No aspect of the arbitration process is more often confused by parties' process choices, and garbled in written agreements to ...

Violent crime rates continue to climb in Los Angeles, with the number of homicides up more than 30 percent in the first half o...

SANTA ANA - A skirmish in the national battle over health care reform played out in Orange County Superior Court last week, as...

Deciding an incorrect legal standard was used, the Riverside Court of Appeal reversed a San Bernardino County Superior Court j...

SAN BERNARDINO - As part of an unusual plea agreement, a builder convicted of defrauding homeowners has been given a year to p...

Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday appointed two former Los Angeles County Bar presidents to the Superior Court bench. Patricia M. Sch...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti said Tuesday he would like to see gang suppression police officers back on t...

VENTURA - Lee Mannheimer has a responsible job, lives in upscale Westlake Village, volunteers as an assistant Cub Scoutmaster ...

SAN JOSE - Representatives of the California Nurses Association say a recent federal court ruling is a major victory for union...

Have you watched the show "Survivor?" For those of you who are still at the office when it airs on Wednesday nights, the progr...

NEW YORK - People in prison who insist they are innocent again and again, year after year, actually may be innocent. That is o...

Recently, in Troxel v. Granville, 2000 Daily Journal D.A.R. 5831 (June 6, 2000), the U.S. Supreme Court made a rare inc...

SANTA ANA - In which venue should the lawsuit be filed? What deadlines should the plaintiff and defendant be aware of, and wha...

Dear Anne: I didn't become a lawyer so I could go out and sell. There is so much emphasis now on bringing in business. I hate ...

Izabelle B. Reyes of Granada Hills, who will attend the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law this fall, is one...

One of Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" routines had him donning a turban and reading minds as "Carmac the Magnificent." A five-...

SACRAMENTO - The state judicial-watchdog commission has said that a judge who harassed female court staff may keep his job. Bu...

The statute of limitations does not begin running in dental malpractice cases until patients believe they've been wronged, not...

NEW YORK - The American Bar Association will have awarded more than 70 prizes and honors by the time its annual meeting is ove...

Associate Dean Frederick G. Slabach will be interim dean of Whittier Law School. He replaces Dean John A. FitzRandolph, who wi...

NEW YORK - The incoming president of the American Bar Association issued what she termed a call to action Monday for lawyers a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Everyone knows the story of attorneys who get rich off class-action settlements at the expense of their client...

Gerald T. McLaughlin, who just stepped down as dean of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles after nearly 10 years, plans to return...

Los Angeles has become a city of wimps. All over town, people and politicians are shaking with fear over next month's Democrat...

The Boy Scouts of America should think twice before celebrating its recent "vindication" before the Supreme Court, where it in...

EMotion Inc., has completed a $34 million round of financing. GE Capital and Chartwell Capital Investors II led the financing....

Qualstar Corp. went public on June 23, in an offering valued at about $35.8 million. Qualstar develops and manufactures automa...

Attorney Dennis DeBroeck, a partner at Palo Alto's Fenwick & West, senses that the initial public offering dry spell is ov...

Ronald Redcay, a founding partner of the Los Angeles office of Washington, D.C.,-based Arnold & Porter, rejoined the firm ...

The federal government, responsible for enforcing our environmental laws, regularly pollutes the environment with impunity. Th...