RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A San Bernardino County judge has denied a woman's claim that she is entitled to a cut of a $6 million Lott...
Personal Injury & Torts
District Settles Teen Girl's Sex-Assault Claims
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Saddleback Valley Unified School District has settled a lawsuit filed by a former teen-age recreation leader who...
SANTA ANA, Calif. - A judge refused Wednesday to dismiss the case against a deputy sheriff accused of destroying videotapes th...
In a sweeping new opinion, the California Supreme Court has made it easier than ever for a plaintiff in a disability-discrimin...
With an e-mail address of Bestlawyer@aol.com, Southern California attorney Steven R. Young doesn't suffer from a lack of confi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors, public defenders and the private defense bar are coming together this evening to raise funds for ...
Counsel's ability to persuade jurors relies heavily on the advocate's communications ability. Communication occurs on many lev...
To help drive home the message that the plaintiff's Toyota performed safely, the defense attorney communicated his points to t...
Judges and Judiciary
O.C. Court Proceeds As Rest of Southland Shutters Its Doors
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., forced Southern California's legal nerve centers to shut...
SAN FRANCISCO - Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York came just three days before thousands of law school applicants were to...
Business partners must trust each other in order to work together for their mutual benefit. A recent $1.2 million bench decisi...
The role of the expert witness in civil litigation is changing. The question is whether advocates will be prepared for the cha...
LOS ANGELES - Law firms around the country shut down Tuesday as people mourned their losses and counted their blessings follow...
LOS ANGELES - Barbara K. Olson, wife of U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson and a well-known lawyer in her own right, die...
WASHINGTON - I saw the face of terror for the first time in my life today, and it was from my car on Washington Boulevard in A...
SAN FRANCISCO - The horrific, four-pronged attack by terrorists on the nation's governmental and commercial institutions struc...
SAN FRANCISCO - A groundbreaking local ordinance, requiring businesses to offer domestic partner benefits to unmarried workers...
SAN FRANCISCO - Justice in San Francisco was temporarily suspended Tuesday. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the E...
LOS ANGELES - Security concerns in the wake of the largest terrorist attack in U.S. history could trigger retaliatory attacks ...
LOS ANGELES - The terrorist acts that rocked the country's economic and political centers Tuesday set the stage for unpreceden...
LOS ANGELES - Downtown Los Angeles became a ghost town Tuesday morning, a sign that the world we thought we knew is gone forev...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the wake of the nation's worst terrorist assault, most California law firms simply closed their doors Tuesd...
SAN FRANCISCO - The jolt of Tuesday's catastrophic news spun Jon B. Eisenberg's mind to the aftermath of the 1963 Kennedy assa...
SANTA ANA - Re/Max, a consumer financing company in Orange County, dupes its customers with false advertising and inadequate d...
Dear Anne: I am the marketing partner at my firm. Recently, my colleagues have been suggesting that spending money on marketin...
The U.S. government's walkout at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intoleranc...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Who Had Two Heart Transplants Dies
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - Retired Riverside Superior Court Judge Jerome E. Stevenson, who sat in Indio and traveled on assignment for two decade...
LOS ANGELES - Corporate attorney Craig Andrews has joined the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins, a move that industry a...
As human cloning technology develops, so does the debate on whether it should continue or be banned. While scientists, medical...