DICTA What to consider when making the decision to go 'business-casual.' Page 8. By Kimberly Quackenbush In corporate America,...

SAN DIEGO - A veteran prosecutor with anti-gang experience in two Southern California counties will lead the state attorney ge...

^^Employment Law^^ No Conscience Court Holds One-Sided Agreement Between Circuit City and Employee Unenforceable Ultimately, t...

SACRAMENTO - With the Los Angeles Police Department ensnared in the worst corruption scandal of its history, California's poli...

A malicious prosecution action against Best Best & Krieger and one of its clients was transferred Wednesday out of Los Ang...

After being lured to Charlston , Revich & Williams with assurances of an equity partnership, a six-figure annual salary an...

By Fred Silberberg Most California law students learn that, if a lender looks to community property in extending credit, that ...

PC Giveaway Offering Home Computers to the Workforce By Barrett K. Green and Mark A. Romeo The great PC giveaway has begun. Th...

Arming for its legal battle with the Los Angeles Unified School District, O'Melveny & Myers claims that methane at the now...

Without comment, the Los Angeles City Council Wednesday allocated $44 million to a reserve fund to pay settlements, including ...

Los Angeles Police Department corruption may date back farther and spread wider than former officer-turned-whistle blower Rafa...

INDIO - When Narcisco Medina asked for an attorney on the eve of his burglary trial, he had already been through no fewer than...

SAN FRANCISCO - The facts of the case fit a made-for-television drama. A wife is accused of killing her husband to prevent him...

What is the ultimate value of 25 percent of nothing? That was the Zen-like riddle posed Wednesday in, of all places, a Los Ang...

Services were held Sunday for Robert Steven Apfelberg, a bankruptcy specialist and real estate attorney. Apfelberg died Thursd...

Davis, Wright & Tremaine has been sued for more than $7.5 million for allegedly mishandling a family dispute over the oper...

SAN DIEGO - A criminal defense lawyer who served 14 years on a U.S. District Court panel of conflict attorneys in the Southern...

By Jennifer C. Pizer Now that the Knight Initiative has passed, creating a unique exclusion in California's law, which otherwi...

A Los Angeles jury has ordered New York-based Herzfeld & Rubin to pay nearly $1 million to a woman the firm represented at...

It's a grand old house - with large rooms, a fireplace, gleaming hardwood floors and a sparkling white kitchen - and it sits o...

By Ramona Ripston It's a sad day when a majority of Californians vote in favor of discrimination. That is what Prop. 22 is, pu...

A woman whose 13-year-old son died in a school fistfight filed a $10 million wrongful death and civil rights complaint Tuesday...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors, who decided the country's two biggest cigarette manufacturers defrauded the public by misrepresenting ...

Services have been held for Linda Kippen, assistant division chief of the county courthouse in Van Nuys. Kippen died Saturday ...

SANTA ANA - The 4th District Court of Appeal in San Diego has ordered Orange County to pay $474,000 in attorney fees to two gr...

By Kevin Notre Soon a same-gender union entered into in Vermont will entitle a same-gender couple to obtain the same benefits ...

The South Bay Bar Association has honored Superior Court Judge Susan Finlay , who retired from the bench last week after 20 ye...

SAN FRANCISCO - Philosophically polarized positions became obvious Tuesday on an 11-judge federal appeals panel that is decidi...

The Los Angeles district attorney's office said Tuesday - in its strongest defense yet to criticisms that it blew an opportuni...

SACRAMENTO - Handing a rare court victory to one state agency over another, a judge has ordered the Fair Employment and Housin...