The validity of San Francisco's hotel conversion law is now before the California Supreme Court in a case that tests the const...

A deeply divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the certification of a class action lawsuit against the I...

Avoiding the type of impasse that has dogged it in the past over the authority of the Los Angeles Police Department's inspecto...

According to a McCall's magazine survey, the No. 1 issue of concern to women in this presidential election was health care. Co...

The Coverage/Bad Faith Substantive Law Committee of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel will present a prog...

Six local bar associations will co-sponsor a training session Nov. 30 for a pro bono program that provides legal counseling an...

Left to their own devices, lawyers sometimes do some pretty mean things to each other. ...

The Daily Journal asks lawyers how they feel about the election ending up in the courts. ...

The West District Coordinated Drug Court Program will hold graduation ceremonies at 1:30 p.m., Nov. 30. The ceremonies will ta...

More than 55 percent of the 7,655 would-be lawyers who took the California bar exam in July passed, the State Bar Committee of...

While most of the participants in this month's election drama have carefully refrained from labeling it as a constitutional cr...

Because the Los Angeles Police Department can't recruit enough candidates to fill its ranks, the city should spend the savings...

WASHINGTON - Charles Ruff, the powerful Washington lawyer and former White House counsel who successfully defended President C...

Courts across the country celebrated "National Adoption Day" Saturday as more than 1,000 former foster children became permane...

An elderly, illiterate woman crippled by surgery may substitute a fictitious defendant with a real one - an anesthesiologist -...

San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster plans to open its 18th office just a stone's throw from the Washington, D.C., office i...

Technology can and should benefit the poor, first and foremost. That was the message Friday as the Legal Aid Society of Orange...

Charles Dobson's relief shone through his calm smile as he stepped up to the makeshift court bench in front of television came...

In a case that pits U.S. values against European law, a French court ruled Monday that Yahoo! Inc. must block French citizens'...

One effusive e-mail following Judge Ronald M. Gould's confirmation to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals expressed delight ...

The piper must be paid. That is the resounding message sent by the $53.4 million settlement between Universal Music Group and ...

It's unlikely that English rocker Elton John and Los Angeles rapper Dr. Dre have much in common except fame and wealth. For in...

SACRAMENTO - California is making criminals out of the mentally ill who are repeatedly arrested because mental health and crim...

Regardless of how diligent an employer is in managing its workforce, most employers will be served with an employment-related ...

Prudence Kay Poppink, a prominent attorney with the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, has died of complicatio...

The determination of the existence of an implied-in-fact attorney-client relationship requires an analysis of the facts and ci...

You can call it a double whammy of sorts. Horace Nash, securities group chair for Palo Alto's Fenwick & West, recently put...

Young lawyers, do you really think having a randomized bar number will magically bestow on you the respect and reverence to wh...

When parents are awarded joint custody, they each gain a new abode and expect the child to shuttle back and forth. ...

While New York firms continue one-upping each other with year-end associate bonuses - and while California firms continue to f...