By Pearl J. Piatt Los Angeles lawyer Jeffrey A. Berman has always been interested in religion. During his undergraduate years...

SAN FRANCISCO - At least three other lawsuits around the country may be influenced by Pacific Bell's agreement to credit the ...

^^Antitrust Law^^ Quick Fire Court Rejects Abbreviated Review of Restrictions on Dentists A factual inquiry into both the ant...

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or of divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of myste...

By Jennifer Byrd Silicon Valley has become the lawyers' land of milk and honey - a vibrant and competitive legal community wh...

SAN JOSE - A U.S. District Court judge in Massachusetts has issued a preliminary injunction ordering Silicon Valley's Hewlett...

The newest member of the State Bar Board of Governors said he was appointed in hopes he would "bring a fresh kind of eyes to ...

The author of legislation to restore the State Bar of California told lawyers Thursday night that his bill would establish ne...

SANTA ANA - Ceilings are lathered with asbestos, air conditioning doesn't always work on sweltering summer days, faded paint ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A tearful young juror tells a judge in a criminal trial she has serious doubts about the defendant's guilt. T...

The verdict of nearly $5 billion that a Los Angeles Superior Court jury ordered the General Motors Corp. to pay a family and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court, following similar rulings elsewhere, Thursday struck down a voter-approved ball...

^^The Rodent^^ The road to becoming a lawyer is long and hard. You have to go to college, take the LSAT, graduate from law sc...

By Paul Singarella On June 3, the State Water Resources Control Board held a public hearing about its plan to clean up, or ot...

VICTORVILLE - After being convicted for the fifth time of driving under the influence, personal injury attorney John E. Newma...

By Ira L. Shafiroff What would you say of a society and its legal system that allows the murderer of eight young children to ...

SAN DIEGO - Mayor Susan Golding was arraigned Thursday on two counts of misconduct in office but raised objections to the cha...

SAN FRANCISCO - The recording and electronics industries appeared on the verge of a historic accord Thursday that supporters s...

By Annette S. Biesecker Long gone are the days when law firms submit one-line bills "for services rendered" and still expect ...

SANTA ANA - An Anaheim attorney accused of practicing law while suspended from the State Bar and posing as another attorney c...

After 40 years, one of Phoenix's oldest and largest law firms, O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Killingsworth & Beshears, is...

A Hawthorne activist who claimed a trash collection company pocketed funds that should have gone to the city is appealing a j...

SACRAMENTO - A compromise bill to restore plaintiffs' right to sue defendants' insurers when they wrongfully deny or delay pa...

Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed charges against an auto insurance fraud ring they say perpetrated an apparently new...

U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas Thursday ratcheted up his office's focus on police misconduct, launching a civil investigati...

By Joseph Posner In Kolstad v. American Dental Ass'n , 99 Daily Journal D.A.R. 6251 (June 22, 1999), the U.S. Supreme Court h...

By Jill Strickstein The thought process of a large firm associate on the way to work could go something like this: "Behind on...

No-contest pleas have been entered by three of four defendants in what Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has ...

Three former Los Angeles County jail inmates have filed a class-action complaint against the county, accusing the sheriff's d...

By Mark A. Romeo In three cases decided last month, the U.S. Supreme Court provided specific guidance about what may and may ...