On the heels of the NFL draft comes a different line-up of young and talented players. And while the selections for California...

LOS ANGELES - In an attempt to help voters find out who is behind the big-money hit mailers, automated phone calls and other c...

SAN FRANCISCO - As he prepares to take over this week as president of the International Trademark Association - an influential...

SAN FRANCISCO - With six months to go before the election, the field of candidates for city attorney has taken on another new ...

SACRAMENTO - Five plaintiffs' firms stand to lose $88.5 million in attorneys' fees unless they can successfully appeal a judge...

LOS ANGELES - A San Diego trial judge and an appellate justice who clashed over the landmark 1995 case that ultimately allowed...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nine groups representing consumers, agriculture and large industry have been named to a ratepayer committee in...

What's it all about, Voltaire? Whose scared cow is being gored now? What are we going to do about the scourge of the political...

San Francisco's interim public defender, Kimiko Burton, is both blessed and cursed with a famous name. While her family has a ...

In the recent decision Manduley v. Superior Court, 86 Cal.App.4th 1198 (Cal. App. 4th Dist. 2001), a San Diego appellat...

LOS ANGELES - The Directors Guild of America has filed a federal lawsuit against a Huntington Beach man, alleging that he regi...

LOS ANGELES - Fellow judicial officers paid tribute Friday to the memory of retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James R. Dooley, the...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's current term may seem all downhill after last December's dramatic 5-4 decision that effective...

A wave of shutdowns is pounding the dot-com world once again, with at least 55 Internet companies closing their doors in April...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for retired San Gabriel attorney and teacher Dennis C. Modjeski. Modjeski died Mo...

High-tech companies don't have much luck these days. First, venture-capital firms, once so free in their funding, are closing ...

The legal profession has experienced strong expansion in the last 10 years. This growth was fueled by an ample supply of clien...

While 1.4 million people in the United States will be affected by divorce this year, the question remains: What can yet anoth...

Five years ago, Miramax 's "The English Patient" was a surprise box office hit, topping off its improbable success with an Osc...

If I had to write a book chronicling the years 2000 and 2001, I'd title it, "How the Y2K Bug Bit Wall Street." The unprecedent...

Class-action law developed with careful consideration for the due process rights of absent class members. Because absent membe...

In almost every state capital across the United States, a process is unfolding that will help determine the composition of the...

Within hours after actor Robert Downey Jr. was busted on suspicion of drugs in Culver City, David E. Kelley, the producer of "...

If it were not for the Internet, Kenneth Curtis certainly would be out of business. Banned by a 2-year-old state law aimed spe...

SACRAMENTO - A plaintiffs' lawyer who has won huge verdicts against Ford Motor Co. and the Roman Catholic Church was tapped We...

SAN FRANCISCO - Louise Renne may not be in the running to remain city attorney, but by no means is she out of the race. As the...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge J.D. Smith has won a key battle in his war with CalPERS over military credits t...

CORONA - Leave it to the state that brought you sig alerts and courthouse congestion to combine the two. Corona officials Thur...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a decision giving millions of elderly people new power to sue their health insurers, the California Supreme...

SAN FRANCISCO - A killing spree inside a San Francisco law firm spawned the nation's first posse of lawyer activists dedicated...