LOS ANGELES - In the latest backlash against lawyers abusing the state's unfair competition law, a Moreno Valley law firm is i...

HEMET - Riverside County Superior Court Commissioner Pamela A. Thatcher listened intently recently as a police officer defende...

LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney Alan J. Jackson has been assigned as co-prosecutor in the murder case against music pro...

EMERYVILLE - Fremont Investment & Loan provided a $109 million acquisition and construction loan to Port Kihei Investments...

LOS ANGELES - City officials didn't think much of Jorge Hernandez's claim that Los Angeles police officers falsely arrested an...

Focus Column - By Peter M. Stone and Jay C. Gandhi - Having not reviewed an issue concerning private securities litigation for...

Letter to the Editor - For decades, we never questioned the long sentences men received for having sex with minor girls. But n...

Letter to the Editor - Regarding "In Support of 'Tookie': Distortions of Fact, Distortions of Justice" (Dec. 15 Daily Journal)...

Forum Column - By Kirsten Schlenger - Preserving competitiveness is at the heart of many U.S. domestic and foreign policy deci...

SAN FRANCISCO - You've made a list and checked it twice, but have you forgotten your favorite lawyer? Here are some gift idea...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael M. Roddy, a longtime court administrator currently serving as regional director for the California cou...

LOS ANGELES - Steven J. Ipsen, the outspoken Los Angeles County prosecutor, was re-elected in a landslide 344-40 vote to his ...

LOS ANGELES - Longtime Los Angeles attorney Michele Wein Layne has been promoted to one of the top posts at the U.S. Securitie...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kirk Dublin, a 27-year veteran litigator and former managing partner of Seattle's Preston, Gates & Ellis,...

SAN JOSE - A Redwood Shores company that provides mobile e-mail service filed a federal lawsuit last week alleging that Micros...

LOS ANGELES - For some, Judge James R. Dunn's professional life might seem like a roller-coaster ride. The California native r...

LOS ANGELES - Paralegal Carol J. King, who helps poor people file family law cases in Bakersfield, is outraged by the Legislat...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the third time, a federal appeals court Friday rebuffed prosecutors' attempt to increase the sentence of ...

PROBATIONS Boyd, John Roberts , Irvine Gernsbacher, David L. , Beverly Hills Pecel, Alexander J. , Valencia PUBLIC REPROVALS D...

LOS ANGELES - Robin D. Ball has joined Chadbourne & Parke as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. Ball's practice f...

WALNUT CREEK - GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corp. provided $65 million in floating-rate financing for a condominium-conversion pro...

Employment Column - By Mary Dollarhide - If you thought discovery was the bane of your existence before, here is a preview of ...

Forum Column - By Antonio R. Sarabia II - Some of the biggest and most complex litigation involves class action cases. It is c...

Focus Column - By Allan K.A. Marson and Joseph Helmers - On Oct. 27, China's National People's Congress overhauled the Company...

LOS ANGELES - Retired tax attorney Robert M. Barton, who practiced law in Los Angeles for more than 50 years, has died. Barto...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has ruled that eight men, including the brothers of an alleged victim, could testify in the ...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer and former lawyer pleaded guilty to conspiracy Wednesday in connection with several schemes to embezzle...

LOS ANGELES - As an attorney and a businessman, Roy H. Aaron found it painful to watch the uncertainty and fighting that accom...

LOS ANGELES - Andy Westley turned his iPod battery problem into a $20 million class-action settlement. As a result of his att...

SAN FRANCISCO - As Farinaz Zahrai headed from her El Cerrito home, she told her bosses at the U.S. Department of Labor she was...