Some say Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eudon Ferrell is inflexible and a rubber stamp for the prosecution. But the Inglewoo...

SAN JOSE - Search for "Check N' Go" on Google and what do you get? A screen showing eight companies that specialize in making ...

Focus Column - The wave of corporate scandals following in the wake of Sept. 11 have led plaintiffs' counsel to target alterna...

SANTA ANA - The judge who spearheaded Orange County's domestic-violence court has been chastised once again for how she handle...

LOS ANGELES - Most court auctions take place inside a courtroom. ...

Letter to the Editor - I have been hearing increasingly frequent criticisms of The Daily Journal as being a lapdog of the libe...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the city's largest residential landlords was accused of vast and various illegal tactics to oust longti...

Forum Column - The navigation of employee bonus waters is difficult. Often, employers announce a program but do not want or in...

LOS ANGELES - Caseloads are down for applicant attorneys' across the state by almost a third because of 2004 reforms that over...

A Long Beach attorney will be referred to the California State Bar after filing a juvenile court appeal that justices said was...

The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether plaintiffs who bring private attorney general acti...

A Los Angeles state appellate court threw out a robbery conviction and life sentence Wednesday because a deputy district attor...

WASHINGTON - Environmental activists recently voiced alarm that if Congress splits the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals into two cour...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trampoline, yo-yo, zipper and escalator are just a few of the onetime trademarks that fill the graveyard of pr...

LOS ANGELES - Attempting to stanch criticism over internal spending, Legal Service Corp., the federal entity that funds nonpro...

The couple at the center of a politically charged battle over the legitimacy of the Iraq war has enlisted a top California pla...

Letter to the Editor - I refer to Victoria Fine's article reviewing med-arb, "Hybrid 'Med-Arb' Receives Mixed Reviews," (Los A...

SAN FRANCISCO - A 2-year-old landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting hearsay in criminal prosecutions has cast a local hig...

Ruling in favor of a widow who had been denied benefits from her husband's life insurance plan, a federal appeals court Tuesda...

LOS ANGELES - Hewlett-Packard's announcement late last month that it would acquire Mercury Interactive Corp., an enterprise so...

A November ballot initiative that would raise tobacco taxes to fund hospital emergency services and other health programs cont...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Riverside County judge has struck out with a judicial watchdog agency for waiting to take a verdict in a dou...

Kent B. Goss and Valerie M. Goo, Los Angeles-based partners at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, have departed the firm to join...

Four Morgan, Lewis & Bockius summer associates returned to law school last week not just having gained legal experience bu...

Forum Column - For the first time in perhaps more than a decade, Institutional Shareholder Services, the most prominent adviso...

Focus Column - 'Please, sir, I want some more." For his modest request in seeking another bowl of gruel, the protagonist in Ch...

Los Angeles officials hope a federal judge flushes a voter-approved Kern County measure that the city says discriminates again...

SANTA ANA - Taking a recent Supreme Court precedent into new territory, a federal judge has sharply limited the evidence prose...

A former "shock jock" at a college radio station can sue the school and its general counsel for defamation after he drew fire ...

RIVERSIDE - Commissioner Charles J. Koosed doesn't like to rush young offenders through his juvenile delinquency calendar for ...