Mediation fosters an exchange of information in a frank and candid environment, allowing the parties to quickly and economical...

By Michael K. Brown and Peter J. Kennedy. California Supreme Court Provides Guidance on Unfair-Competition Law 'Kraus' and 'Co...

By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. Justice Wendell Ravenswood, a close friend and associate of the Honorable Learned Foote - the schola...

By Michael E. Wine. We are all familiar with the old saying that a lawyer who represents himself or herself has a fool for a c...

By Peg Healy. A few days before our annual midsummer Cub Scout den planning meeting, I get messages from two of the five boys'...

SAN FRANCISCO - The abrupt arrest of a Russian emigre in a federal court hallway immediately following his acquittal on charge...

By Scott A. Sommer. In Citizens for Covenant Compliance v. Anderson, 12 Cal.App.4th 345 (1995), the court addressed the...

By Judith C. Chirlin. As a member of this community, as a judge and as a teacher, I am distressed by the response of many to t...

By Michael Paul Thomas and Mitchell L. Leverett. Inherent Risk Recent Sports-Injury Decisions Deal With Duty Issue As the assu...

In a rare trial over a false advertising claim, a San Francisco judge has found that the makers of an over-the-counter pain me...

SAN FRANCISCO - After serving 21 years on the 1st District Court of Appeal, Justice Marcel Poche has announced he will retire ...

Jonathan Punongbayan and his pal, Bill Choi, wanted to get as close as they could to the stars in UCLA's December 1998 celebri...

The on-again, off-again judicial career of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is off, again, apparently perman...

Two men linked to a $21 million investment scam have been charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly trying to hide ass...

Martin Brill, bankruptcy attorney and longtime managing partner of Robinson Diamant & Brill, is leaving the firm to become...

Amanda Susskind, who took time off from practicing law to run for the State Assembly in the 42nd District last year and lost t...

International corporate attorney Joseph M. Barbeau has left San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster after 18 years. Barbeau jo...

RIVERSIDE - A massive San Bernardino County landfill project, designed to handle the inevitable overflow of garbage from Los A...

A state court of appeal Wednesday ordered actor Robert Downey Jr. released from prison, deciding that he has served adequate t...

No tear gas, pepper spray or rubber bullets, please. And hold the bean bags and concussion grenades. Protest groups want the L...

SANTA ANA - Major distributors of recorded music may start singing the blues now that they've been targeted by an Orange Count...

SAN FRANCISCO - On Oct. 29, 1987, authorities found Virginia Lowery's partially decomposed body in the garage of her Excelsior...

Rita Ijebor, former head nurse at the Heman G. Stake Youth Correctional Facility, sat timidly in the conference room of the st...

A federal judge Wednesday approved an agreement between the city of Los Angeles and protest groups to give demonstrators the ...

By David B. (Dov) Fischer. Disagreements should be settled with words, not deadly weapons. That's a basic rule of civilized so...

It's been a tradition for the outgoing chair of the Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys to pass an "invisible gavel" to the i...

By Steve Baughman. In a recent political-asylum trial, my client testified to having paid a $25,000 fine for political activit...

By Virginia M. Apuzzo. The election in the year 2000 is the type that comes along once in a generation - an election that, for...

By Kathy M. Banke and Lisa M. Baird. Appellate Law - Waiver Worries Failure to Make the Record Can Be a Trap for Unwary. Two r...

B of A Absolved In Boy's Mauling Although it owned the property where a construction company's guard dogs fatally mauled a you...