Employment Column - By Laurel G. Kaufer - Employment disputes frequently are infused with intense emotion, which often hinders...

LOS ANGELES - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher gave its reputable bankruptcy practice a boost when it acquired Richard M. Cieri to ...

Forum Column - By James Acret - Licensing laws are anathema to libertarians. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Matthew G. Ball - In the last five months of 2002, state appellate courts decided three cases t...

LOS ANGELES - Brian Lysaght did not mince words describing to a Malibu jury the behavior of Debra Pole and William Fitzgerald ...

SANTA ANA - It's a quarter to five on Tuesday evening and, as thousands of commuters are settling in for another arduous freew...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Daily Journal staff writer Stefanie Knapp has been honored by the California Teachers Association fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Police Commission on Thursday named longtime deputy public defender Kevin Allen as interim ...

LOS ANGELES - An alleged gang member was convicted Thursday of assaulting a prosecutor but acquitted of attempted murder in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state attorney general's office has decided not to challenge the reversal of the double-murder conviction...

LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group filed hundreds of unfair competition lawsuits against small-business owners out of greed, not i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick O'Hern, who handled government contracts and other transactional work as deputy chief counsel for Law...

SAN FRANCISCO - Breaking with 150 years of tradition, state officials announced Thursday that they have hired LexisNexis to p...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Justice found that Los Angeles County's three juvenile halls are in violation of numerous...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in San Diego got what they wanted earlier this year when a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco lawyer says the U.S. Supreme Court forced him to junk his plan to challenge a judge's $25 mil...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to step into the long-running battle over what constitutes Napa...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Most insurance policies contain provisions requiring that an insured notify...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard S. Reisberg - To understand the entertainment industry's approach t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial for the late Sheldon Messinger, a UC Berkeley administrator and retired Boalt Hall faculty member ...

LOS ANGELES - Family-law experts Wednesday praised the decision to publish an appellate court ruling rebuking a family-court c...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday on some provisions aimed at limiting independent campaign spending b...

Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - Academic journals are not easily born. That's particularly true right now: Budgets...

MALIBU - Two former partners have abandoned their unified defense with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison against $30 million in ...

SAN BERNARDINO - For decades, the aging downtown San Bernardino courthouse has been a cramped, crowded eyesore, with its crack...

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking on a major cyberspace case, a state appellate panel appeared divided Wednesday over allowing defamatio...

Column By Garry Abrams - Just thinking about the hectic pre-arrest life of accused double agent Katrina Leung of San Marino ma...

LOS ANGELES - During their Holy Week vigil outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, alleged survivors of clergy sex ab...

SACRAMENTO - The chambers of Sacramento Superior Court Judge Talmadge R. Jones are like a museum of Western cultural artifacts...

Focus Column Intellectual Property By Robert B. Burlingame On March 28, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued proposed ...