The 47-acre Chinatown Cornfields rail yard is the largest open space adjacent to downtown Los Angeles, and dozens of civic org...

In another blow to the Internet-based companies that stream music to their customers, a federal judge Wednesday ordered MP3.co...

Although the two cases aren't connected, federal indictments handed down recently in Los Angeles indicate that two attorneys m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer had just five minutes Wednesday to convince the California Supreme Court that af...

Santa Monica lawyers Rae Lamothe and Harold J. Light will be installed as president and president-elect, respectively, of the ...

By John J. Diiulio Jr. and Joseph P. Tierney. America's violent crime rate has fallen by about a third since 1993, but it coul...

Appellate Practice by Ron Cohen and Ronald Steiner. The California courts have also signaled some discomfort with the rules pr...

California Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown will address a luncheon at the County Bar Center later this month. But it was no...

The intake, records and public information areas of four divisions of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District will ...

Republicans have used their control of the U.S. Senate to defeat, curb and delay President Bill Clinton's judicial appointment...

The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control has, for the third year, awarded a grant to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Depa...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Tuesday dismissed marijuana sales charges against five defendants, ruling that the statutor...

RIVERSIDE - An attempted child molestation case that caused a change in the San Bernardino County sheriff's office policies in...

Richard Abbe, a retired 2nd District Court of Appeal justice known for the landmark 1989 decision that further secured the rig...

A Los Angeles personal injury lawyer and his former office manager pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a 71-count federal indictment...

A Glendale man who allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill criminal defense lawyer Theodore S. Flier and his wife, Los Angel...

SACRAMENTO - If three times is a charm, then an attempt to eliminate passage of the "baby bar" as a requirement for students o...

SANTA ANA - Santa Ana City Councilman Ted Moreno was convicted Tuesday of 25 federal counts of conspiring to extort campaign c...

SACRAMENTO - For years people have been talking about bringing reciprocity in bar admissions to the Golden State so that being...

Query: 'What are the three most pressing problems facing the district attorney's office and how do you plan on solving them?' ...

SeaWest WindPower Inc. recently completed a $14 million financing of its Foote Creek IV wind energy project, to be constructed...

Santa Clara's Transmeta Corp. has filed an initial public offering valued at $200 million. The company's chip, the Crusoe proc...

Canada's Nortel Networks Corp. is acquiring Sonoma Systems Inc. of Los Angeles. The $540 million deal should close by year's e...

THE ADVISER Employers must make appropriate classification determinations for each employee and implement employment policies ...

John W. Eldredge sees little difference in drafting a 150-page patent application and sailing the high seas. "Sailboat racing ...

Irvine's Ista Pharmaceuticals went public in an offering valued at $31.5 million. Ista uses a naturally occurring enzyme to de...

Legal Malpractice by Alec H. Boyd and John M. Orr. The unique role played by monitoring counsel raises obvious questions regar...

DICTA By Mark B. Vezzani. Anyone who has spent time in prisons will tell you that inmates can be downright ingenious. ...

With a high-tech merger these days often looking more like a 100-yard dash than a multimillion-dollar transaction, it was K.C....

BOTTOM LINE Law firms might be surprised to learn that nonunion employees have the right to co-worker accompaniment when quest...