A higher standard of proof required in juvenile probation hearings before Proposition 21 was passed must be followed if the al...

Memorial services for Russell Adams Freeman, former executive vice president and general counsel of Security Pacific Corp., wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors will have more time to gather evidence while defendants are held in custody under a California Sup...

Dicta: By Mark B. Vezzani Zany cases happen in the Beverly Hills Judicial District, which includes West Hollywood as well as B...

Dicta: Overhead Overhaul By Theda C. Snyder Although lawyers are among the biggest users of expedited delivery services, messe...

Dicta: Better Business By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto Surveys are one of the best ways to obtain valuable information. We've al...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Madison & Sutro has hired a former partner to defend the firm against malpractice accusations. ...

Practitioner:Insurance Law By Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich California law currently allows insurers and HMOs to include arbitration c...

The Ventura County division of the 2nd District Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal Wednesday brought by a man who argued for ...

LAGUNA BEACH - The mayor of Laguna Beach has filed suit against the board of directors of the Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach...

Practitioner: Insurance Law By Kirk A. Pasich Insurance is a key component of conducting business. Often, when business is con...

NEWPORT BEACH - A legal battle that began last month over a business deal between two Orange County mainstays has escalated. ...

Dicta: By Paul O'Brien The computer - love it or hate it - is likely the most genuine reflection of our age. This comes from o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A legal battle involving alleged piracy of online pornography did not make the list of cases approved for revi...

SAN DIEGO - An hour after an appellate court denied a writ seeking to keep a Union-Tribune reporter out of jail, a Superior Co...

A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury Wednesday awarded $15 million to a Covina couple - nearly $12 million to the husband,...

Asians are underrepresented and blacks are over represented on the new Los Angeles County civil grand jury selected at random ...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge who came under fire in 1998 for zapping an unruly defendant with a 50,000-volt stun belt wa...

A former attorney with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges faces charges that he had sex last summer with a 15-year-old...

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying the CEO and founder of Aptix Corp. was "caught red-handed " fabricating entries in his inventor's noteb...

SAN FRANCISCO - The New York firm Shearman & Sterling has announced that it plans to increase the size of its Bay area off...

The Asian Pacific American Legal Center has opened its new center at 1145 Wilshire Blvd. in downtown Los Angeles. ...

San Diego Watch: Consumer Attorneys of San Diego has inducted two prominent San Diego litigators into its h all of fame during...

Forum: By Rod Eshelman On June 3, 1999, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New Yor...

SAN JOSE - Former Santa Cruz County District Attorney Peter Chang, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor earlier this year after...

Practitioner: Alternative Dispute Resolution By Richard Chernick There is a temptation when a party is sued in a case where th...

Well-known litigator and rainmaker George T. Caplan - head of Century City's Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey's litiga...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department should increase resources and its supervision of deputies in order to avoid a Ramp...

Bringing to 93 the number of criminal cases thrown out of court because of the Rampart police corruption scandal, the convicti...

Continuing a tradition of philanthropy, O'Melveny & Myers held its seventh annual Warren Christopher Scholarship Program o...