SANTA ANA - An Orange County woman has sued Disneyland, claiming she hurt her shoulder while putting her daughter on a ride th...

LOS ANGELES - The Regents of the University of California have extended a plan to guarantee top-performing high-school student...

I recently read an article about a Silicon Valley law firm that claims to receive more than 10,000 inquiries a year from poten...

Law firms increased associate salaries this year in the hopes of countering the lure of startup companies in emerging fields. ...

All of the hoopla surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in the presidential election has overshadowed other questiona...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Maurice F. Twitchell, longtime Santa Maria attorney and partner at Twitchell and R...

An employer must identify and provide, on a preferential basis, permanent alternative employment that meets the employee's res...

Finding the truth in a full hearing with all witnesses present is of paramount importance in family law cases. Failing to find...

LOS ANGELES - Although boosters dubbed it a resounding success, economists and First Amendment advocates said the Democratic N...

SAN FRANCISCO - A key decision announced Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department clears the way for the official unification ...

Acting on behalf of a Silicon Valley startup that it refused to name, a law firm has asked the Justice Department to investiga...

LOS ANGELES - Somewhere between a mensch and a schnorrer stands famed palimony lawyer Marvin M. Mitchelson. Not that he falls ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was a tax deduction any dummy could love, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned thumbs down on i...

LOS ANGELES - Ben Gales strode into the welfare office on a quiet, grimy street near downtown's industrial district, armed wit...

LOS ANGELES - The smell wafting across Los Angeles this week is from the rotting corpse of the criminal justice system. Even i...

SAN FRANCISCO - There's nothing like the New Year to inspire people to indulge in fortunetelling. In keeping with this oracula...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been a very big year for the nation's largest federal appeals court. Most of its vacancies were filled an...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two of San Francisco's largest firms recently announced their 2001 partner rosters. Recent years have been goo...

LOS ANGELES - Substance abuse is the subject of the Jan. 10 dinner meeting of the L.A. West American Inn of Court. The program...

Jafar Siddiq Hamzah, a U.S. resident and head of the New York-based nongovernmental organization International Forum for Aceh,...

Many defendant companies view buying settlement silence as an economically rational cost of doing business. ...

SANTA ANA - A state appellate court has granted a writ of mandate allowing a man to operate a fleet of taxi cabs in Anaheim, f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Burnham "Ham" Enersen, name partner in the San Francisco firm McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, has died at...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard has gained 11 attorneys from Santochi Gable Dwyer & Takah...

LOS ANGELES - Crispus Attucks Wright, a retired Los Angeles civil attorney and co-founder of the John M. Langston Bar Associat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trailblazing gay-rights attorney Paul F. Wotman died in his home Christmas Day of complications of lymphoma. H...

LOS ANGELES - The civil suits that the Daily Journal's litigation-saturated news hounds found most refreshing in Los Angeles t...

LOS ANGELES - After a century of headline-grabbing trials and record-setting verdicts, Los Angeles Superior Court tiptoed quie...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Superior Court judge who ordered Ford Motor Co. to recall and fix as many as 1.7 million Ca...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $3.3 million to a roofing assistant who suffered severe burns on the job, then fo...