LOS ANGELES - Shoes covered in thin paper booties, a group of mostly first-time drunken-driving offenders shuffled silently th...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that shifts the boundaries of free speech, a divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that te...
SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday named three women to judicial positions, elevating one to an appellate court and appo...
LOS ANGELES - Legalizing Mexican workers in the United States and investing U.S. dollars in Mexico is the best policy for econ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart has found a supervising partner for its employment and labo...
The California Supreme Court's decision in Merrill v. Navegar Inc. holding that gun manufacturers may not be sued for t...
If you handle your reduction in force correctly, you can turn your former employees into your best salespeople. ...
LOS ANGELES - An African-American switchboard operator has sued the Antelope Valley School District, saying she was subjected ...
Culture is a very complex and powerful factor in determining the outcome of many trials. The cultural composition of the jury ...
LOS ANGELES - A special-education teacher who smothered a rabbit in a plastic bag in front of his pupils was acquitted Tuesday...
The California Supreme Court, in Merrill v. Navegar Inc ., has insulated from liability a gun manufacturer that sold wh...
Determining whether employees are exempt from certain wage-and-hour laws is not easy. Determining when an employer can dock an...
LOS ANGELES - One is the loneliest number, just ask James Loss. He is the last Riordan & McKinzie partner remaining in Ora...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors will ask the state Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's ruling that grand juries cannot indict m...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A woman charged with attempted murder for shutting off a dying cancer patient's respirator will face additi...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has picked up two new partners, an antitrust litigator and a labor an...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that revamps the process for resolving construction defect disputes has cleared a key legislative committe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie, a Seattle firm with aspirations for prominence in the Silicon Valley, has landed another intelle...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
High Court Takes 'Double-Dipping' Case
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Medi-Cal patients can sue health care provider...
LOS ANGELES - In the first conviction since the Los Angeles County district attorney reactivated a program that dispatches pro...
Intellectual Property
Tactics of the 'Sunrise Squatters' Creating Aggravation
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The "sunrise period" designed to give trademark owners a chance to register their names first in the newly int...
Criminal
Judge Criticizes DA for Talking Privately With Dismissed Juror
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Wednesday sharply criticized a prosecutor who followed a dismissed juror out of the Roybal Feder...
LOS ANGELES - A pending lawsuit pitting 139 female attorneys against the county got a boost this week from a federal report th...
SAN FRANCISCO - An unusual agreement that begins to break a logjam in adding new plants and animals to the nation's catalog of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Parents can sue California teachers if they refuse to instruct students only in English in violation of the st...
SAN FRANCISCO - When two key witnesses in a capital murder case recant their testimony years after the trial, the search for t...
On my desk in chambers are two hopeful documents. One is a recent book by a Boston lawyer named Ronald B. Shwartz. Shwartz had...
Q: To win cases, must counsel use visual aids or graphics? A: "Show, don't tell" is the cardinal rule when it comes to maintai...
LOS ANGELES - A former Intel Corp. employee pleaded guilty to insider trading for using information he learned while working a...