Unreasonable Woman EMPLOYMENT LAW: The federal courts have not balked at summarily adjudicating in employers' favor cases in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - United Airlines, Federal Express and other air carriers cannot put off much longer extending nonhealth benefi...

On the eve of trial, the $100 million breach of contract suit comedian Garry Shandling filed against his former manager and p...

A day after a Mendocino Community College student filed a $1 million racial profiling lawsuit against Santa Rosa police, the ...

After more than a year of negotiating, 40 cities that contract with the county of Los Angeles for law enforcement and other s...

Following a wave of higher court rulings condemning news media tactics, a divided state appeal panel has allowed the parents ...

UKIAH - Norman Vroman is unique among the 58 county district attorneys in California. He is the only avowed libertarian and t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The watershed federal appellate ruling Friday that raised the pleading standards for plaintiffs in securities...

For most athletes, completing a single marathon race would be a crowning lifetime achievement. But for Joan Haratani , a major...

SACRAMENTO - The lawyers may want to strengthen consumers' ability to take insurers to court. But the attorneys' own malpract...

By W.F. Rylaarsdam In "Pity the Reader Who's Put to Sleep by a Block Quote" (Dicta, June 18), my good friend Jeffrey Calkins ...

By Hindi Greenberg Many lawyers consider teaching as an alternative to practicing law. They enjoy imparting information and t...

^^Tort Law^^ Cyber Arm When Can a Court Reach Internet Tortfeasors? The court analyzed the issue using both traditional juris...

Beyond Limits Elder-Abuse Claims Not Subject to MICRA By Steven G. Mehta In recent years, the topic of elder-abuse litigation...

By John Burton The U.S. Supreme Court term ended just before the Independence Day holiday, allowing the justices and their la...

A teen-ager's claims that he was physically abused, threatened with sexual assaults, called racially offensive names and phot...

The Los Angeles County grand jury saved taxpayers possibly millions of dollars by presiding over criminal matters during fisc...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday narrowly voted to send to the full Senate the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...

In a continuing crackdown on the notorious Mexican Mafia, a federal grand jury has issued racketeering indictments against 16...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's a simple yet increasingly popular mixture of classroom and clubroom, where young and experienced lawyers...

SAN FRANCISCO - An injured prison inmate who claims workers dropped him to the ground as they tried to load him into an ambul...

RIVERSIDE - On a family trip to Yosemite in 1973, Jim Heiting first confronted the notion that he might have a drinking probl...

SIMI VALLEY - The case of an elementary school student molested by a teen-age girl raised a novel legal issue: Could the scho...

As Gov. Gray Davis prepares to make his first judicial appointments, the State Bar panel now completing its first evaluations...

WASHINGTON - In its recently completed 1998-99 term, the Supreme Court generated only 75 signed opinions - 16 fewer than last...

Some legal employers must offer hamburger instead of steak By Theda C. Snyder To get and keep full-time employees you have to...

By Michael M. Berger Although the courts have not been kind to landlords in recent years, the landlords finally won one in Ga...

^^Bench Press^^ It's All Greek Political correctness is sometimes enough to get one's Irish up By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. My f...

Construction of the multimillion-dollar Playa Vista development at the Ballona Wetlands will continue in the wake of another ...

A businessman who claims he was attacked in jail after he wrongly was arrested on an expired or false warrant has sued the ci...