Opening statements are scheduled today in the trial of a civil lawsuit stemming from charges that Los Angeles police violated ...

Three more Los Angeles firms - O'Melveny & Myers, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedge...

SAN DIEGO - Peter J. Longanbach, the San Diego deputy district attorney who heads DA Paul Pfingst's economic fraud division, i...

It was a tense crowd, brimming with frustration and some hostility. U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas had been at his job about...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant boon for employees of subcontractors in the rail and airline industries, a federal appeals co...

WASHINGTON - New session of Congress, same old story. A routine discussion of budget items in a House Judiciary Committee meet...

Prosecutor John F. Lynch, who in 1996 came close to defeating incumbent Gil Garcetti for Los Angeles County district attorney,...

By William Raspberry I suppose getting engrossed in a subplot is easier when the main storyline has become fairly obvious. May...

Program Aims to Combat Stalking Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti and the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults A...

A domestic violence temporary restraining order keeping Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alban I. Niles and his former long-t...

The letters page of the Daily Journal has recently been alive with the debate over same-sex marriage. This certainly reflects ...

Michael Farrell Named Top Judge Superior Court Judge Michael Farrell will be named Judge of the Year Thursday night by the San...

SAN FRANCISCO - Few issues have emerged in the race between the Oakland City Attorney Jayne W. Williams and her challenger, Ci...

With the advent of two recently signed laws, firms should consider carefully the possible downsides of using temporary employe...

DALLAS - The man likely to be president of the American Bar Association in 2001-02 intends to focus his term in part on making...

SANTA ANA - Two uncles of convicted cop killer John George Brown testified Monday that the defendant, soon to be sentenced for...

I am an unabashed fan of pleading motions - the demurrer or its cousin, the motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Proc...

A $40 million settlement proposal to resolve two lawsuits alleging that the city of Los Angeles is violating a federal overti...

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno's decision on whether to seek the death penalty against Buford Furrow is expected to be made...

Ever since Big Brother lost his day job behind the Iron Curtain, he's been looking for a full-time capitalist gig. Lately, som...

Former Pelican Bay prison guard David G. Lewis was convicted Monday of criminal violations of federal civil rights law in the ...

SACRAMENTO - As voters mull a plan to expand bad-faith insurance lawsuits, the debate over the proposal's arbitration provisi...

Noosh Inc. filed for an initial public offering of stock, to be worth a total of $58 million. Palo Alto-based Noosh supplies p...

iAsiaWorks has acquired Cupertino-based Web Professionals for an undisclosed combination of stock and cash. iAsiaWorks, with h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Louisiana-Pacific Corp. has agreed to pay $700,000, including fines and physical improvements at an aging part...

Fountain Valley Wins Mock Trial COSTA MESA - Fountain Valley High School was honored Wednesday for taking first place in the m...

Advertising-injury coverage may handle damages from trademark infringement. ...

NEWS Weston Benshoof lands real-estate attorney Pamela Privett as a new partner to build the firm's transactional practice. Th...

Public Interest Law Abuse Aid New Laws Protect Domestic Violence Survivors Section 3044 creates a rebuttable presumption that ...

DALLAS - Expanding his initiative to improve the diversity of the legal profession, the president of the American Bar Associa...