SACRAMENTO - Sexual harassment claims could more easily be brought against lawyers, doctors, teachers and landlords under a b...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer is reviewing charges that trade groups and state regulators have committed anticom...

SAN DIEGO - To heighten awareness of elder abuse, Deputy District Attorney Paul Greenwood put up a billboard and distributed ...

The city of Inglewood and three of its officials have filed a malpractice suit against a defunct Pasadena law firm, charging ...

IRVINE - Described by attorneys as one of the toughest cases they've ever dealt with, the University of California, Irvine fe...

Drawing the curtain on one of the most bitterly fought, high-stakes courtroom disputes in Hollywood history, the Walt Disney ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A single sentence on the last page of a 1996 police newsletter could change how police around California work ...

JAMS/Endispute's board of directors on Tuesday voted to approve a $3 million deal between the Irvine-based ADR provider and a...

By J. Grant Kennedy It appears that many people have strong feelings against lawyers. Some lawyers throw gas on the fire by c...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $500,000 settlement Tuesday of a lawsuit filed by a company president ...

Calling new security screening systems at the downtown Los Angeles County Courthouse "a sad necessity," family law attorney R...

SAN DIEGO - While most of this city's lawyers still work downtown, several firms have staked out their future to the north in...

SAN JOSE - Claude M. Stern never intended to become a Y2K expert nor an intellectual property litigator. Nor, for that matter...

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former Los Angeles police officer who claimed his personnel records illegally were...

One of two attorneys charged in a large auto insurance fraud case has refused to surrender as promised and is now considered ...

Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Sheila B. Allen has beaten tremendous odds all her life. Leaving a large family s...

SAN DIEGO - More than 2,200 pages of grand jury testimony and documents released Tuesday reveal a San Diego mayor who at time...

Striking Out Jury Selection Has Become Responsive to Everybody's Rights A major strategic victory can be won, because raising ...

By Maier Rosenberg Attorneys routinely incur costs that will eventually be billed to the client. Most lawyers conclude that t...

MILBANK TWEED POWERS UP WITH NINE ASSOCIATES New York-based Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy added nine new associates and...

Two Masters EMPLOYMENT LAW: Workers leased from an employment agency may also be common-law employees of the recipient of the...

The Intel Corp. entered into a definitive merger agreement with Dialogic Corp. of Parsippany, N.J., on June 1. Intel will acqu...

By Stacy L. Cohen Corporate lawyers have a news flash for outside counsel: If you want to get business from them, forget the ...

^^Professional Responsibility^^ Prove It! Malpractice Plaintiffs Must Show More Than 'Settler's Remorse' The court relied on ...

In law it is a good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot. Abraham Linco...

SAN FRANCISCO - A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives is probing whether the plan to privatize Internet Web site r...

Dealmaker: Richard A. Strong of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. On Memorial Day weekend, Richard A. Strong wasn't enjoying a fami...

After a full day of courtroom combat, toxic tort specialist Richard Giller often finds himself facing a different kind of bat...

By Mark B. Vezzani Experienced attorneys know knowledge of the law does not ensure a win. On balance, facts win lawsuits and ...

VENTURA - A Ventura civil attorney has filed an anti-SLAPP motion against an attempted murder suspect and his attorney, claim...