SAN FRANCISCO - A jilted romantic partner can recover damages for unjust enrichment caused by a broken promise of parenthood, ...

Century City's Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey effectively has lost its entertainment litigation group with the defec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Expressing concern about limited due process protections, a federal appellate panel appeared sympathetic Frida...

Evaluating a career move at the senior level involves different considerations from evaluating a move as a junior attorney. ...

According to the May 20 edition of the Economist, the United States now has 300 billionaires, 5 million millionaires and 9 mil...

Although John C. Murphy is happier than some would believe possible in the legal profession and looks back at 20 years of repr...

As a trial judge presiding over civil trials, I have detected a trap for the unwary: the video deposition. ...

Howard S. Fredman, of Los Angeles' Law Offices of Howard S. Fredman, won a defense verdict in United Pacific Insurance Co. v. ...

Centuries of real property law and two decades of Superfund law hadn't settled the issue. ...

Everyone, at least in the legal community, knows the immense value of the writ of habeas corpus. Over the years, countless inj...

A Marin County dairy rancher recently won a $14.6 million verdict against the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District in a conde...

SAN DIEGO - Civil rights groups say that a task force formed in February to review police use of force is too heavily weighted...

It is somewhat unusual for businesses to seek public disclosure of environmental lawsuits filed against them. However, last ye...

A severely brain-injured musician has an opportunity for rehabilitation thanks to a Los Angeles jury's recent $35 million awar...

RIVERSIDE - Jeffrey Prevost, an Upland civil lawyer and former Riverside County prosecutor, has been named a Riverside County ...

Gov. Gray Davis declined to comment Thursday on the state Supreme Court's refusal to consider his challenge to a 2nd District ...

The Los Angeles Police Department officer recently accused of perjury in a whistle-blower case had testified on behalf of two ...

A father's allegations of physical abuse by his own father when he was a child are relevant in determining who can best care f...

Troops, a lot of what you need to know about the Universal Pictures vs. Mike Myers legal fencing over the aborted "Dieter" pro...

The initial prosecutions in the Rampart scandal were thrown into disarray Thursday when a judge denied a prosecution request t...

Guidelines drafted by the state Department of Education fail to go far enough to prevent sexual harassment at the state's publ...

SAN JOSE - A New York video distributor agreed Wednesday to stop including "R"-rated trailers on videos aimed at children in a...

Suits filed by the recording industry against music-downloading Web sites include the following: ...

Original intent is an unworkable, profoundly anti- democratic theory of constitutional analysis that should be discarded once ...

The movie 'Shaft' is based on the need for an effective judicial system in order to prevent people from taking justice into th...

A criminal defendant does not have the right to cross-examine his victim's therapist at a restitution hearing, the Court of Ap...

Max Grafner Kolliner, retired court arbitrator, died June 27 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89. Kolliner is remembered as ...

A brain-injured ballet dancer, who fought State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. for 10 years for a settlement likely to b...

Constructing its next generation of leadership, Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has tapped litigator Stuart A. Sha...

SANTA ANA - Tenet Healthsystems Desert Inc., a subsidiary of Santa Barbara-based Tenet Healthcare Corp., has filed suit in Ora...