handshake of a person whom he has helped. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government's top bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, calling Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s cust...

LOS ANGELES - A former dental assistant, a dental patient and consumer groups have sued the American and California dental ass...

SANTA ANA - The In-N-Out Burgers fast-food chain has sued Texas-based competitor Whataburger Inc. over its allegedly illegal u...

RIVERSIDE - The 4th District Court of Appeal has cleared the way for a lawsuit trying to kill a contract between the state and...

LOS ANGELES - Under the terms of a deal hammered out between the Bush administration and California's two Democratic senators,...

SEATTLE - An employer discriminates against women if it excludes birth-control pills from its health insurance plan, a federal...

SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly Judiciary Committee, in a move to force action on California's energy crisis, approved a bill ...

LOS ANGELES - Guy N. Halgren has been elected the first San Diego partner to chair Los Angeles-based Sheppard, Mullin, Richter...

The federal government's top bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, calling Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s customers "captives...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's payback time in the aftermath of the antagonistic and unsuccessful Marin County recall campaign against D...

LOS ANGELES - On the desk in financier Gerald L. Parsky's West Los Angeles office are large stacks of documents, each represen...

LOS ANGELES - One of the world's largest commercial real estate service companies did not retaliate against the company's form...

The parties' power to choose an arbitrator extends not just to the selection of a sole arbitrator, but also to the decision to...

Armato found Section 664.6 perfectly suited to modify child-support orders, implementing the preference of the Legislature for...

Although the bar passage rate is usually under half, partners speak of bar-failers as if they were as rare as lightning-strike...

In times of war, it is considered not only acceptable but heroic to kill as many of the enemy as possible. Soldiers receive aw...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge dismissed a Long Beach attempted-murder case case Monday on grounds that a Los Angeles po...

SAN FRANCISCO - An unusual joint prosecution by District Attorney Terence Hallinan and City Attorney Louise Renne has resulted...

The bad, though not surprising, news from the Supreme Court last month is that the justices, in an opinion written by Justice ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After serving more than 15 years of a life sentence for a notorious double murder in Santa Clara County, Glen ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Judge Patrick Couwenberg, facing removal from the bench, suffers from a mental condition that caus...

LOS ANGELES - Commanding a courtroom for perhaps the last time, former personal injury attorney James H. Davis gestured wildly...

SAN DIEGO - Lawyers who filed a class-action, price-fixing complaint against California's nine largest gasoline providers are ...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial will take place June 30 for Administrative Law Judge William Francis Byrnes, who served at the state ...

RIVERSIDE - A foster father was convicted of second-degree murder, assault and child endangerment Monday for failing to act wh...