FORUM The Internal Revenue Code already provides a child-care tax credit to enable parents to work. I propose that Congress e...

San Francisco transactional lawyers who want to use their skills to help underrepresented groups can hook up with the Bay Are...

HOUSE CALL There is an upswing in corporate counsel giving back to their communities by performing pro bono work. By Elizabet...

SAN FRANCISCO - After 22 years, Long & Levit rainmaker Don Carlson will be leaving the firm along with five other partner...

Rodney King's one-time lead civil rights attorney, Milton C. Grimes of Santa Ana, prevailed Thursday in a bench trial of a br...

Fallout continued to flow from the widespread allegations of corruption at the Department of Children and Family Services wit...

A San Fernando judge on Friday made the rare determination that a woman, acquitted two months ago of the murder of her husban...

THE ADVISER Daily overtime is back for many California workers, but what about the flexibility in creative scheduling? By Wil...

Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfonso Bazan, who had a reputation for presiding over challenging cases with meticu...

ADR Profile Full Speed Ahead This energetic San Francisco mediator attempts to motor around resolution roadblocks before medi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A rare San Francisco three-strikes prosecution has been derailed by a judge's decision rejecting two prior co...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge who seized two courtroom sketches from an artist who was working for a Palo Alto newspa...

Taking on a controversial and highly political issue, Los Angeles County Bar Association trustees have decided to oppose the ...

The sponsor of the nation's largest gun show, which sued the county of Los Angeles for enacting an ordinance banning the sale...

A tentative $2.2 million settlement has been agreed to by workers for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in the groundbreaking case...

A judge has dismissed a defamation suit against Troop, Steuber, Pasich, Reddick & Tobey, which a former legal secretary h...

It looks likely that the saga of two employees who won $89.5 million in a discrimination and retaliation suit against Hughes A...

John P. Meck, an environmental law attorney and retired senior counsel for ARCO Products Company, has died. He was 55. Meck di...

R. Dan Murphy, the head of the Los Angeles County district attorney's Pasadena office, has been selected to head DA Gil Garcet...

ROBERT LEVINS/Daily Journal Retired Associate Court of Appeal Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine, left, meets with outgoing Oran...

Santa Monica-based Haight, Brown & Bonesteel has elected seven attorneys to the partnership, the largest crop of new partn...

Retired appellate court Justice Jack E. Goertzen has returned to the court system, but this time he is a defendant in a lawsui...

SAN FRANCISCO - Scores of hydroelectric projects in California may become subject to heightened environmental scrutiny as the ...

SAN DIEGO - Saying that revelations continue about misconduct by two district attorney's employees during trials connected wit...

Pepperdine University professor and administrator Andrew K. Benton will become the seventh president of the university. Benton...

ORANGE - Attorneys for the high school students whom the Orange Unified School District has denied an on-campus club about sex...

FORUM The passing of Rose Elizabeth Bird leaves a very large hole in the conscience of California, not to mention in the heart...

FORUM Jail is not the appropriate setting for homeless, mentally ill citizens apprehended for minor charges. Page 6. By Diana ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge Wednesday threw out a lawsuit filed by Dr. Laura Schlessinger against the ow...

WASHINGTON - The federal government "is not trying to bankrupt any companies" by intervening in city and county litigation aga...