Much ink has been used trying to make sense of the Genoa anti-globalization riots last month. Many conservative pundits in the...

While the cases arguably might be harmonized based on procedural grounds, the two courts take fundamentally different position...

A couple of articles that I recently read have prompted me to offer an insider's view on the state of medical care in the Cali...

SACRAMENTO - For weeks, Sen. Martha Escutia, D-Whittier, has resisted pressure from the high-tech industry to weaken her bill ...

It's fall recruiting season, and recruiters and law students are meeting to find out whether the students' talents match the f...

There are three necessary components to accumulating wealth: a proper state of mind, making money and then keeping the money. ...

LOS ANGELES - Manatt Phelps & Phillips has rounded out a month of attorney acquisitions by snapping up two entertainment t...

The May issue of Scientific American informs the reader of a Web site where one can download two programs that unscramble DVD ...

LOS ANGELES - Three siblings who allegedly were victims of physical and psychological abuse while living in the home of a prom...

LOS ANGELES - Shoes covered in thin paper booties, a group of mostly first-time drunken-driving offenders shuffled silently th...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that shifts the boundaries of free speech, a divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that te...

SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday named three women to judicial positions, elevating one to an appellate court and appo...

LOS ANGELES - Legalizing Mexican workers in the United States and investing U.S. dollars in Mexico is the best policy for econ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart has found a supervising partner for its employment and labo...

The California Supreme Court's decision in Merrill v. Navegar Inc. holding that gun manufacturers may not be sued for t...

If you handle your reduction in force correctly, you can turn your former employees into your best salespeople. ...

LOS ANGELES - An African-American switchboard operator has sued the Antelope Valley School District, saying she was subjected ...

Culture is a very complex and powerful factor in determining the outcome of many trials. The cultural composition of the jury ...

LOS ANGELES - A special-education teacher who smothered a rabbit in a plastic bag in front of his pupils was acquitted Tuesday...

The California Supreme Court, in Merrill v. Navegar Inc ., has insulated from liability a gun manufacturer that sold wh...

Determining whether employees are exempt from certain wage-and-hour laws is not easy. Determining when an employer can dock an...

LOS ANGELES - One is the loneliest number, just ask James Loss. He is the last Riordan & McKinzie partner remaining in Ora...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors will ask the state Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's ruling that grand juries cannot indict m...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A woman charged with attempted murder for shutting off a dying cancer patient's respirator will face additi...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has picked up two new partners, an antitrust litigator and a labor an...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that revamps the process for resolving construction defect disputes has cleared a key legislative committe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie, a Seattle firm with aspirations for prominence in the Silicon Valley, has landed another intelle...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Medi-Cal patients can sue health care provider...

LOS ANGELES - In the first conviction since the Los Angeles County district attorney reactivated a program that dispatches pro...