Expanding pension protections for millions of workers, a federal appeals court has ruled companies that are seriously conside...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided California Supreme Court became the first jurisdiction in the nation Monday to uphold the co...

The California American Inns of Court will present a program titled "Ushering the Practice of Law Into the New Millennium" fro...

Remember Perry Mason? He was one of the good guys. An entire generation of kids who grew up watching the popular TV show becam...

Court Avoidance New Y2K Law Encourages Business Over Litigation By Don G. Rushing and Ray Hartman In July, Congress passed by ...

In remarks Monday to the fourth Congressional Black Caucus Forum on Police Brutality, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Task Force on Trial Court Employees began a three-day session Monday in the Judicial Council Conference Ce...

In what is apparently the longest prison term ever imposed in a sexual assault case in Los Angeles County and perhaps even Cal...

SACRAMENTO - A powerful Democratic lawmaker may be pushing to soften proposed increases in civil penalties that have been adde...

SEATTLE - Seattle attorney David Hirsch talks about writing badly the way Mark McGwire might talk about slugging a baseball. "...

SAN DIEGO - One of six people charged in a workers' compensation insurance-premium fraud case that triggered the unusual use o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two months before the dreaded Jan. 31 deadline, Stephen Opperwall, a solo practitioner from Pleasanton, found ...

A federal judge has ruled that Aetna U.S. Healthcare Inc. cannot enforce in California an agreement not to compete that it for...

Buford Furrow's federal murder case inched forward Monday as his defense lawyers made an unusual legal maneuver that could set...

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday allowing a Romanian teen-ager to remain in this country. The 15-year-ol...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Judicial Council has agreed to consider broad changes in the alternative dispute resolution system,...

Brown & Wood ONE BILLION DOLLARS GAINED IN DEBT OFFERING Earlier this summer, Boston-based FMR Corp., dba Fidelity Invest...

SEATTLE - Two senior members of San Francisco-based Graham & James denied a report that the firm "spun off" its Seattle o...

^^Real Property^^ By John R. Yeh Earlier this decade, the California Legislature enacted Code of Civil Procedure Section 715....

^^Tort Law^^ All Intents Supreme Court Limits Expansion of Proposition 213 Part of this narrow construction may come from the...

SAN DIEGO - A case that pits a veteran defense lawyer and his client against what the lawyer believes is serious prosecutoria...

^^Legal Ethics^^ Perilous Practice The California Supreme Court has issued a ruling that may result in disqualifying a firm f...

By Jeffrey Anderson The saying "anything worth doing is worth overdoing" could apply to our culture of corporate proliferatio...

^^Franchise Law^^ Outward Bound The 11th Circuit has followed the presumption against extraterritoriality and ruled that an F...

By Michael Blum and Alan Zimmerman Reform measures awaiting their passage in both Congress and many state legislatures are pu...

Buddy System Considering clients as friends boosts career satisfaction By Mathew Wyman When I announced to my older brother a...

By Leslie A. Gordon Donald J. Putterman proudly labels himself a generalist, a jack-of-all-trades litigator who can handle ju...

Memorial services have been held for retired federal tax attorney and author Gustave Simons. Simons died Aug. 14 at his home ...

SEATTLE - Years ago, Spokane lawyer Pat Stiley was told by a concerned friend that he was "spending too much damn time in the...

Lines are being drawn and attorneys are preparing tactical measures and countermeasures as they deal with the fallout from th...