SIMI VALLEY - It's not been a good week for nudists in Ventura County. Despite protests from the Naturist Society and the Amer...

Having mastered the art of bankruptcy, Judge Lisa Hill Fenning is ready for "a different pace of life." As someone who likes "...

In T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the protagonist measures out his life with coffee spoons. Frederic...

Not long ago, wealth and prestige were granted to any newcomer to the Silicon Valley who touted a graduate degree and ample ex...

The 11-month ordeal to create history's biggest media merger has ended with most early nay-sayers applauding. If all goes as p...

SACRAMENTO - To help the state's trial courts cope with thousands of drug addicts entitled to treatment under Proposition 36, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge here indicated Thursday that he is considering a potentially huge reduction in the scop...

They've redefined how to do business. They've set new rules. They've even changed our vernacular. And now they're in Washingto...

The growth of elder law has been mirrored in the number of books devoted to the subject that have been released recently. Uniq...

Many attorneys believe they couldn't be guilty of common ADR advocacy faux pas, but even the best sometimes fall into a false ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County man filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that Herbalife International's new CEO is reneging on at lea...

SANTA ANA - Sam Majdi used to enjoy his job in the electronics field. His dedication even earned him a sales-manager-of-the-ye...

LOS ANGELES - Two veteran, local legal aid offices have merged. The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and Long Beach Legal A...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted a new affirmative defense to insider-trading violations. ...

SANTA ANA - With the filing of a new lawsuit Wednesday, a 10-year-old Guatemalan girl orphaned by the Alaska Airlines crash an...

LOS ANGELES - A defense attorney's public claim that a detective sexually molested a witness is privileged, not defamatory, an...

LOS ANGELES - Authorities on Thursday released from custody an heir to the Max Factor fortune while he awaits a Jan. 17 prelim...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge gave no hint Thursday of how she is leaning in the motion for a new trial for three convi...

On Nov. 14, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration published the final Ergonomics Standard, a far-reaching rul...

LOS ANGELES - With little fanfare, Anita Bock, the director of the Department of Children and Family Services, this month rece...

LOS ANGELES - A single bouquet of fuchsias and white carnations Thursday signaled where on the 9th floor balcony of the downto...

SAN FRANCISCO - The "shall" issue isn't the only thorny question of legal prose preoccupying Bryan A. Garner. Add footnotes to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Now we say "shall," but should we say "must?" To Texas lexicographer and attorney Bryan A. Garner, it's a no-b...

SAN FRANCISCO - A divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that state government is not granting unconstitutional favor...

LOS ANGELES - In the business world, a man's best friend is often his pit bull, as in attack-dog lawyer. The Eye finds it hear...

Now that we know who the next president will be, the question in everyone's mind is: How will the presidency of George W. Bush...

A colleague told me that my monthly columns are becoming predictable. "You're cheating," he said. "Holidays, ugh! From St. Pat...

Although it has been somewhat slower to go online than other businesses, the insurance industry has made a significant commitm...

SAN FRANCISCO - A suit charging state and federal agencies with systematically denying benefits to California' homeless and di...

REDWOOD CITY - A San Mateo County judge granted a new trial to a convicted defendant Wednesday because the prosecutor in the c...