Joseph D. McNamara, an associate at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, will talk about "Gangsta Cops and the Drug Wars"...

Handspring Inc. went public in late June in a stock offering valued at about $200 million. The founders of the Mountain View-b...

Lawyer Sandra Polin will host a summer party at her Pacific Palisades home July 18 for members of the Santa Monica Bar Associa...

Mattson Technology has agreed to acquire STEAG Electronic Systems' Semiconductor Division and CFM Technologies. The value of t...

After years of overtures from firms throughout the country, prominent Century City entertainment and high-tech boutique Blanc ...

Santa Clara's Webango Inc., which helps companies use the Internet to manage their relationships with various service supplier...

A man fired from his job as a warehouse supervisor for the city of Burbank has filed suit against the city, challenging the co...

NEW YORK - State and local grassroots organizations increasingly are setting their sights on the sharply escalating costs of j...

The state appellate court has refused to block the demotion of two senior Los Angeles police officers who complained their rea...

A federal indictment against a Los Angeles attorney and two doctors on bankruptcy fraud has been expanded to include three add...

NEW YORK - Minorities are significantly underrepresented in the legal profession compared even to other professions, the presi...

SAN FRANCISCO - During the past eight years, dozens of sometimes acrimonious lawsuits resulted in more than $1 million paid to...

Once again casting doubts on the credibility of Rampart scandal whistle-blower Rafael Perez, two police officers were acquitte...

Deputy Attorney General Nho Trong Nguyen was appointed Orange County Superior Court's first Vietnamese American judge. ...

NEW YORK - The American Bar Association Board of Governors voted strongly Friday to oppose letting lawyers form partnerships o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A university professor who champions anti-smoking campaigns is free to use public funds for his lobbying activ...

DENVER - Most television legal analysts don't say much that's worth listening to. That may not come as a surprise to many lawy...

Leaving the lives of 130 dogs in doubt, a state appellate court has given the green light to the city of Burbank to shut down ...

SAN DIEGO - Each request, painstakingly printed in pencil, represents someone's last hope to prove to the world that the jury ...

The state Department of Social Services is seeking to revoke permanently the foster care license of a Santa Barbara-area foste...

Protests continued to escalate Friday over the protesters expected at the Democratic National Convention, as the Los Angeles C...

Facing the grim reality that California's Medi-Cal system is broken, Governor Gray Davis focused on a quick fix - a massive cr...

Until 1999, there were very few appellate decisions involving civil claims for elder abuse under Welfare and Institutions Code...

Q. Which cases should never, ever be mediated? A. Conventional wisdom dictates that, where new law needs to be made, mediation...

Some litigators rarely try cases, while others can honestly be called trial lawyers. Gary M. Paul is unquestionably the latter...

Some L.A. lawyers really know which buttons to push when filing a lawsuit. Think of the paper that lawyer Pierce O'Donnell thr...

Late this summer, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs will send out approximately 60,000 Equal Opportunity surv...

John J. Machado argued away sub rosa videotape of his client artificially inseminating a cow using his injured shoulder. ...

There are many reasons that explain Vicente Fox's decisive victory in elections in Mexico. His charismatic candidacy, his obst...

The booming economy may offer abundant opportunities for employees, but the transient nature of today's work force has produce...