SAN FRANCISCO - A critical federal judge on Thursday whittled off $317,947 in excessive and dubious charges for legal and acco...

LOS ANGELES - The new Los Angeles office of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker won't be very far from its current location. B...

In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, nonprofit fund-raisers are trying to assess how the more than $1.3 billion in private don...

Prospective employers expect that you have done your homework before you set foot in their offices for your first interview. I...

On June 7, President George W. Bush signed into law the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. The provisi...

Michael E. Ford's recent article argued that the reason that most folks can't afford lawyers is because there aren't enough of...

You may have heard the old adage that the less experienced the deposition taker, the more detailed the deposition outline. Whi...

The past few decades have seen dramatic changes in the legal profession, including the rise of the megafirm, the demise of fir...

WASHINGTON - As Osama bin Laden's videotaped "confession" gripped viewers throughout the world Thursday, legal experts express...

Every January, prudent attorneys check to see if they have to send in a report regarding their minimum continuing legal educat...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to release a serial rapist from a state mental hospital, settin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick and West is re-inventing its management structure in an effort to restore the agility it had as a smal...

LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $433,000 to settle a civil rights claim against an off-duty Los Angele...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco disclosed Wednesday that it is questioning at least 85 aliens in t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The mailers apparently worked. As maritime lawyer Dennis Herrera roared back from a big deficit to win electio...

SAN FRANCISCO - Angela Bradstreet, the new president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, occasionally wears a glass brooc...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved a $1.1 million settlement to the wife and children of a...

One of the nice things about being both a pugnacious litigator and a novelist is that you can impose ruthless retroactive reve...

SAN FRANCISCO - KPFA fans didn't like the news, so - following the adage of longtime staffer Larry Bensky - they went out and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The three-year probation term handed to patent attorney Malcolm Wittenberg last week for insider stock trading...

The holiday season is here, and it's almost the end of a year that we would prefer to forget. The holidays also have their eff...

The noted American philosopher Eric Hoffer once said: "[T]he only way to predict the future is to have the power to shape the ...

It is shocking that three officers connected to the Rampart scandal have sued the city and county of Los Angeles for malicious...

Outside of California, the doctrine of inevitable disclosure has been used successfully by employers to prevent former employe...

James Friery is a physical education teacher at Van Nuys High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He happens to...

DENVER - Thousands of American lawyers will step up to represent the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the largest ...

DENVER - After the Sept. 11 attacks, Americans gave unprecedented amounts of money to charities to help the victims. At the sa...

DENVER - The nation's first state-established victim-compensation program already is processing claims from Sept. 11 victims. ...

Counsel and parties in settlement negotiations often balk, saying they won't negotiate against themselves. They usually object...

On cross-examination, the attorney got a defense witness to concede that the employer had a "lousy" record of promoting women ...