The genius of the American constitutional system is its recognition that mixing church and state damages both religion and dem...

The Daily Journal asks lawyers what they would do if the lights went out. ...

The reasons Mayor Richard Riordan first gave for his Feb. 5 firing of Los Angeles Police Commission President Gerald L. Chalef...

LOS ANGELES - Inglewood and Torrance courthouses on Monday joined 19 others around Los Angeles County that have implemented th...

LOS ANGELES - The family of an 83-year-old New Jersey man killed early last month in the crash of Angels Flight in downtown Lo...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Studio City entertainment attorney Harden C. Bennion. Bennion died March 2...

WASHINGTON - Randy and Valerie Pech, the white owners of Adarand Constructors Inc., a Denver construction firm specializing in...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge declined Monday to be drawn into a head-on confrontation over the ticklish question of whether...

SAN FRANCISCO - Large out-of-state corporations doing substantial business in California may be facing a legal brick wall when...

LOS ANGELES - The smirking white supremacist who boasted of shooting minorities two years ago was not in evidence Monday as Bu...

LOS ANGELES - Normally, the Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles does not rival Disneyland as the happiest place o...

"A reasonable solution seems obvious: hold a true 'public' execution - allow a public broadcast." Timothy McVeigh, in a Feb. 1...

Among actions announced Monday, March 26, 2001 by the justices were:

GATX Capital Corp. has purchased the U.S. information technology lease portfolio of El Camino Resources Ltd. The deal, which c...

Just months after snapping up a new West Coast intellectual property head, Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has added two ...

Supermarket giant Safeway Inc. recently completed $1.2 billion in senior notes financing. Pleasanton-based Safeway is one of N...

San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps has apparently decided that one local office is not enough. On March 1, the fi...

The fierce Los Angeles corporate firm Irell & Manella started 2001 with the changeover of five lawyers in its 16-member ex...

Rich Doyle, former general counsel for Gamut Interactive - a startup that's been put on ice due to lack of funding - has bounc...

On Command Corp. has bought a controlling interest in Hotel Digital Network Inc. The amount of the cash, stock and continuing-...

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2. How many times hav...

Mill Valley's Chavez & Gertler has earned a national reputation for specializing in high-profile consumer class actions. R...

Palo Alto's PayPal, an Internet payment provider, has raised $90 million in Series D equity financing. The investment gives th...

One person's misery is, as they say, another person's gain. And to tell you the truth it's pretty miserable out there. In the ...

After a decade away, corporate lawyer Steve Rowles has returned to his old stomping grounds at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison....

SAN FRANCISCO - Louis P. Bergna, who during his 25-year stint as the Santa Clara district attorney earned a reputation for hig...

Help desk software company Peregrine Systems Inc. will buy e-commerce software maker Extricity Inc. The stock deal is worth $1...

Partners at the Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo voted Jay Gallagher back into the firmwide chair spot. Gallagher, a...

Like everyone else in Hollywood, this columnist has been watching Intertainment Licensing GmbH v. Franchise Pictures wi...

In every episode of the TV show "NYPD Blue," there's a scene when the scuzzbag perp doesn't want to give up the information to...