As if the issue of unification of Los Angeles' trial courts had not turned contentious enough, members of the state Republican...

Riverside DA Reorganizes Staff Two trial lawyers in the Riverside District Attorney's office have been promoted to supervisin...

Judge Is Asked to Suspend Ruling The county of Los Angeles filed a motion Monday with U.S. District Judge Richard A. Paez ask...

Dealmaker Leaves Sheppard Mullin Corporate and securities dealmaker Larry Braun is leaving Los Angeles-based Sheppard, Mullin...

Crumbling Wall? High Court Set to Address Aid to Parochial Schools Underlying the voucher debate and the entire issue of gove...

Speaking Terms You can't spin your story if you skip the interview By Michael S. Sitrick You're in the middle of complicated ...

Finding the Way Out of the Health Insurance Maze By Kim Quackenbush Like other big corporations in the late 1980s, many law f...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and his brother, San Francisco Federal District Court Judge Charles...

SEATTLE - Across the country, legal pundits are already writing the obituary for the practice of environmental law. Superfund...

The question of whether Howard Miller legally can serve as chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District...

Prompted by the alleged mistreatment of custodial workers who cleaned the courthouse in Long Beach, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsk...

^^U.S. SUPREME COURT HIGHLIGHTS^^ Among actions announced Monday by the justices were: OPINION SEARCH AND SEIZURE: In a unani...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether federal law pre-empts suits by accident victims against rail...

One of two prosecutors assigned to the attempted police car bombing case of former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier ...

A federal judge in Sacramento has agreed to put on hold an 11-year court fight over the future of the San Joaquin River, clea...

By Michael D. Harris Daily Journal Staff Wrier A judge Monday refused to grant a new murder trial to a reputed gang member wh...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis shocked privacy advocates last week with his veto of a bill that would require bosses to tell wo...

DENVER - Not satisfied with a congressional report that last year recommended against splitting the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...

Watkins' Case Transferred to O.C. SAN BERNARDINO - The criminal case against lawyers James Brian Watkins and his father, John...

Net Knowledge New Technology Leads to Novel Ways of Practicing Law By Ian C. Ballon Practicing Internet and e-commerce law req...

Frequent Flyer By Tamara Scott Once a week, San Francisco lawyer Charles "Chuck" Birenbaum spends one night and two days in L...

Santa Monica Bar To Install Officers Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Victor E. Chavez will serve as keynote speake...

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Samuel Goldwyn Cochran Cherry FORMER O.J. LAWYER MERGES WITH NEW YOR...

Zipping Lips Technology and a fluid job market have increased the chances for rogue employees and contractors to leak confide...

Bear Essentials A tussle over Winnie-the-Pooh could become a big public access battle now that Walt Disney Co. is accused of ...

Beverly Hills Bar Installs Officers Nicholas R. Allis has been installed as president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. O...

By Gerald F. Uelmen Justice Stanley Mosk, who is about to break the record for longevity of service on the California Supreme...

By Jeffrey Anderson In June, Michael Small received a strange letter. The author, writing on behalf of an "anonymous friend,"...

Tech Emergency! An international coalition of law firms battles the Internet Age's borderless vexations. By Leslie A. Gordon ...

^^Land Use Law^^ Uncharted Territory Takings Cases Don't Always Have to Be Tried Before a Jury The court found that where, as...