SACRAMENTO - While the Supreme Court addresses an important punitive damages issue, a tort reform group in California is spons...

WASHINGTON - Tim Leatherman, co-founder and president of Portland, Ore.-based Leatherman Tool Group, got an unpleasant surpris...

Emotions run pretty high when people talk about Napster. Either you love the service, finding yourself losing sleep to the und...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place for retired Los Angeles attorney Gloria J. Farquar Van Dyk. Van Dyk died Feb. 3 of cong...

The ability to listen to and download music over the Internet currently is one of the hottest topics in the entertainment indu...

Mike Tribble is just the kind of man high-tech companies want on their side. As a software developer, Tribble writes programs ...

SACRAMENTO - In an austere room lacking the nail-biting spectators, balloons and flashing lights that typically accompany a s...

PASADENA - A memorial service will take place Saturday for retired Pasadena Municipal Court Judge Samuel L. Laidig. Laidig die...

SAN FRANCISCO - A hearing officer Thursday ordered the destruction of Hera, one of the dogs involved in the mauling death of ...

The State Bar these days, unlike the Tareyton smokers in the old cigarette ad, would rather switch than fight. Last month, the...

There's a lot in the newspapers these days about rude lawyers and about how lawyers can do a better job of being civil to each...

Millions of Netizens held their breath last week as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rendered its long-anticipated decisi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gordon & Rees, a firm best-known as a statewide litigation shop, announced that it has acquired a small S...

Effective last Oct. 1, the federal Electronic Signatures and Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq.,...

A recently concluded wireless-spectrum auction raked in a record amount of money, but not without raising a host of legal issu...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association has formally opposed an American Bar Association proposal to encourage st...

SANTA ANA - A judge will decide today whether prosecutors have enough evidence to proceed with the case against an Orange Coun...

PASADENA - Colleagues of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg on Thursday described the embattled jurist as "ou...

RIVERSIDE - A 77-year-old man who chained his emaciated granddaughter to a bed may avoid state prison after pleading guilty to...

SANTA ANA - Orange County officials will have to abide by voter-approved Measure H and spend most of the county's millions in ...

LOS ANGELES - In a symposium Wednesday evening with Elian Gonzalez's lawyers about U.S. asylum laws, Rabbi Harold Schulweis su...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public hospitals can't sue the tobacco industry to recoup the costs of treating smokers' illnesses, the 9th U...

LOS ANGELES - Reyna Maria Luis-Aquino was in bed when the house began to shake. The 16-year-old student thought it was an eart...

LOS ANGELES - Once upon a time in Rainbow Land, a cheerful little sprite named Rainbow Brite donned colorful outfits and main...

SACRAMENTO - If pride goes before a fall, it seems reasonable to infer that vanity plates reading "TRU LIEZ" can go before a ...

The clich of the skateboard-riding, bubble-gum-chewing, barely shaving dot-commer is not dead. Case in point: 16-year-olds And...

The great majority of attorneys come to the negotiation table without solid negotiation training or experience. As a result, s...

LOS ANGELES - Charlre-L Jackson would do just about anything to play in the WNBA - even move 120 miles to play at a new high s...

For most of the past decade, startup and emerging-growth companies rode an unprecedented wave of expansion. Amid almost daily ...

LOS ANGELES - Chicago's Sidley & Austin and New York's Brown & Wood announced Wednesday that they will combine forces....