By Gary Abrams - A smelly little fish has blossomed into a stinking, rotting whale. And maybe we've only had the first whiff. ...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors worry jurors may sympathize with the 81-year-old Orange County woman who claims she killed a man to p...

LOS ANGELES - Former Fleishman-Hillard executive Doug Dowie alleges in court documents that he was fired last year as part of ...

LOS ANGELES - In 1980, inmate Larry "Zoom" Roberts was set for release on parole from the state prison at Vacaville following ...

CAMPAIGN FINES - The state's political watchdog agency on Monday fined the Los Angeles trial lawyers group and a San Francisco...

LOS ANGELES - Joel R. Bennett and Matthew J. Fairshter have shuttered their Pasadena business litigation practice and joined ...

LOS ANGELES - One hundred years ago, 25-year-old Alexander Wallace Rutan came from the East Coast to the orange groves of Ora...

TORRANCE - A Denver-based private investment group purchased Hamilton Place, a 250,025-square-foot office building at 20101 Ha...

LOS ANGELES - Former Judge Kenneth Starr, best-known for his stint as independent counsel investigating President Clinton, is ...

Forum Column - By Joshua P. Davis - The most interesting issues before the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Oregon , 126 S.Ct. 904...

Forum Column - By Norman Abrams - Most legal scholars and members of Congress assume that the National Security Agency's White...

Letter to the Editor - Your publication of a reader's response to an earlier constitutional law article by my special counsel,...

Focus Column - By William E. Winfield - Among the recent amendments to the Bankruptcy Code are some changes that are very bene...

SANTA ANA - The Los Angeles Times will pay $3.2 million to a bicyclist because a delivery driver ran him down while driving o...

LOS ANGELES - Ivy Kagan Bierman, an entertainment labor lawyer, has joined Loeb & Loeb in Los Angeles as a partner. Bierm...

LOS ANGELES - Berger Kahn, a 65-attorney law firm with four offices, continues the expansion of its business and corporate pr...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John P. Doyle sits in chambers filled with family photos, golf balls and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyer, activist and author Oscar Acosta is perhaps best known as the sidekick to the late Hunter S. Thompson,...

SAN BERNARDINO - In 30 years as a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge, Patrick J. Morris made a name for himself start...

SALARIES UP - Sullivan & Cromwell is increasing associate salaries by $20,000, sources said Friday. The move by the New Yo...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Peter S. Smith has been honored for his novel, "The Magistrates....

LOS ANGELES - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has announced that it has appointed partner Susan E. Hollander as co-manager of th...

SAN JOSE - A federal appellate court has given the government a boost in one of the first cases in the nation to test a 1996 ...

CUPERTINO - Archstone-Smith purchased a 311-unit apartment community for $88 million. Archstone-Smith funded the acquisition p...

LOS ANGELES - For Mayela Rodriguez, the smell is constant, oppressive, inescapable. "It smells like garbage," she said through...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas Dandurand admits that, as a young man, he never really intended to go into law. "I always thought I'd b...

Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - The year 2005 was a slow one for employment legislation, requiring little updat...

Letter to the Editor - In an Op-Ed piece originally printed in The New York Times and reprinted in the Daily Journal on Jan. 2...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - "I certainly appreciate your concern, and I would appreciate anything that you can d...

Focus Column - By John Sturgeon - Your kid may not be the only nuisance in town. Others may include your neighbor's overhangin...