SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court overturned a decade-old Oakland murder conviction Wednesday because a defense lawyer f...

In today's society, uninsured or underinsured motorists are becoming increasingly more prevalent. Studies suggest that as many...

Many courts have held that 'misappropriation of ... style of doing business' is synonymous with trade dress.

The elusive corporate counsel! Most business litigators want to get in front of corporate counsel, if not become one. But how ...

If the American proponents of the International Criminal Court envisioned by the Rome Statute prevail, American servicemen and...

Jurors in civil cases have a sense of "mission." They take their tasks seriously, believing that the verdict they render reach...

Jeffrey Cabot Myers of McKay, Byrne & Graham in Los Angeles won a defense verdict in a car accident case, Manoukyan v. Whi...

On Feb. 11, 2000, a twentysomething man in San Jose climbed out of his truck on the freeway and approached a car driven by a w...

SAN FRANCISCO - A suit filed Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court charges California's 160,000 prison inmates are endangere...

Childhood hurt can leave indelible impressions. In Frank Kaplan's case, it became a cause. Kaplan, 54, a partner in the Los An...

Linda Meyer sweats the "soft stuff." Meyer is not content to let attorneys frame the issues while their clients silently view ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An intense debate over the amount of dioxin, considered one of the world's deadliest chemicals, that may be di...

Win or lose, a verdict is rarely the end of a case. More often, a verdict just signals a new phase in the litigation. Verdicts...

In their world, clients have influence. It doesn't matter whether the client is a blue-collar employee with a medical malpract...

The correction process is frequently overlooked as a viable alternative by parties who seek vacatur as their only remedy. ...

Is connectivity a beauty or a beast? Is it possible to be too connected? Is there a point of oversaturation? Will it ever be c...

SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly Judicial Committee passed a bill Tuesday that would reduce the legal challenges that public ut...

In the current film about the drug war, "Traffic," one character discusses the North American Free Trade Agreement as a boon f...

Litigation firms require an ongoing influx of new business in order to thrive. They must invest considerable time and effort i...

Imagine being an attorney on the receiving end of a $1-billionsettlement offer to your client. That's "billion" - with a "B." ...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for international law and commerce specialist John J. Baer. Baer, a linguist who serve...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan on Tuesday unveiled for the second time his attempt to get police Chief Ber...

RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to approve a countywide juvenile crime intervention progra...

LOS ANGELES - Downtown Los Angeles, undergoing radical urban renewal efforts, will get the largest inner-city park in its hist...

LOS ANGELES - Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who led a commission that investigated the Los Angeles Police Depa...

LOS ANGELES - A woman who suffered debilitating injuries in 1996 when the tread on one of her car tires separated, causing her...

SACRAMENTO - A bill to grant new rights to domestic partners cleared a key legislative panel Tuesday, following emotional test...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar Board of Governors elected Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Karen S. Nobumoto on Tuesda...

SAN FRANCISCO - While the big law firms typically report their lawyers and profits-per on an August to August year, a survey t...

SAN FRANCISCO - In another complication for an already long-delayed case, former chief assistant public defender Jeff Adachi h...