Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti and challenger Steve Cooley squared off in their first debate Friday, with ...

A federal jury has awarded Allstate Insurance Company $3 million, finding that an independent insurance adjuster and two cons...

Some might consider Darryl Snider, litigation partner with Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in Los Angeles, a tad overeduca...

Controversy sharpened Friday over the issue of accountability for the Los Angeles Unified School District's troubled Belmont s...

Los Angeles-based Gibson Dunn & Crutcher will close its San Diego office, displacing 13 litigation attorneys - three part...

SAN FRANCISCO - The battle by hundreds of dog walkers to reopen popular bluff trails at Fort Funston closed by the U.S. Park ...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside criminal defense lawyers have banded together to boycott the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Vilia G. ...

SAN DIEGO - After a two-year legal struggle that extended throughout the state, Rite Aid Corp. and prosecutors representing 1...

^^At Issue^^ By Anne La Jeunesse Verdicts & Settlements Staff Writer Valentine's Day was sweet indeed for attorneys Lauren...

Some intellectual property attorneys say they've been misperceived, as though they are "not real lawyers" - that they just get...

^^Environmental Law^^ The Boeing case offers some guidance regarding causation and allocation under CERCLA. Page 7 Happy Meal ...

^^Law & Order^^ By Stephen A. Mansfield Two fast punches to the head and a 57-year-old woman is dead. Her head hits the fl...

As the complexity of proof has grown, so has the cost of litigating matters through trial. ...

By Vernon Jarrett Just as racial profiling by this nation's law-enforcement officers is finally being exposed, evidence of rac...

"There is only one way to deal with a bully, and that's to stand up to him," attorney Pierce O'Donnell told The Eye on Wednesd...

FORUM California's surplus of federal welfare money offers a great opportunity to create local incentive programs that strike ...

Case Name Osterholt v. United States , 978528 CAS (July 9, 1999) Keith A. Nelson, Personal Injury Litigation, Vandenberg, Newe...

DICTA Whether interviewing a prospective partner or a secretary, determine whether the person matches your firm's culture. Pag...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Sacramento lawyer who won $7.3 million in a slip-and-fall case this week said he bucked the trend of smal...

Evil Additive State Board Releases Draft MTBE Guidelines By Catherine W. Johnson Last month, the California State Water Resour...

The one-time head of California's Civil Rights Enforcement office, Marian Johnston, was recommended Tuesday by Democratic Sen...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association will urge the California Supreme Court to review an appellate decision that some fear t...

In their second recent visit to the San Fernando Valley, members of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners again were ...

TOM KURTZ/For the Daily Journal Veteran San Diego civil litigator Ronald L. Styn and his family, from left, son John, wife Su...

PAMPA, Texas - Down in the Texas panhandle town of Pampa, authorities are poised to try local resident Dewayne Gordon Hickman...

R. Dan Murphy, head of the Los Angeles district attorney's Rampart prosecution team, clearly is uncomfortable talking about h...

SAN FRANCISCO - A peculiar Nevada State Bar rule weakened Tuesday, when a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a...

SAN DIEGO - After what prosecutors describe as years of terrorizing the neighborhood, a Latino gang has been forbidden in a p...

By Stephen R. Barnett If ever a couple of legal crackpots - disgruntled litigants - were tilting at windmills only they could ...

9th Circuit upholds award in case of successful female manager who suffered retaliation after lodging a sex-discrimination com...