SACRAMENTO - California's trial and appeal courts may have to go without new judges until 2001. One reason, said informed sou...

With the Los Angeles district attorney's salary lagging behind more than 40 percent of the county's other department heads, a...

Senate Confirms Bar's Judy Johnson SACRAMENTO - On a 36-0 vote Thursday, the state Senate confirmed Judy Johnson to a second ...

^^Environmental Law^^ Coerced Participation Appellate Court to Decide Legality of Duplicate Cleanup Order The 3rd Circuit dec...

Bases Loaded Ninth Circuit Opens Federal Facility Remediation to Greater Scrutiny By Brian S. Haughton Like most professional...

^^The Rodent^^ Lawyers Make Their Beds and Then Lie in Them Practicing law often presents situations in which telling the tru...

^^Gender and Justice^^ By M.C. Sungaila "Oh, beha-a-ave," cooed Austin Powers on the big screen this summer. Unfortunately, t...

^^Marketing Mailbag^^ Contact Negotiations To construct a network from the ground up, start with the people you know By Anne ...

Student Indicted On LSD Charges A 21-year-old University of Southern California drama major was indicted Thursday on charges ...

A judge has ruled that defense attorneys in a million-dollar auto insurance fraud ring case are entitled to review dozens of ...

Marlene Gail Stein, a probate referee for the Superior Court of California for 24 years, died Monday of cancer. She was 63. S...

Leaders of the Los Angeles County Bar Association decided Wednesday evening they need more than an hour or two to come up wit...

A state appeal panel has ruled that a city may refuse to publicly disclose the names, addresses and phone numbers of people w...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Osborn, the lawyer who wrote the novel on which "The Paper Chase" film and television series were based,...

Memorial services will be conducted Saturday for Walter G. Danielson, a retired probate attorney and consul general emeritus ...

A Cuban immigrant who developed a multimillion-dollar Hispanic cheese manufacturing company in the United States has been awa...

Services will be conducted today for Phyllis Kelly Fairbanks, one of the first 25 women to graduate from the UCLA School of L...

SAN FRANCISCO - Extending the life of sexual harassment claims, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that alleged incident...

Culver to Begin Weapons Checks Weapons screening equipment and staff will begin working Monday at the Culver Municipal Court,...

^^Employment Law^^ Costly Cups Supreme Court Defines 'Managing Agent' Under 'White' and 'Ginda,' the court will look to see w...

Remuneration and Respite New Laws Restore Daily Overtime and Allow Family-Care Sick Leave By Richard M. Albert, Michael A. Gr...

^^ Court Jesters ^^ Today is the first in an occasional series of interesting or humorous court opinions. In Fisher v. Lowe, ...

City Will Study Personalizing Guns Reacting to recent shootings across the country, including the rampage at the North Valley...

Gun Show Delays Suit Against L.A. A spokesman for the nation's largest gun show said Wednesday the organization has delayed f...

By Tom Teepen As much justice as was possible in the circumstances has been done in the awkward case of Samuel Sheinbein, the...

^^Recruiting Roundtable^^ Interview Intervention When trying to land that dream job, don't forget the basics By Anna Marie Ar...

SACRAMENTO - Workers' compensation attorneys and labor unions are making a final push in the waning days of the legislative s...

Putting a new twist on a novel anti-insurance fraud statute, 20th Century Insurance Co. has sued a contractor for allegedly s...

SAN DIEGO - Hugh P. Chindlund, a veteran trial attorney, has died following a three-month battle with colon cancer. He was 52...

A veteran of several high-profile death penalty cases, including the Unabomber's, has been asked to join the defense team for...