LOS ANGELES - The Santa Monica City Council tentatively has approved a landmark, but possibly unconstitutional, ordinance that...

SAN FRANCISCO - Life is a circle, or so it seems for San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charles F. "Chuck" Haines. Appointed t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court's endorsement of secret military trials for World War II saboteurs does not give Presid...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to uphold a 1998 law protecting minors from sexually explicit Internet m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Newly minted state Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno, the high court's first Hispanic in 12 years and onl...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a rare order permitting its proceedings to be televised, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday granted ...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court delivered the second blow Wednesday to state laws that grant police officers the right to fil...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Ronald P. Givner, a securities specialist who died unexpectedly two weeks ago. Giv...

Employers contemplating facility closings or reductions in force as a means of coping with the current business downturn must ...

As we are all aware, on Sept. 11, the United States was attacked by terrorists. However, a potentially more harmful attack occ...

The ability to negotiate is central to good lawyering. But there are many psychological, cognitive and emotional forces at wor...

Every major recession brings new winners and new losers, a reshuffling of the "have" and "have not" firms. Here are some near ...

U.S. agencies involved in protecting the borders have been criticized because almost all 19 of the suspected hijackers easily ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday demanded answers from a senior Department of Justice official about P...

LOS ANGELES - After only two years with Greines Martin Stein & Richland, former Los Angeles County Bar Association Preside...

Police raided a motel suite in Gardena expecting to find a cache of illegal drugs. Instead, a cop shot a 51-year-old man who h...

Carrying a hefty trial caseload and can't find time to work out? Slaving over discovery in a chilly law office, breathing reci...

I have been a prosecutor since 1974, and I prosecuted the Richard Allen Davis trial for the kidnap-murder of Polly Klaas. I ha...

Business attorneys around the world are moving rapidly into new business structures that include nonattorney partners. Busines...

Some litigators are simply frustrated actors. But Southern California attorney James M. Epstein says he's living the Hollywood...

LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline is scheduled to be indicted by a federal grand jury today on cha...

SAN FRANCISCO - The insurance industry has dodged a bullet over claims its house counsel practices are illegal, thanks to a Lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service will be held Saturday for Donald S. Tayer, general counsel for the national office of the A...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has tapped O'Melveny & Myers litigation partner Cheryl White Mason to head hi...

RIVERSIDE - A developmentally disabled San Bernardino County boy has filed a federal lawsuit against the county's probation de...

SAN FRANCISCO - The historic horsehide Barry Bonds smacked into the right-field bleachers to set a new major league home-run ...

SAN DIEGO - A disabled man whose service dog was attacked by the Escondido library's pet cat has sued the city for $1.5 millio...

Imagine the following nightmare scenario: After months of negotiations and painful due diligence, your client is ready to clos...

In many ways, committed lesbian and gay relationships used to be invisible to the legal system. Case after case treated same-s...