In light of the continuing presidential election furor, the day after Thanksgiving may be a good, safe moment to say a few wor...

A strong opening statement is critical to success at trial. It should be the jury's road map through the maze of legal issues ...

Attorneys come in different stripes, but few offer greater contrast in style and personality than Manatt, Phelps & Phillip...

The prosecutor told the jurors that they could '[do] what God says' and impose the death penalty, or act like heathens and let...

Attorney B. Boyd Hight seems suspiciously modest for a one-time actor. Actually, calling him an actor is a stretch. His only r...

Greg K. Hafif of the Law Offices of Herbert Hafif in Claremont won $5.8 million in a boating accident case. Raul Marmol v. Ade...

BALI, Indonesia -- Like most Indonesian attorneys, Aloysia Trombine knew little about contract drafting when she started pract...

This vignette occurred in England. A man unwittingly drove his vehicle in excess of the speed limit through a speed trap. ...

While capital punishment in the United States has lately been a campaign issue, a federal administrative agency that routinely...

Hungry Minds Inc., in its rush to publish "Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies," "Success For Dummies," "Making Marriage Wor...

Learning to talk to judges is like grasping a foreign language - once you know the vocabulary you must also understand the nua...

When it comes to searches and seizures, parolees in California are treated like second-class citizens: Police can search their...

SANTA ANA - A federal judge has put the breaks on an alleged financial scam by issuing a temporary restraining order that bloc...

After hearing testimony that Los Angeles Police Department officers still violate a 1979 order that they not inquire about imm...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to put litigator Patricia Glaser on a $150,000 retainer to thwart efforts by outs...

Funeral services were held earlier this week in Poplarville, Miss., for Toxey Hall Smith Sr., a pioneer in personal injury and...

Legal authorities say the latest development in the convictions of three Los Angeles police officers in the first trial born o...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has barred Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps from requiring employees to sign an arbitratio...

SACRAMENTO - Insurers of Northridge earthquake victims have petitioned the state Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a n...

Even though large law firms are paying associates skyrocketing sums, a recent survey has found that many of these lawyers woul...

Gov. Gray Davis has announced the appointment of six new judges - three appellate court justices and three for the San Diego C...

An epic battle between local and state government over property tax revenues appears headed for the California Supreme Court. ...

A local attorney, weary of what he sees as increasing acrimony in the practice of law, has turned his love of editorial cartoo...

OAKLAND - Disability Rights Advocates Corp. handed out its 4th Annual Eagle and Turkey Awards Tuesday, saluting corporations t...

Hillyer & Irwin, one of San Diego's oldest law firms, which has experienced a number of shareholder and associate departur...

SANTA ANA - A live-in nanny who once worked for former Anaheim Angels pitching ace Chuck Finley and his wife, Julie, has sued ...

On Monday, the public was able to watch a live, televised hearing in the Florida Supreme Court on the legal challenge to the m...

The task force's work has resulted in legislation that clarifies a judge's authority to utilize special discovery references. ...

In a legal market that's producing more corporate work than many firms say they can handle, Cooley Godward didn't forget the l...

San Francisco Judge Lenard Louie has declined to join a handful of judges around the country who have permitted hearings desig...