LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has turned down a wealthy physician's attempt to divide his marriage assets under Islami...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced a Van Nuys criminal defense attorney to five years' probation Frida...

LOS ANGELES - In the first courtroom trial of a tire tread-separation lawsuit since the Ford-Firestone recall, jurors on Frida...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Vaughn J. Walker's activist attitude toward fee awards in securities class actions spelled...

WASHINGTON - New York boxing promoter Cedric Kushner was looking forward to the September 1998 bout between his heavyweight, H...

Shrinkwrap agreements challenge the traditional understanding of contract formation in a retail sale of goods.

The justices this week will hear these cases:

"Matters of principle" can jeopardize the whole negotiation. If your opponent is immovable on a deal point as a matter of prin...

As the dot-com buildup unwinds, employment attorneys see an increasing number of claims of fraudulent inducement. ...

LOS ANGELES - After years of a runaway bull market, the 1995 law designed to reduce the number of frivolous, shareholder class...

A pop quiz: Quick! Name the industry with the following characteristics: Products from this industry range in price, but can g...

On March 7, Democratic lawmakers in the Assembly announced that their top priority would be to reform the state's foster-care ...

The only things sure in life are death and taxes, or so goes the old saying. However, another sure thing is that the Internal ...

Forget checkers, chess, cards, Pac Man and Nintendo. The game of the 21st Century is about to be publicly released and, like s...

It began as a story about a team of investment bankers who break away from an established brokerage house to start their own f...

The Supreme Court counseled trial courts to consider the degree to which the legal market already compensates for the Serrano ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Civil rights attorneys have hailed a ruling in a massive education lawsuit that targets decrepit and overcrowd...

The West Coast may be the place for entrepreneurs to strike gold - of the precious metal or dot-com variety - but for investor...

Employee stock-ownership plans can cut significantly the costs of financing the purchase of stock. ...

LOS ANGELES - Charles M. Walker, a prominent Los Angeles tax attorney who worked under President Ford as the assistant secreta...

RIVERSIDE - It would have been a messy escape attempt. But pawing through the contents of the toilet bowl is the only way Rive...

VICTORVILLE - A San Bernardino County commissioner has denied a motion for summary judgment by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Co...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer accused of sending threatening e-mails to opposing counsel in Los Angeles and San Diego probably suffer...

LOS ANGELES - Kristina Tapia considers herself a normal 17-year-old, an 11th-grader who is looking forward to college but who ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Navy Commander Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is an ace-pilot-turned-lawyer who plays fast and loose with the rules as...

LOS ANGELES - Reg Fudge Jr. started his 40s as a car salesman and his 50s as a criminal defense lawyer. By his mid-50s, he had...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court opinion published this week will strengthen the rights of California property owners in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the eve of the arraignment in San Francisco's fatal dog-mauling case, the city's public defender's office a...

SAN FRANCISCO - In Stanislaus County's 61-year-old courthouse, the antiquated heating and air conditioning systems leave emplo...

LOS ANGELES - High-school shootings and defamation lawsuits against informants have led California legislators to seek liabili...