The court rejected Whitfield's proposed new theory, concluding that it would be unwise to adopt a broad new theory of recovery...

After 14 years, litigation attorney Steven O. Kramer has defected from San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro to join t...

Mona Thalheimer knew whom to turn to when her rights as a deaf person were violated. She contacted one of the only deaf attorn...

The movie 'Girlfight' asks the question: Do women athletes need legal protection from being forced to compete against male ath...

More than a year after a landmark settlement promised people with disabilities better access to emergency call boxes, Carol An...

Parties and counsel may expect that the arbitrator they designate will not be impartial. But if the arbitration is deemed an "...

Employment mediations traditionally follow a predictable format. The attorneys and parties typically meet the mediator for the...

Sure, mediation is a flexible process participants adapt to their particular needs at a given time. But have expectations aris...

There is an adage that if something is worth doing, it is worth doing well. Strict and consistent application of this wisdom o...

It is important for attorneys to understand the issues that exist when they are trying a medical-malpractice case. ...

History is written by the winners. When Shawn Brown, Jorg Halaby and attorney John Reiner were arrested April 26 for allegedly...

A federal jury on Monday convicted three Los Angeles-area residents of running a $42 million Ponzi scheme in Beverly Hills, pr...

PHOENIX - After 28 years in the legal field, Bruce E. Meyerson has made a change. A former appellate judge and university gene...

Don't mind giving $3 or $6 to a giant corporation every month and getting nothing in return? David and Jennifer Cundiff of Lon...

The county workers union served an unfair labor practices complaint on the county's chief administrative officer Thursday, acc...

SANTA ANA - A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order barring Sprint from pulling out of an agreement to sell ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors are increasingly willing to give away jaw-dropping punitive damage awards, according to experts and rec...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judicial election has turned sour during the last month of campaigning, and at the...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday approved a foster parent's $1.2 million settlement offer for the care of a toddler...

Reversing his position on a high-profile policy issue for the second time in less than a month, Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. R...

SAN DIEGO - From Sacramento to San Diego, California prosecutors, advocacy groups and civil rights organizations that have bee...

A market with a shoddy inspection policy was held liable for a slip-and-fall even though the plaintiff could not prove how lon...

Like the sign that says, "Ignore Dog, Beware of Owner," judges' voice-mail greetings reveal something about them. ...

If Judge Gary Allen Feess oversees the Rampart consent decree, the LAPD will never be reformed. ...

All tenants should develop corporate policies regarding the delivery of estoppel certificates. ...

Following an 11-day preliminary hearing, a San Francisco judge discharged arson and vandalism counts Wednesday against a 50-y...

This week's one-day job walkouts of unionized county workers, most of them support staffers demanding higher wages, have so fa...

The Los Angeles County public defender closed eight of its branch offices and the district attorney's family-support operation...

Judge Robert A. Dukes won his peers' vote Wednesday for assistant presiding judge of Los Angeles Superior Court. ...

VENTURA - Prosecutors have dropped charges against two of the three defendants accused of attempting to extort $310,000 from m...