RIVERSIDE - A state appellate panel has affirmed a teen-age boy's conviction of unlawful peeking, finding that prosecutors wer...

LOS ANGELES - Paul Caruso, a titan in the Los Angeles criminal defense bar and a founding member of the Italian American Lawye...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Monday for David M. Durst, a retired Santa Monica Municipal Court commissioner. Durst d...

SAN FRANCISCO - The next city attorney will not be named Morales, Holtzman, Connolly, Harris, Yaki, Katz, Conroy, Keane, Knox,...

SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Ventura County judge who was suspended from the bench in 1999 for drunken misconduct is not entitled...

SAN JOSE - Networking firm Redback Networks has sued a competitor and two of its former engineers for trade-secrets theft, all...

LOS ANGELES - By the time a jury awarded him $3.8 million in damages stemming from his 1991 beating by Los Angeles Police Depa...

SAN FRANCISCO - A farmer who plows too deeply can be subject to heavy fines under the federal Clean Water Act for destroying w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers are filing more asbestos suits than ever, according to a study scheduled to be released today. But the...

Take his day job. Please. When a disgruntled, mentally unbalanced client stabbed him in the chest with an ice pick in 1987, cr...

WASHINGTON - Trying to balance the public's right to see federal court files and privacy concerns in the Internet age, a commi...

LOS ANGELES - Bankruptcy lawyers and judges fear that a trio of provisions in the Bankruptcy Reform Act awaiting final action ...

Lawyers call full-time Earl Willen "the gentleman mediator": diplomatic yet relentless, no hard sell when a soft push will wor...

Here's a test: Picture a drug dealer. What image comes to mind: A burly, tattooed biker? An inner-city African-American teen-a...

SB823 would have a significant impact on the cost of compliance by shifting a portion of that cost to the managed-care and ins...

With only three other cases on the court's calendar, Paul Kiesel expected to find a seat when he arrived 10 minutes before his...

In Foxgate Homeowners' Association v. Bramalea California , S087319 (Cal. July 9, 2001), the California Supreme Court t...

The greatest year in the history of American films was 1939. "Gone with the Wind" won the Academy Award that year, beating out...

While a trial court may handle a construction-defect case from beginning to end, a mediator or special referee can cut time an...

LOS ANGELES - Opting not to appeal a jury verdict, the Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to pay $3.75 million in a settle...

Whether it's arguing before a jury or using the latest in computer technology to get a point across, Paul R. Kiesel has a knac...

In a perfect world, everyone gets what he or she wants and lives happily ever after. We all know that this is far from reality...

LOS ANGELES - Hate chads? So do Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Matthew Monforton and several of his political-jun...

RIVERSIDE - The state Supreme Court has cleared the way for Riverside County's lawsuit against the California Department of Tr...

SAN JOSE - A San Francisco business software company filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday accusing the chief technology officer of ...

LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday called for the ouster of Los Angeles Unified School District Super...

SAN FRANCISCO - One week and a day after staging a lunch-hour protest outside the San Francisco Superior Court, a union repres...

LOS ANGELES - The county Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved paying $27 million to settle five class actions in which former...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that would impose strict new limits on prenuptial agreements is on the verge of passing the state Legis...

SAN FRANCISCO - A nearly deaf man may pursue disability discrimination claims against Kitsap County, Wash., and three "disabil...