SAN FRANCISCO - A key decision announced Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department clears the way for the official unification ...

Acting on behalf of a Silicon Valley startup that it refused to name, a law firm has asked the Justice Department to investiga...

LOS ANGELES - Somewhere between a mensch and a schnorrer stands famed palimony lawyer Marvin M. Mitchelson. Not that he falls ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was a tax deduction any dummy could love, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned thumbs down on i...

LOS ANGELES - Ben Gales strode into the welfare office on a quiet, grimy street near downtown's industrial district, armed wit...

LOS ANGELES - The smell wafting across Los Angeles this week is from the rotting corpse of the criminal justice system. Even i...

SAN FRANCISCO - There's nothing like the New Year to inspire people to indulge in fortunetelling. In keeping with this oracula...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been a very big year for the nation's largest federal appeals court. Most of its vacancies were filled an...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two of San Francisco's largest firms recently announced their 2001 partner rosters. Recent years have been goo...

LOS ANGELES - Substance abuse is the subject of the Jan. 10 dinner meeting of the L.A. West American Inn of Court. The program...

Jafar Siddiq Hamzah, a U.S. resident and head of the New York-based nongovernmental organization International Forum for Aceh,...

Many defendant companies view buying settlement silence as an economically rational cost of doing business. ...

SANTA ANA - A state appellate court has granted a writ of mandate allowing a man to operate a fleet of taxi cabs in Anaheim, f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Burnham "Ham" Enersen, name partner in the San Francisco firm McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, has died at...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard has gained 11 attorneys from Santochi Gable Dwyer & Takah...

LOS ANGELES - Crispus Attucks Wright, a retired Los Angeles civil attorney and co-founder of the John M. Langston Bar Associat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trailblazing gay-rights attorney Paul F. Wotman died in his home Christmas Day of complications of lymphoma. H...

LOS ANGELES - The civil suits that the Daily Journal's litigation-saturated news hounds found most refreshing in Los Angeles t...

LOS ANGELES - After a century of headline-grabbing trials and record-setting verdicts, Los Angeles Superior Court tiptoed quie...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Superior Court judge who ordered Ford Motor Co. to recall and fix as many as 1.7 million Ca...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $3.3 million to a roofing assistant who suffered severe burns on the job, then fo...

Mediation is the only dispute-resolution process that offers the probability of a solution that includes reconciliation.

LOS ANGELES - The Internal Revenue Service has awarded grants for legal clinics to two Southern California law schools, the on...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Free Clinic will conduct Chapter 7 bankruptcy training on Feb. 10. The five-hour training sessio...

There is no real secret to networking. Most people, myself included, won't admit that we do it. Maybe we think it smacks of ch...

LOS ANGELES - Two dozen people were charged this year with bankruptcy fraud in Southern California - the busiest bankruptcy co...

LOS ANGELES - Indecent exposure and Christmas don't mix. That is the message behind a seasonal class action filed in Los Angel...

LOS ANGELES - Two little girls who were murdered by their mother Wednesday had endured years of abuse and neglect before they ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite legislative efforts to give grandparents a larger role in rearing children from broken homes, elders a...

Given the perceived uncertainty that a Web site faces if it joins Safe Harbor, the 'wait and see' approach may be the dominant...