The one-time head of California's Civil Rights Enforcement office, Marian Johnston, was recommended Tuesday by Democratic Sen...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association will urge the California Supreme Court to review an appellate decision that some fear t...

In their second recent visit to the San Fernando Valley, members of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners again were ...

TOM KURTZ/For the Daily Journal Veteran San Diego civil litigator Ronald L. Styn and his family, from left, son John, wife Su...

PAMPA, Texas - Down in the Texas panhandle town of Pampa, authorities are poised to try local resident Dewayne Gordon Hickman...

R. Dan Murphy, head of the Los Angeles district attorney's Rampart prosecution team, clearly is uncomfortable talking about h...

SAN FRANCISCO - A peculiar Nevada State Bar rule weakened Tuesday, when a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a...

SAN DIEGO - After what prosecutors describe as years of terrorizing the neighborhood, a Latino gang has been forbidden in a p...

By Stephen R. Barnett If ever a couple of legal crackpots - disgruntled litigants - were tilting at windmills only they could ...

9th Circuit upholds award in case of successful female manager who suffered retaliation after lodging a sex-discrimination com...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four ex-General Dynamics managers, allegedly threatened with firing if they claimed a share of an overtime-pa...

Score one for the little people. A giant railroad company got a homeowners' $1 million noise-nuisance lawsuit dismissed by a ...

SAN DIEGO - Anyone planning to send the kids to college on the proceeds from selling a treasured "vintage cut" - an autograph...

By Barry E. Shanley The pack of wolves has stopped coming at us from our TV screens. Once again, the side with the most money ...

Alternative-workweek arrangements can include 12-hour days if overtime is paid after 10 hours. Page 7 Wrinkle in Time Interim ...

DICTA Many successful firms use a system of low partner draws coupled with monthly or quarterly profit distributions. ...

DICTA The best way to avoid employee misconduct is to maintain control and stay involved in all aspects of your practice. Page...

In what will bring to 60 the number of cases that will have been thrown out of court due to the Rampart police corruption scan...

A San Diego judge was publicly admonished Wednesday by the state Commission on Judicial Performance for making a series of int...

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday transferred the appeal of a $101 million jury verdict from the San Diego appellate court...

Physical therapist Marjorie Pang took time off from her job in Los Angeles in 1996 to help her elderly mother move from her Ne...

Northern California newspaper editor and publisher Tim Crews probably ought to spend more time in jail. Last Friday's issue o...

DENVER - Failing to persuade Congress to restrict gun show sales nationwide, President Clinton brought his message to Colorad...

UCLA School of Law Alumni Association President George Schiavelli, center, was joined by U.S. District Judge Gary Taylor and a...

A letter to the editor (April 4) from L.A. Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks complains that I was "quick to label the f...

Gov. Gray Davis has decreed that prisoners sentenced to indeterminate sentences (so-called "lifers") will not be granted parol...

SAN FRANCISCO - Planning a mass arrest or some act of civil disobedience? As with any activity with legal ramifications, movi...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A young San Francisco lawyer copied confidential documents from clients in a bid to extort a lucrative retir...

By Thomas Elias Ignoring the concept of the income tax, as the deadline for filing state and federal returns looms very close,...

FORUM The Supreme Court in Southworth provides a blueprint for causing the entire student-activity-fee system to implode. ...