LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks reversed his long-standing position Friday that he should b...

LOS ANGELES - With a federal investigation of the treatment of kids in juvenile detention facilities beginning in Los Angeles ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal appeals panel that has been pondering Napster Inc.'s future for nearly five months announced Frida...

As the economy has cooled, law firms once again are beefing up their bankruptcy departments for the anticipated onslaught of ...

The Solid Waste case has limited the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers in the area of wetlands protection.

The link between animal abuse and harm to humans was tragically illustrated by the Jan. 29 death of a 33-year-old woman in San...

LOS ANGELES - More Boalt Hall graduates passed the latest California Bar Exam the first time around than any other American Ba...

The 'Yahoo!' case shall have wide-ranging implications for the exercise of national jurisdiction internationally in the contex...

"Age matters." Paul Haas, a senior vice president at talent agency International Creative Management, made this comment in an ...

Steven Rothschild laughs when he thinks how much money it took to drive Furniture.com into the ground. "After $100 million, th...

Engineer Vincent Malgapo was shocked to arrive at work earlier this week and find that his former employer, Qualcomm, wants to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael A. Kahn is becoming a very busy man. Already a name partner at his firm and a member of Gov. Gray Davi...

I've not seen much written about the fear of courtroom appearances. I'm thinking of the Hemingway version of fear - fear of no...

Rambus Inc.'s microprocessors have achieved worldwide popularity. From Japan to the United States, its devices appear in video...

LOS ANGELES - The federal judge presiding over the consent decree between the LAPD and the U.S. Justice Department questioned...

Although it seems that every other day another company shelves its initial public offering, one man is feeling positive about ...

Call it a belated holiday present. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Gitlitz v. Commissioner, 2001 Daily Journal D.A.R. 259...

The Court of Appeal in Kawasaki struggles to determine which standard for review to use. ...

The personal computer has been the growth engine for technology stocks for more than a decade. The earning season now unfoldin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge on Thursday allowed state officials to rope 18 school districts into an ambitious lawsui...

SACRAMENTO - Judge Darrel Lewis recently combined two of his favorite activities - skiing and performing weddings. Lewis offic...

In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, "ending welfare as...

SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar and a group of critics announced an agreement Wednesday to reform how the bar conducts its elect...

LOS ANGELES - The California State Board of Education on Thursday delayed a decision on whether to allow sections of the schoo...

RIVERSIDE - George E. Brown Jr. marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. more than 40 years ago to advocate civil rights. The ...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for John Gregory Thorpe, real estate attorney and founding partner of Los Ange...

LOS ANGELES - A judge may sanction a lawyer for making "reckless" statements if the judge finds that the statements are frivol...

PALM DESERT- Alan Oberstein, a former Riverside County public defender, died Tuesday of a heart attack while vacationing in Ha...

LOS ANGELES - Despite complaints that police officers abused a policy that prohibits them from picking up suspected illegal al...

SANTA ANA - The Orange County district attorney's office has joined with the Los Angeles district attorney's office and the Ca...