Imagine being an abused or neglected child. The danger is so severe that county social workers remove you from your home and p...

LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday reduced bail for a former personal injury lawyer accused of bilking clients of more than $3.5 mi...

Patrick McNicholas remembers the first time he visited his father's law office. "All I saw was files and paper work. I said, '...

SAN JOSE - The lawyer for a Santa Clara County family court psychologist told a judge Tuesday that the $170,000 in attorneys f...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted a federal drug agent in Los Angeles on charges of taking bribes from private i...

The credibility counsel portrays in the courtroom is a tool that can affect success in front of a jury, as jurors focus on a n...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied review of a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that plaintiffs...

LOS ANGELES - Back in the 1950s, when Earl K. Long governed Louisiana like a third-rate banana republic, Daniel J. O'Brien's f...

LOS ANGELES - Two teen-age boys whom the district attorney's office wants to call as witnesses in a special-circumstances murd...

SACRAMENTO - With Lyle's eyes focused unwaveringly on the rubber ball, Karen lobbed it 40 feet down the long hallway of her ho...

WASHINGTON - "Welcome to the pit," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., told his friend and former colleague John Ashcroft Tuesday as A...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller tapped seven current staffers for promotion Tuesday in a reshuffling of the offic...

LOS ANGELES - A simple note taped to Benjamin Lopez's office door greets him when he arrives for work each day: "The shortest ...

Among actions announced Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2001 by the justices were:

Any one who thinks that Hollywood actors, writers and directors are invariably flakes should spend some time with Jason Sloane...

SACRAMENTO - The Fair Political Practices Commission has adopted guidelines and emergency regulations to help candidates in th...

San Francisco's Jackson & Wallace spread the cheer this last holiday season with a compact disc recording of lawyers and s...

Santa Clara's Sparkolor Corp., a developer of optical networking components and modules, has closed its first round of funding...

Costa Mesa's Emulex Corp. will buy Giganet Inc. of Concord, Mass. The stock deal is worth $645 million. Publicly held Emulex d...

While most of America spent Thanksgiving gorging on turkey and college football, Robert Steinberg was busy meeting a tight dea...

Peregrine Systems Inc. has agreed to purchase the network management software assets of Tivoli Systems Inc. for $105 million. ...

Alan Snyder, an Irvine sole practitioner, has been admitted into the Commercial Law League of America. Based in Chicago, the C...

Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $75 million. San Diego-based ACADIA Pharmaceuti...

The eternal debate in deposition-taking is whether or not one should cross-examine a witness or party when that person gives a...

Over at Christensen Miller Fink Jacobs Glaser Weil & Shapiro, founding partner Peter Weil has led the legal team for one o...

Attorney Theodor C. Albert received the second annual Hon. Peter M. Elliott award before the Orange County's bankruptcy commun...

Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips is shoring up its government and international trade and policy practice unit with t...

The global transfer of economic and political power from national governments to multinational corporations is a disaster for ...

Now half of the giant Pillsbury Winthrop law firm, then-Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, received the top award for the 2000 "Ko...

LOS ANGELES - Services have been conducted for Joseph Francis Bender, a retired senior partner with Schell & Delamer in Lo...