When Kenneth R. Lamb went to Denmark for a week earlier this month, he packed essential supplies for a successful overseas tr...

Forum: By Doug Bandow As the presidential race moves into high gear, the candidates will be talking about everything from heal...

RIVERSIDE - A retired judge who presided over probate cases in Riverside County used his Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answe...

Pratitioner: Entertainment Law In the music business, the hits keep coming. And recently, so do the lawsuits. But these are no...

SANTA ANA - When Rus, Miliband & Smith and Sheppard, Mullen, Richter & Hampton face off in a recently filed wrongful t...

BOTTOM LINE Outsourcing information technology services means learning to evaluate vendors' qualifications. By Gary S. Wong X...

As though they were film critics, respondents to the Daily Journal's latest "L.A. Confidential" poll issued a resounding "thum...

The attorney who managed San Francisco-based Littler Mendelson for seven years until retiring in June is heading to Washingto...

VENTURA - You might not think that a woman with a net worth of as much as $500,000 would be an indigent defendant. Indeed, aft...

SANTA ANA - A slander lawsuit filed against Dr. Laura Schlessinger by Tom Moore, owner of Costa Mesa-based surf shop Beach Acc...

At some point in the typical environmental tort case, the judge has to decide the difference between sound science and junk sc...

Attorneys are often called upon to act as experts in a variety of litigation matters, in addition to testifying to the standar...

SAN FRANCISCO - Accusing plaintiffs and defense counsel of collusive self-dealing in a proposed $15 million class-action settl...

Litigation never provides a happy Hollywood ending for everyone because someone always loses. This time it was Raleigh Film an...

LAGUNA BEACH - An artist with the Festival of the Arts of Laguna Beach filed a lawsuit late Wednesday against the festival's b...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Seven more partners are defecting from Landels Ripley & Diamond this week as the 70-attorney San Francisc...

Donald W. Carlson dreamt of starting his own law firm with a few of his closest friends, of the flexibility and focus he could...

Practitioner: Intellectual Property By Karen Marie Kitterman An attorney receives the jubilant call: Venture capital just came...

Dicta: On 'Judging Amy' By Marilyn Sipes Who should decide whether a child in foster care should take Ritalin - a judge or the...

Forum: By David J. Wilson On April 19, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dickerson v. United States, 99-5525, whi...

Expert consultants are critical to the plaintiff's success in elder-abuse lawsuits. Plaintiffs' lawyers working on such cases ...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday appointed Merced court commissioner Betty L. Dawson to the Merced County Superior Cou...

Dicta: On 'Law & Order' By Stephen A. Mansfield At a time when conservatives are re-examining the propriety of the death ...

The Los Angeles chapter of the ACLU filed a federal class-action Thursday against the city of Montebello, asking that the city...

SANTA ANA - A 14-year-old Huntington Beach youth accused of stealing an album of Pokemon trading cards from another youngster ...

Donald W. Carlson and Joyce C. Wang did not start from square one when they agreed to defend the Insurance Company of North Am...

Dicta: On 'Family Law' By Erin O'Bryan What's a lawyer to do when the cops plant drugs on your client in Rampart-esque style i...

Pratitioner: Intellectual Property By Robert Barnes In the four months since its enactment, the Anticybersquatting Consumer Pr...

SACRAMENTO - The state Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the death sentence for convicted murderer Terry Douglas Bemore, sett...

Forum: By Mike Farrell The politically popular pietism currently in vogue raises a few more questions than it conveniently ans...