When the state Supreme Court struck down Kaiser Permanente's mandatory arbitration process in a ground-breaking decision in 19...

SAN DIEGO - A pastel drawing hangs at eye level between the high windows overlooking San Diego Bay. It depicts a man so lost ...

Joe Shapiro, former executive vice president and counsel for the Walt Disney Co., died Thursday following a recent recurrence...

Gov. Gray Davis brought California's judicial system into the digital age this week, signing a bill that enables courts to es...

^^Alternative Dispute Resolution^^ Tough Fight Avoiding Mandatory Arbitration Clauses Once a client has signed a binding arbi...

SACRAMENTO - An estimated 14 million Californians now have a new litigation weapon to wield against health plans that deny, d...

SAN FRANCISCO - Exactly a year after a mysterious oil spill was discovered off the Northern California coast, the captain and...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge Monday declared unconstitutional a state law requiring Superior Court judges to live in...

RIVERSIDE - The former public defender here has filed a wrongful dismissal claim against the Riverside County Board of Superv...

SACRAMENTO - Few have more to lose politically than Gil Garcetti now that the governor has signed legislation that strips dis...

Few people can boast of once living beneath Dodger Stadium. Civil rights attorney Sharon Lybeck Hartmann is one of them. A na...

In 1992, Beverly Benton went to her doctor at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group for treatment of a urinary tract infection. ...

SACRAMENTO - Now comes the hard part. On Friday, Gov. Gray Davis signed into law a historic overhaul of California's troubled...

The boy wore a red sweatshirt with a picture of Minnie kissing Mickey Mouse and spent the day quietly drawing pictures of bra...

In an effort to ease the fears of trial court unification foes, Attorney General Bill Lockyer has strongly refuted critical a...

The head of the Los Angeles County district attorney's major narcotics division Monday dismissed the defense bar's latest att...

A federal judge Monday gave final approval to the settlement of a 1993 class-action lawsuit brought against the Anti-Defamati...

A dispute over what Los Angeles Police Department materials the inspector general should have access to has been resolved, of...

By Kent R. Raygor and Oral Caglar The federal Trademark Amendments Act, Pub. L. No. 106-43, 113 Stat. 218, signed into law by...

Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks is calling a county anti-gang loitering ordinance "a viable tool" and recommending the...

SAN FRANCISCO - One could certainly argue that when Somma Sriee Sooria Arratchiga decided to become a parking lot attendant, ...

By Don J. DeBenedictis Yes, Virginia, there really is a State Bar. Contrary to popular opinion, it did not expire when then-G...

By Gary S. Wong Major earthquakes, fires, floods and other natural occurrences can be potential disasters for law firms. Hard...

A judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial. Philo Wilson Sonsini CORPORATE LAWYER JOINS VALLE...

^^Alternative Dispute Resolution Reflect, Not Reflex Consider Pros and Cons Before Arbitrating Rather than simply giving in t...

By Don J. DeBenedictis The next president of the State Bar of California, Andrew J. Guilford, may be a well-known litigator a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The local, five-attorney firm of Hovis Smith Stewart Lipscomb & Cross has dissolved, and three of its lawy...

By Arturo J. Gonzlez Mario Paz, a 64-year-old father of six, was killed Aug. 9, 1999, during a raid of his Compton home. A ma...

By Chris Ford Los Angeles Municipal Court Presiding Judge Veronica McBeth received a phone call several years ago from a cons...

By Jennifer Byrd San Francisco attorneys Dale Minami and Donald K. Tamaki have reshaped history for Japanese-Americans. In th...