Dicta Column - Management Matters - By Blane R. Prescott - As the economy changes pace, more firms than ever are shifting thei...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Ethan K. Friedman - Code of Civil Procedure Section 1263.120 provides that the date of valua...

SAN DIEGO - Deputy District Attorney Jeff B. Dusek has his trial face on as he walks with unhurried efficiency down the corrid...

Forum Column - By Julie L. Vogt - Contrary to the contentions of critics of the U.S. Supreme Court's student drug-testing deci...

LOS ANGELES -The Church of Christ in Hollywood may not be able to silence a dissenting voice, but it can keep that voice from ...

LOS ANGELES - The law firm of Manning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez will sponsor a blood drive for an off-duty Los Angel...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - In Ring v. Arizona , 2002 DJDAR 7047 (U.S. June 24, 2002), the Supreme Court held...

WASHINGTON - At the Supreme Court, familiarity breeds repetition. After eight terms together, the current nine justices have ...

LOS ANGELES - The person who might be the least worked up over last week's federal court ruling to strike the words "under God...

LOS ANGELES - He's an unassuming "Oregon cowboy" and a retired Army captain from World War II who favors Vanna White and, much...

LOS ANGELES - A defendant on the losing end of a special motion to strike under California's anti-SLAPP statute is entitled to...

LOS ANGELES - The state's judicial watchdog agency Tuesday opened a formal inquiry into allegations that a former Los Angeles ...

Column by Andrew W. Volin - The many different federal statutes affecting employment, and the complex structure of those statu...

RIVERSIDE - In a written response Tuesday to accusations by the Commission on Judicial Performance, Judge Arthur Block admitte...

SAN BERNARDINO - The Board of Supervisors gave itself permission in a final vote Tuesday to discipline or oust locally elected...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - One thing was lost in the headline news over the U.S. Supreme Court's two landmark d...

WASHINGTON - In the blame game following the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history, some of those investigated in government...

RIVERSIDE - Deputy public defenders in Riverside County have decided to unionize in an effort to gain pay and benefits parity ...

SACRAMENTO - A Los Angeles judge's ruling has highlighted a serious flaw in a landmark statute that was supposed to make it mu...

SAN DIEGO - Neighbors of David A. Westerfield on Tuesday told how they talked casually with the 50-year-old self-employed engi...

WASHINGTON - Things are looking up for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - at least, judging by its performance at the U....

Focus Column - By Paul D. Fogel and Benjamin G. Shatz - For some time now, the Courts of Appeal have admonished litigants that...

LOS ANGELES - In a raid that began Tuesday, Los Angeles' Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith is expected to take as many as ...

WASHINGTON - Things are looking up for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - at least, judging by its performance at the U.S...

WASHINGTON - At the Supreme Court, familiarity breeds repetition. After eight terms together, the current nine justices have s...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky In Ring v. Arizona , 2002 DJDAR 7047 (U.S. June 24, 2002), the Supreme Court held t...

SAN DIEGO - Two animal DNA experts testified Monday in a closed hearing that interrupted the trial of David A. Westerfield, wh...

Dicta Column - By Elizabeth Lampert - It almost doesn't matter whether 2002 turns out to be a boom year or a bust. Competition...

Column by Garry Abrams - Never trust a strip club to pay its bills. That's the eternal lesson Ana Bernardi learned earlier thi...

LOS ANGELES - London-based Clifford, Chance, Rogers & Wells opened four California offices Monday after a weekend raid of ...