The open-source community finds itself in a precarious position. On one hand, developers who share the source code for their s...

LOS ANGELES - Like fireflies to a light, except perhaps in reverse, California's lawyers have found their next full-employment...

In the 1998 action thriller, "Enemy of the State," actor Will Smith was hunted down by Washington bureaucrats who wanted a hig...

Although police counsel people never to chase after criminals, sometimes one can catch a thief. Just before 2 p.m. on May 17, ...

Although there is more tolerance for career moves these days, prospective employers remain wary of candidates who move too oft...

LOS ANGELES - The American Jewish Committee presented Latham & Watkins partner Barry Sanders with its Learned Hand Award o...

Recent decisions by the U.S. and California Supreme Courts mark a trend to eliminate jury trials in employment disputes. The d...

The "fair use" doctrine in copyright law allows the copying of creative works without the permission of the author for limited...

The landowner could not show that he had a vested right to foliage of a certain height or to a fixed amount of utility charges...

Representing a client in an Internal Revenue Service audit can be a stressful experience because an attorney must often manag...

Medical researchers have launched a new research studying a device that they hope will improve the image of silicone implants....

LOS ANGELES - Milo V. Olson, a Los Angeles civil trial attorney who once served as special assistant to the U.S. attorney gene...

SEAL BEACH - DNA has linked a Florida inmate to the 1980 sex assault and killing of a 70-year-old Seal Beach woman, authoritie...

SANTA ANA - A senior Orange County deputy public defender is questioning why the district attorney's office tipped off a count...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Rejecting a college's effort to trademark its nickname, a judge has allowed a store to continue selling unli...

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Richard J. Riordan today will unveil a nearly $5 billion budget that not only adds funding to the Police D...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas E. Workman Jr., a former partner with Pillsbury Winthrop, died of lung cancer Wednesday at his South Pasa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Boies, Schiller & Flexner, the New York law firm made famous by its work on behalf of former presidential...

LOS ANGELES - Trotting out an economic study predicting billions of dollars in losses, Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Forces promoting the recall of Marin County District Attorney Paula Kamena have broadened their attack with ac...

SAN FRANCISCO - Faculty members at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school have endorsed the hiring of a University of Minnesota e...

President George W. Bush's proposed 2002 budget introduced last week intends to eliminate $207 million, or 15 percent, from th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take up the case of a criminal defendant who complains he was...

Among the cases that have addressed the issue, there generally are three varying standards for determining 'manifest intent.' ...

Increasingly, clients are pursuing claims against their former attorneys seeking potentially massive damages for insurance-rel...

SAN FRANCISCO - An East Oakland landlord must pay $500,000 to 35 tenants to settle a lawsuit claiming rat and cockroach infest...

LOS ANGELES - George Thomas Callanan, a former name partner at Stockwell, Kending & Callanan, has died. Callanan, who also...

Hockey is among my 12 or 14 favorite sports. Imagine my delight, then, when a colleague invited me to join him and two former ...

Angelo Ancheta's book represents one of the most comprehensive and insightful contributions by a new generation of Asian-Ameri...

LOS ANGELES - A former court-appointed conservator and trustee convicted of stealing nearly $2 million from the estate of the ...