WASHINGTON - Continuing its strong support for arbitration, the Supreme Court on Wednesday indicated it will block the Equal E...

The neutral must direct the process so that the parties achieve in fact what they believe has occurred by their agreement. ...

Stress is a nonspecific response of the body to any demand made on it. The body responds to stress with an elaborate series of...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge refused Tuesday to throw out contempt-of-court charges against Deputy District Attorney M...

Have you received more than the usual junk mail lately? Lawyers have been hooked by federal privacy-disclosure legislation use...

Breaking up any relationship is hard to do. But when attorneys go their separate ways the acrimony can reach epic proportions,...

For employers, the only constant is change. New rules are in effect regarding "reasonable accommodations" for "disabled" emplo...

Our civil-justice system should provide more-stringent protections to the most precious among us - our children. Our system of...

Watching attorneys use the law to attack one another after their firm splits apart can make any lawyer bitter and cynical abou...

A friend called to check in last week. We talked at length, like most of us do these days, about Sept. 11. We talked about the...

The foster-care system in the nation and in California has failed to protect one of the most underserviced and marginalized se...

LOS ANGELES - Security measures taken at Century City's twin towers have turned many lawyers and office employees into early b...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein said on Tuesday the government's war on terrorism probably will demand more district court ...

LOS ANGELES - If there is any truth to the axiom "a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind," white-collar criminal defense attorn...

SACRAMENTO - A privacy measure that would have prevented employers from secretly monitoring their workers' electronic mail and...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge presiding over the bankruptcy of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. rejected a request Tuesday by state At...

LOS ANGELES - An angel sculpture once destined for a Los Angeles firehouse will instead be sent as a gift to New York City at ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As managing partner at patent prosecution boutique Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman in San Jose, Tarek Fah...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not a crime to stare, but it becomes sexual harassment when you stare shamelessly several times a day at ...

Charles F. Peterson says that his natural bent toward bridging the gap between peoples and cultures led to his career in media...

SAN FRANCISCO - The City Attorney race heated up Tuesday with the announcement of three key endorsements. The union representi...

Whether it's applying to law school or a legal job, we in the legal profession often are called on to provide references and l...

On Sept. 11, more than 14,000 attorneys were displaced as a result of the destruction of the World Trade Center towers and sur...

The Supreme Court announced that it will hear a case that will shape and define American public education for the next generat...

LOS ANGELES - State Sen. Dick Ackerman, a longtime politician who has practiced law for more than 30 years, has joined Orange ...

Practitioners representing divorcing spouses whose community assets took a beating in the recent dramatic decline of stock val...

SAN JOSE - Two Bay Area county bar associations are sponsoring training sessions for attorneys and others who want to assist i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors and litigants might not think of themselves as a court's clientele, but customer service is gaining a l...

SAN FRANCISCO - In overturning the largest judgment ever imposed on a militant antiabortion group last March, a federal appeal...