The formal settlement conference. We all know that the reasonable resolution of a lawsuit is in the best interest of all parti...

Everyone who has an individual retirement account is required to follow the Internal Revenue Service rules in taking money out...

Can litigation damages awarded to a plaintiff (punitive or compensatory) be assigned to a third party without creating income ...

Retired state appellate Justice Clinton White, a mentor to black Bay Area attorneys who was known for his booming voice and d...

Cash-flow problems can be a law firm's downfall. Nearly every firm faces a situation where expenses are incurred before revenu...

The profile on U.S. Department of Justice lawyer Michael Gennaco appearing in the Daily Journal (David Houston, "Gentle Demean...

LOS ANGELES - Michael A. Kilroy, a veteran judge advocate with the U.S. Air Force, joins the civilian ranks with his recent ap...

LOS ANGELES - Officials at beleaguered Southern California Edison said that a creditor's recent move to freeze funds in an Edi...

SAN DIEGO - A day after an appellate court ruling limited the use of such records, two private criminal defense groups announ...

LOS ANGELES - When a burly man dressed in a bright red zoot suit wheeled 20 United States Mint sacks into a Century City lawye...

Accused prosecutor Charles "Mad Dog" Kirk and death row prisoner Larry Roberts both got good news in a judge's findings follow...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place June 1 for Robert MacDonald Fisk, an estate planning and probate attorney for more tha...

The good news for plaintiffs' attorneys, and for all litigants seeking a fair shake at trial, is that the California Legislatu...

WASHINGTON - To paraphrase the late Justice Potter Stewart's famous line on obscenity, the current Supreme Court justices "lik...

LOS ANGELES - Sole practitioner Ken Meyer, a former senior executive vice president for Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, has joined the S...

As my grandfather would say, "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Of course, he often said this while wearing his un...

It is time to enact a uniform statewide spousal support formula for temporary spousal support, just as exists with child suppo...

In an important ruling originally arising in California, the National Labor Relations Board has made it more difficult for a c...

LOS ANGELES - There oughta be a law, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said Wednesday as he revealed the resu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Remarks ranged from angry four-letter invective to heartfelt absolution Wednesday at the sentencing hearing f...

Employers soon may find it is easier to preserve the at-will nature of the employment relationship. By having employees sign ...

LOS ANGELES - Hugh Miles Raskoff, a corporate attorney and advocate for the underprivileged, has died. Raskoff died Monday at ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich is trying to get out of the startup company advice business. Law...

SAN BERNARDINO - Superior Court Judge James A. Edwards said he had a "Hobson's Choice" in deciding how to sentence a teen-age...

LOS ANGELES - In a rare turnabout this week, the INS has agreed to allow Antonio "Tony" Alvarado-Torres to remain free while ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four California Supreme Court justices with stock investments in large corporations have participated in 32 ca...

LOS ANGELES - Beware: litigious podiatrist. That warning probably addresses anyone who contemplates tangling with Garey Lee We...

LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that clarifies that in-house lawyers are people too, a state appellate court ruled Wednesday that in...

James Lopes, a partner of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco, has been inducted as a Fellow to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether San Francisco tenants can block a landlord's ...