RANCHO CUCAMONGA - The Church of God Restoration in Upland holds some decidedly unpopular and, some say, misunderstood, tenets...

Focus Column - By James M. Harris and Melissa Grant - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals takes, on average, 18 months from ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge has ordered that material discovered in any one Rampart case should be available to p...

Dicta Colum - By David H. Brickner - A few suggestions on preparation of your client for cross-examination at trial. Though i...

Dicta Column - A collection of quotes from recent pages of the Los Angeles Daily Journal.

Column by Garry Abrams - The Société des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers á Monaco, or the Monaco Sea Bath Society an...

RIVERSIDE - A federal jury has deadlocked on whether two former Rocketdyne scientists illegally disposed of hazardous waste th...

LOS ANGELES - The city attorney's office is sending 18 lawyers into neighborhoods across the city in an effort to solve nuisan...

LOS ANGELES - Carl A. Lindstrom, a sole practitioner and arbitrator from San Jose, won a special election Wednesday to fill a ...

Forum Column - Opposing Counsel - By Stephen Yagman - At long last, to paraphrase Joseph Welch's jibe at Sen. Joseph McCarthy,...

Focus Column - By Alec H. Boyd - Few decisions are more important to a litigant than the decision to settle. Quite often, the ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Beverly Hills personal injury attorney to eight months in prison an...

LOS ANGELES - Labor and employment boutique Littler Mendelson has appointed Jeremy A. Roth to manage its 18-attorney San Diego...

LOS ANGELES - Following up on his legislative package of last year, Rep. Howard L. Berman on Monday introduced a bill to exten...

LOS ANGELES - On Monday, Workers' Compensation Appeals Board Judge Donald Renetzky would have liked to have wound up his campa...

Forum Column - Opposing Counsel - By Melanie E. Lomax - The City of Los Angeles has benefited over the past 41/2 years from th...

SANTA MARIA - Since announcing he was running for a judgeship two months ago, Santa Maria prosecutor Charles S. Biely had been...

WASHINGTON - Federal judges upset by Congress' failure to give them promised pay raises received some sympathy - but no help -...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's chief medical officer testified Monday that Diane Whipple, who was mauled to death by dogs owned...

SANTA ANA - Services have been held for James G. Alverson Jr., a Santa Ana lawyer for 20 years before turning exclusively to h...

SAN DIEGO - The race for district attorney of San Diego County has been filled with blistering charges of ethical and manageme...

SANTA ANA - Unwilling to evaluate either an incumbent judge facing criminal charges or the 11 people vying for his Orange Coun...

SAN DIEGO - Of the area's four judicial election races, one has emerged as particularly intense - with an incumbent trying to ...

VENTURA - A Santa Barbara judge's ruling that the makeup of Ventura County's 2000-01 grand jury was unconstitutional has derai...

SANTA ANA - Despite pending charges of child molestation and child-pornography possession, Orange County Superior Court Judge ...

WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on Friday asked the General Accounting Office to invest...

LOS ANGELES - Services have been held for Alan Land, a veteran Lockheed Martin attorney who was one of the first "Skunk Works"...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is calling for completion of the scandal-plagued Belmont Learning Center, a $154 ...

LOS ANGELES - For three solid weeks, attorneys held jurors rapt with a tangled tale of convoluted financial transactions, pira...

Focus Column - By James J. Moneer - With 18 newly published decisions and two grants of review by the California Supreme Court...