A Los Angeles employment dispute has put Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps in an awkward position as the subject of a test c...

Cristina Arguedas, name partner at Emeryville's Cooper Arguedas & Cassman, has become a fellow of the American College of ...

San Francisco's well-known intellectual property shop, Townsend and Townsend and Crew, finally is putting together a separate ...

Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS has added two new members - a family law judge and a real estate attorney - to it...

San Francisco's Legal Community Against Violence , the non-profit group founded in the aftermath of the 101 California St. sho...

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles' annual Access To Justice Awards event and fund-raiser on Tuesday honored investment b...

Amanda Susskind has a theory: "You can be a good lawyer without being creative, but you cannot be a great lawyer without being...

The St. Vincent Medical Center Foundation of Los Angeles has named a local bankruptcy associate to its board of directors. Mar...

LOS ANGELES - The upcoming attempted bombing trial of ex-Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson, formerly Kathleen...

SAN DIEGO - A judge has placed owners of the Mira Mesa Inn on three years' probation and ordered them to close their business ...

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood Boulevard, just as the stars whose names adorn its "Walk of Fame," has been undergoing several face li...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Friday issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Los Angeles Police Department from u...

Someone whose free-speech rights under the California Constitution are violated cannot sue for money damages, an appellate cou...

LOS ANGELES - As its attorneys turned off the lights and closed the doors Thursday night, Tuttle & Taylor's reign as one o...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has struck down Measure F, an Orange County ballot measure halting planning of an internati...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices appeared sharply split Friday on whether to reverse the Florida Supreme Court's decisi...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Council members Friday denounced the Los Angeles Police Department's heavy street presence duri...

Public utilities can send political literature to customers along with their bills, a California appellate court has said, str...

SACRAMENTO - Buzz words at the state Fair Political Practices Commission these days, such as "reasonable foreseeability," "pub...

LOS ANGELES - The Daily Journal Corporation has announced the launch of its Web site, which gives subscribers access to curren...

The class-action option has long served a dual purpose, both allowing individuals to combine relatively small claims and reso...

LOS ANGELES - For six years, young immigrants from Mexico found work as graveyard-shift janitors in supermarkets in Southern C...

By Julie Nakashima Transportation is one of the biggest issues real estate developers face. Proximity to airports, ports and ...

By John McCloud The high rents and tight markets of the inner ring of San Francisco Bay Area cities has had less impact on th...

In two cases, seemingly disparate but both involving access to justice for large but unempowered segments of society, attorney...

A basic knowledge of small claims court is crucial to any civil litigator. ...

California's total construction volume after nine months was up 9.8 percent, totaling $46.19 billion, according to the Constr...

I've been in this line of work for 30 years and I'm still surprised to see what our state appellate courts think are hot legal...

Next week's oral argument should prove interesting to tort practitioners - and not just those who litigate medical-device or p...

SAN FRANSICO - The Monterey County bench officially approved consolidating its superior and municipal courts Thursday, leavin...