Industry Watch - By Bobbi Murray - LOS ANGELES - Veteran construction litigator Stuart J. Einbinder has joined the commercial ...

In what may be the first of many claims against the Los Angeles Police Department stemming from the May 1 immigration rally, a...

After months of legal wrangling, the Securities and Exchange Commission has invoked a rarely used power and filed a subpoena e...

A federal appeals court Friday reinstated a class action against Microsoft and Best Buy, saying the case could go forward unde...

On the Move

Letter to the Editor - I am offended not so much by John C. Eastman's anti-abortion article on April 30 as by the Daily Journa...

Judge Irma Brown wants to see kids succeed and has a deep knowledge of community resources for helping the juveniles in her co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four years after a prison inmate was beaten unconscious by gang members, his attorneys have negotiated a $210...

Attorney Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. helped found a free legal clinic at Los Angeles’ Brookins Community African Methodist Episcopa...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County Superior Court judge insisted Thursday that he is not locked in a feud with the county's distri...

David Rosenzweig, a longtime editor and federal courts reporter for the Los Angeles Times, died of cancer Wednesday at his San...

SACRAMENTO - A former state education worker has won a $7.6 million jury award for injuries suffered when his bosses retaliate...

Forum Column – by Alex Landon – For the past quarter-century, California has been building more prisons to house ever more pri...

Focus Column – By H. Scott Leviant - In Pioneer Electronics, the California Supreme Court reaffirmed and strengthened i...

Web Exclusive - An attorney stiffed by an ungrateful client finally gets a payday for his "extraordinary efforts," courtesy of...

SAN FRANCISCO - V. Gene McDonald has been a neutral at JAMS for 10 years, but his career as a professional case-settler didn't...

Forum Column – By Donald Kilmer - As long as those advocating “common-sense” gun control are perceived as the same people poun...

Employment Column – By D. Gregory Valenza - Employers must schedule meal periods and rest breaks with care. The Supreme Court’...

LOS ANGELES - A U.S. district judge has told prosecutors to reconsider their decision to seek the death penalty in a murder-an...

Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, second in command to Alberto Gonzales, told lawmakers that, before he left office ...

California workers hurt on the job lost their bid for bigger compensation awards Thursday, as the state Supreme Court handed a...

Disbarments, resignations and suspensions.

District Attorney Steve Cooley celebrated his 60th birthday this week by hosting a $500,000 birthday dinner for his re-electio...

Congress last year suspended habeas corpus rights for suspected terrorists detainted at Guantanamo Bay. Now that the U.S. Su...

LOS ANGELES - Vanderbilt University law professor Robert K. Rasmussen has been named dean of USC's Gould School of Law, ending...

Juvenile Court Judge Michael D. Coughlan shares stories of his childhood poverty when he works with the youth who appear befor...

The general counsel for a San Diego software company has joined the growing ranks of in-house attorneys indicted on corporate ...

Focus Column – By Lincoln D. Bandlow - More than an Apprentice or Average Joe should draft the participants’ release if a real...

REDLANDS - Loma Linda Behavioral Medicine Center has shelled out $2 million to settle claims that it fraudulently billed feder...

An insurer that failed to settle a personal-injury lawsuit within the limits of its policy must pay $7.2 million to an Emeryvi...