SANTA ANA - An 86-year-old resident at the John Douglas French Center for Alzheimer's Disease in Los Alamitos sued the facilit...

THE CLOSER One lawyer tells his story of his search for the holy grail of true happiness in a new teaching job in Hawaii and ...

^^Bottom Line^^ Fee Fairness The 'PLCM' case may generate more employment opportunities for in-house counsel - but also may r...

THE ADVISER Budget constraints are causing legal departments to re-examine how they contract for outside legal services. As a...

In the wake of mass departures and failed merger talks, San Francisco's Landels Ripley & Diamond filed for Chapter 11 ban...

SANTA ANA - Devallis Rutledge, former chief assistant district attorney of Orange County, has filed a claim against the county...

FORUM Gov. Davis is hoping the rest of the California Legislature will adopt SB66 so he can sign a bill that he claims address...

--Spin Report-- By John M. Curtis. Pulling the rug out from underneath Clinton's Patients' Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court r...

Milpitas-based semiconductor company LSI Logic Corp., known for its system-on-a-chip, has acquired San Jose's DataPath System...

BARSTOW - In what may be the first case of its kind in California, prosecutors have filed a murder charge against the caretak...

When Bill Choe went to Seoul, Korea, in 1991 fresh out of Notre Dame Law School to act as a legal consultant to foreigners in...

Services were held recently for Lawrence A. Cohen, a family law attorney. Cohen, 42, died of a heart attack at his Glendale h...

Support for a controversial racial profiling bill before the Assembly Public Safety Committee appears to be evaporating as leg...

Services for Fred Rimerman, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge, will be at 3 p.m. today. Rimerman died Thursday of ca...

Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles M. Hughes has died. Hughes died Tuesday in Indian Wells, where he retired afte...

Gov. Gray Davis on Friday announced the appointment of two prosecutors to the superior court bench, one of whom was elected e...

Veteran real estate attorney Benzion J. Westreich has joined the Los Angeles office of Chicago-based Katten Muchin & Zavi...

A San Diego mother whose 8-year-old son was taken away from her in 1998 because she was imprisoned has no right to appeal tha...

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday rejected $10.35 million in settlement demands brought by seven people who have filed ci...

Founded for fund raising, departments in educational and charitable institutions now guide potential contributors and their co...

SAN JOSE -- A Santa Clara County judge has dismissed criminal charges against a San Jose attorney who had been swept up in a ...

THE ADVISER Achieving the due-diligence objective - gathering and disclosing all germane information so both parties understa...

The Public Eye: By Ross Johnson The next time you channel zap between local news shows in your thirsty quest for live, breakin...

Practitioner: Intellectual Property Law By Mitchell Zimmerman The Internet has given rise to myriad novel copyright issues, to...

SANTA ANA - His birthday is today, but Charles Jaramillo already received the best gift he could ask for. On June 5, a state a...

SAN DIEGO - Win some, lose some. That's the situation in which the city of San Diego finds itself. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental regulators Thursday praised a federal appellate court decision that may boost significantly the ...

^^AT ISSUE^^ By Leonard Novarro Road design - or lack of it - played a key role in three accident cases that cost the state of...

^^LITIGATOR PROFILE^^ By Leonard Novarro As William Streitfeld was building his personal injury claim on behalf of Kelly Reed,...

Practitioner: Intellectual Property Law By Vernon M. Winters To be named as a defendant in a high-stakes patent-infringement s...