LOS ANGELES - Mark H. Jones, a partner with the West Los Angeles firm Ruben & Jones and an avid rock climber, has died. Jo...

The federal investigation into Death Row Records may have begun twitching back to life over the last few days. Little birdies ...

LOS ANGELES - Last week, between wrapping up cases and packing boxes, U.S. District Judge Carlos R. Moreno of Los Angeles was ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to examine the use of binding arbitration to resolve attorney-cl...

SAN DIEGO - A private investigator accused in the 1998 torture and murder in Mexico of his boss pleaded guilty Wednesday to on...

OAKLAND - A judge has ordered Oakland, Alameda County and the Oakland Coliseum to pay the Oakland Raiders $84,000 in sanctions...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wartnick, Chaber, Harowitz & Tigerman, one of the Bay Area's leading product liability litigation firms, w...

LOS ANGELES - To hear some members of the defense bar talk, class actions that seek unpaid overtime from employers represent a...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - After finishing his prison term for rape in 1996, Ronald Rogers didn't go free. Instead, prosecutors convinc...

The first thing Brentwood attorney Joseph P. Wohrle wants visitors to know about his practice is that his assistant, Ignacio "...

Advocates of the war on drugs have used the recent terrorist catastrophe to urge expansion of the drug war. But as we embark o...

Over the past year, the Food and Drug Administration and the Office of Human Research Protections of the Department of Health ...

Southern California neutral Bruce W. Dodds admits he's not as empathetic as some other mediators might be in certain situation...

VIEWPOINT: On some days, trial lawyers feel like they can conquer the world, but on others, they feel like the world is conque...

VIEWPOINT: Construction-defect cases are rife with unsympathetic clients: the contractor who builds a shoddy apartment complex...

Is giving Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants face time on American television news broadcasts rendering aid and comfort to th...

Cutting clients' losses by settling lawsuits during unproductive discovery is sometimes a good strategy. It could protect them...

OAKLAND - An Oakland judge has ruled that two California men on the verge of death may proceed with product liability suits ag...

LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge Tuesday denied bail to a former Beverly Hills attorney, who was arrested Friday for t...

VENTURA - How do you follow a legend? For Michael Planet, the new executive officer for the Ventura County Superior Court, it'...

SAN FRANCISCO - Barring any last-minute surprises, California Supreme Court nominee Carlos Moreno is poised to sail through h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Anyone interested in a recently filed San Francisco Superior Court civil lawsuit can now simply log onto a Web...

LOS ANGELES - In response to the threat of mail being used as a vehicle for terrorism, the Los Angeles Superior Court is train...

Credit is fundamental to our society. It is a powerful driver of economic growth and helps many afford the long-term needs of ...

In In Re John of Kerneslawe, Assize Court of Northumberland County, Northumberland Assize Rolls, 7 Edward I (1279), the...

In approaching law and motion matters and especially oral argument, it is important to remember that you want to make it as ea...

SACRAMENTO - Three important DNA testing measures were among the hundreds of bills Gov. Gray Davis signed or vetoed in his pus...

SACRAMENTO - For the third straight year, Gov. Gray Davis has vetoed legislation that would have increased workers' compensati...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Lazarus has had his eye on the city attorney's office since he first set foot in City Hall 26 years ago. ...

LOS ANGELES - Renting a truck, applying for a pilot's license, buying bags of fertilizer: Are they mundane workaday activities...