In a novel ruling in a stock fraud case, a state appellate court has decided that shareholders can sue if a corporation gives ...

A Placer County judge who was recently censured by the state judicial watchdog commission for grabbing his bailiff's breasts h...

Why did the attorney cross the street? Well, if Cooley Godward partner David Lipkin gets his way, attorneys will seldom need t...

After a failed bid against Gil Garcetti for Los Angeles district attorney and a few years as head of the environmental group f...

Tanya Neiman is the director of the Volunteer Legal Services Program in San Francisco, whose goal is to help those who are not...

By Roger Jon Diamond. In Free Speech Coalition v. Reno, 198 F.3d 1083 (9th Cir. 1999), the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals s...

In a deal reached late Friday, the city of Los Angeles and protest groups have agreed to make a minor alteration to the fenced...

SAN JOSE - Yahoo! Inc., which is being sued by an Ohio message-board user for disclosing his personal identity in response to ...

Maria Montengo and her husband Albert wearily scrutinized the signs along the second floor of the Los Angeles County Courthous...

A state appellate court has ordered a man who threatened to kill Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina to return to cour...

A U.S. appellate court refused Friday to overturn murder-for-hire and narcotics convictions even though evidence in the case ...

In response to homeowners who complained that an influx of cars from a private school was destroying their exclusive Brentwoo...

A group of almost-lawyers waits, nervously, in the foyer of the Court of Appeal in Ventura. Armed with stacks of papers, notes...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man sentenced to three years in prison for theft by fraud must be resentenced because the judge who presided...

A vending machine that sells pre-paid phone cards and a chance at cash prizes is an illegal slot machine, an appellate panel ...

SANTA ANA - At 125 pounds and 5 years of age, Othello, a strapping male Rottweiler, had just won the title of "Best of Breed" ...

FULLERTON - Fresh out of law school, new attorneys often lack the skills needed to maneuver a client through the system. One O...

After decades of vows to add a public law school to the University of California system in Southern California, the new millen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Internet music maverick Napster Inc., having succeeded in staving off a court-ordered shutdown of its free onl...

In filing the third and most serious case thus far in the Rampart scandal - attempted murder charges against officer Nino Durd...

SAN DIEGO - It has been nearly two years since Kimberly Bailey and Richard Post drove across the border to Tijuana, where they...

By John C. Eastman. For more than a quarter century, Congress and state legislatures have been trying to rid our land of child...

Q. Can mediations be shortened? Sessions seem to kick into high gear only after the sun goes down. Ben Schonbrun, of Venice's ...

The laudable goal is making the new instructions more comprehensible to jurors, the vast majority of whom are not lawyers. ...

Judge Brickner counsels against taking notes during cross-examination. ...

Lawyers, take heart: When it comes to obfuscation, you are mere novices compared to lexicographers. ...

Lawyers and other professionals are being ripped off by the phone companies with the connivance of the state Legislature. As a...

In Pierotti v. Torian, 81 Cal.App.4th 17 (2000), the appellate court has issued another opinion in support of the finality of ...

In the spring of 1999, the media broadcast the story about the Palm Beach land developer who was arrested and charged for kidn...

Terrence A. Beard of Antioch's Law Offices of Terrence A. Beard obtained a $4 million verdict on behalf of eight SpeeDee Oil C...