The State Bar these days, unlike the Tareyton smokers in the old cigarette ad, would rather switch than fight. Last month, the...

There's a lot in the newspapers these days about rude lawyers and about how lawyers can do a better job of being civil to each...

Millions of Netizens held their breath last week as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rendered its long-anticipated decisi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gordon & Rees, a firm best-known as a statewide litigation shop, announced that it has acquired a small S...

Effective last Oct. 1, the federal Electronic Signatures and Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq.,...

A recently concluded wireless-spectrum auction raked in a record amount of money, but not without raising a host of legal issu...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association has formally opposed an American Bar Association proposal to encourage st...

SANTA ANA - A judge will decide today whether prosecutors have enough evidence to proceed with the case against an Orange Coun...

PASADENA - Colleagues of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg on Thursday described the embattled jurist as "ou...

RIVERSIDE - A 77-year-old man who chained his emaciated granddaughter to a bed may avoid state prison after pleading guilty to...

SANTA ANA - Orange County officials will have to abide by voter-approved Measure H and spend most of the county's millions in ...

LOS ANGELES - In a symposium Wednesday evening with Elian Gonzalez's lawyers about U.S. asylum laws, Rabbi Harold Schulweis su...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public hospitals can't sue the tobacco industry to recoup the costs of treating smokers' illnesses, the 9th U...

LOS ANGELES - Reyna Maria Luis-Aquino was in bed when the house began to shake. The 16-year-old student thought it was an eart...

LOS ANGELES - Once upon a time in Rainbow Land, a cheerful little sprite named Rainbow Brite donned colorful outfits and main...

SACRAMENTO - If pride goes before a fall, it seems reasonable to infer that vanity plates reading "TRU LIEZ" can go before a ...

The clich of the skateboard-riding, bubble-gum-chewing, barely shaving dot-commer is not dead. Case in point: 16-year-olds And...

The great majority of attorneys come to the negotiation table without solid negotiation training or experience. As a result, s...

LOS ANGELES - Charlre-L Jackson would do just about anything to play in the WNBA - even move 120 miles to play at a new high s...

For most of the past decade, startup and emerging-growth companies rode an unprecedented wave of expansion. Amid almost daily ...

LOS ANGELES - Chicago's Sidley & Austin and New York's Brown & Wood announced Wednesday that they will combine forces....

SACRAMENTO - Attorneys working for state government should not risk losing their jobs and their licenses to practice law when ...

I often hear people say that they find jobs by being at the right place at the right time or that sometimes everything just se...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg lied about his background and about receiving a Purple Heart because he s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors contended for the first time Wednesday that a conspiracy to raise and sell attack dogs existed bet...

SACRAMENTO - A consortium of homeowners and consumer groups urged the Legislature Wednesday to overturn a recent state Supreme...

SAN FRANCISCO - The elevator stopped at the 16th floor and out marched a scruffy band of protesters. They pushed through the d...

California is one of nine states that abide by the community property system, derived from Spanish civil law. In California, a...

The 'D'Sa' decision provides clear guidance and should be carefully followed by California employers. ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge refused to dismiss 19-year-old murder allegations against former Hollywood nightclub owner Eddie...