By Mary Micheletti If any Los Angeles law office has a "Midwestern feel," it's Arter & Hadden, partner Robert L. Dickson ...

By Tom Orewyler As the state's high-tech hotbeds - most notably Silicon Valley - prosper, real estate prices have gone throug...

BERKELEY - Thirty years after sparking a notorious march to take over a vacant field in Berkeley known as People's Park, atto...

Sullivan & Cromwell DEAL HELPS PHARMACIA & UPJOHN FIGHT CANCER Bridgewater, N.J.-based pharmaceutical company Pharmac...

Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Ronald R. Schoenberg quietly retired earlier this month, in a manner that reflected the way...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Senior Deputy District Attorney Christopher Evans said Friday that he plans to leave the DA's offic...

SAN DIEGO - Mara Plascencia, her mouth slowly opening and closing, scanned the faces of the six women and six men, but they f...

The recent discovery of knives among the possessions of visitors to the downtown County Courthouse has led to a new security ...

WASHINGTON - Section 6254(f) of the California Public Records Act, which forbids release of the addresses of arrestees and cr...

In reaction to a recent Daily Journal article detailing the deaths of 12 Los Angeles County children during a period of six w...

About five years ago W. Bruce Wold, a partner at Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold in San Francisco, gave up his hourly billi...

SANTA ANA - In the wake of Thursday's state Supreme Court ruling barring the release of grand jury transcripts concerning Ora...

An insurance-defense attorney in the Bay Area received a response to one of his bills recently. Cut this, cut that, it said. ...

A Los Angeles businessman has filed a professional negligence complaint against his former attorneys, claiming he has suffere...

^^The Rodent^^ The Firm's Road-Trip Team Is a Many-Headed Beast Some sports teams, especially at the college level, have two ...

Tippler Transit New Amendments to the Driving-Under-the-Influence Laws By Mark S. Rafferty This year, amendments to the drivi...

Search Light The Supreme Court Has Clarified a Number of Fourth Amendment Issues Perhaps most astounding of all was the fact ...

By Thomas F. Coleman Four bills moving through the Legislature would grant benefits to unmarried couples, whether heterosexua...

By Stephen C. Tedesco On June 22, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two opinions that clarified the Americans With Disabilities A...

^^TALES AND TRIALS^^ By Joel ben Izzy I am always surprised when I work with trial lawyers who have never studied the great f...

A lawyer and a law firm employee who claim they wrongly were stopped and searched in a gang-infested area because they are wh...

Prominent Los Angeles neutral Diane Wayne is leaving Century City-based ADR Services Inc. to join JAMS/Endispute and buy into...

An AIDS patient who accused opposing counsel in a wrongful termination case of illegal conduct has settled his lawsuit agains...

SAN DIEGO - Mayor Susan Golding was found factually innocent Thursday of charges of misconduct in office brought against her ...

A 6-year-old child whose older brother died while in foster care is suing Los Angeles County and various other parties for in...

Ballots go in the mail today for California lawyers to elect new representatives to the State Bar Board of Governors . And th...

The North Hollywood man charged in the first case of its kind with using the Internet to stalk and repeatedly solicit the rap...

SAN FRANCISCO - Strong-armed by Washington into a merger few wanted, three of the largest Bay Area legal aid programs this we...

SAN FRANCISCO - Reaffirming the general secrecy of grand jury proceedings, the California Supreme Court held Thursday that the...

At least a dozen children in Los Angeles County have died under tragic circumstances in a little more than a month - since ea...