By Julia Lapis. It's baseball season again! I love baseball, and like most fans, I generally see the positive side of our nati...

By Jonathan Schneeweiss. Every day, at workplaces throughout California, employees work with or are incidentally exposed to ha...

By Kenneth Theisen. On July 25, 1974, two weeks before he resigned from office, Richard Nixon signed legislation creating the ...

By William D. Wick. Federal agencies can't escape California state courts in air-pollution cases by removing the cases to fede...

On Aug. 15, Verdicts & Settlements sat down with a few of the country's leading sports law attorneys to discuss the effect...

By Howard Jacobs. As Olympic sports gained popularity and importance, the incentive for improvement increased. Athletes seekin...

An Iranian businessman who braved the fury of the ayatollahs by distributing Salman Rushdie's banned novel "The Satanic Verses...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Judith McConnell, the first woman elected presiding judge in a metropolitan California court,...

In a few short days, the world's single largest sporting event will commence in Australia and the value of corporate affiliati...

Greg Lyman likens speed-skating to litigating cases, "both require tremendous preparation, while you actually only compete for...

By Douglas G. Carnahan. Court reporters can make witnesses and lawyers look like fools or champions of articulateness. ...

A teacher at Palisades High School filed a sexual harassment suit Thursday claiming the school district failed to protect her ...

SAN DIEGO - A two-strike prison inmate, additionally convicted in July of threatening to kill a San Diego County Superior Cour...

SACRAMENTO - One-half of a measure signed into law Thursday by Gov. Gray Davis contains the largest single amount ever directe...

Hoping to influence attorneys, judges and clients to resolve disputes through more effective communications and to create valu...

The city has been hit with 71 lawsuits alleging wrongdoing by Los Angeles Police Department officers accused of corruption in ...

A former court-appointed conservator and trustee accused of stealing nearly $2 million from estates in a complex money-jugglin...

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Justice Louise Arbour, spok...

By Ross Johnson. Before The Eye gets too far into the news involving "Dr. Wen Ho Lee: The Movie," let's look at an Internet Mo...

Settlement of lawsuits against the state-appointed conservator and bankruptcy attorneys the conservator hired for a failing he...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John D. Harris on Thursday sentenced a Reseda gardener who brutally raped an attorney on New ...

Record promoter and reputed mob soldier Joseph Isgro was sentenced Thursday to 50 months in federal prison and ordered to pay ...

Federal prosecutors have abused the grand jury in the case of Buford O. Furrow Jr. by asking witnesses inappropriate questions...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with whether a home builder may be sued for construction defec...

SANTA ANA - They said they visited the Magic Kingdom simply to exchange several dozen of Disney's version of the popular Beani...

Katherine McDaniel, former director of intellectual property for Times Mirror Co. and a member of its newly dispersed legal de...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco Thursday permanently barred the federal government from revoking prescription...

One of the most important lessons Jill J. Chasson has learned from competitive athletics is one she applies everyday in her l...

By Michael M. Berger. The city made an error by assuming that its professed good intentions would shield it from constitutiona...

IRVINE - Saying that a federal judge's ruling has unjustly blocked it from contributing to candidates for the Irvine City Coun...