Sacramento - The state has been unable to convert its booming economic prosperity into home ownership opportunities for worki...

Pleasanton - Voters on opposite sides of San Francisco Bay went in opposite directions regarding growth control in November e...

Two Orange County firms, Birtcher Construction Services of Costa Mesa and Holmes & Narver Inc. architects and engineers o...

Oakland -- The Port of Oakland and Merriwether & Williams Insurance Services launched a Surety Bond Program for local wom...

The above well-known advertising slogan of Hills Bros. Coffee was for a long time much more appropriate than most people real...

SANTA ANA - National pharmaceutical manufacturing firm PharmaPrint Inc. - responsible for developing herbal remedies such as g...

The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners voted narrowly Tuesday to support a proposed ordinance banning the sale of ammun...

Lawyers have moved to recuse a federal judge from considering civil contempt charges against a legal consultant who gave confi...

Edward P. Lazarus, whose insider's account of working at the U.S. Supreme Court caused a ruckus in legal circles last year, is...

SANTA ANA - Orange County prosecutors said Tuesday that they do not intend to file criminal charges against the Center for Cre...

Bringing to 11 the number of people whose tainted convictions have been reversed as a result of the Los Angeles Police Departm...

Cooler Heads Neal Blacker plans to revitalize Dispute Resolutions' reputation for helping calmer heads prevail - despite his ...

Jennifer Byrd Pamela S. Duffy seemed destined for a public policy career. From 1968 to 1970, Duffy took part in several Vietn...

Kit Kaufman's father tried to warn him away from the law. "My father always told me not to be a lawyer," Kaufman says. "But h...

Speech Expansion California courts interpreted the anti-SLAPP law expansively this year, broadening the statute's protection ...

Vinny Vidi Vici Organized crime has gone high-tech, creating new challenges for law enforcement. By Chris Ford Organized crim...

Sheppard Mullin FIRM FINDS GROWTH NOT AT ALL TAXING Corporate attorney David Ulich and intellectual property lawyer Tim Epp h...

Take the Seventh Corporations that request multiple jury trials undermine the judicial system. By Elizabeth J. Cabraser Compl...

Drop in the Bucket Without amendments to the Currency Exchange Act, off-exchange brokers will continue to scam customers with...

Latham & Watkins CHARTERED SEMICONDUCTOR CONDUCTS AN OFFERING Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor has completed an initia...

As the legal guardian of Martin, her 8-year-old nephew, Maria Cano of Montebello said she tried for months to get the Departm...

^^Viewpoint^^ By C. David Serena California courts strongly favor arbitration. Code of Civil Procedure Section 1281.2 require...

Beefing up his gang unit and getting new office furniture are Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn's budget priorities for...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County and two labor unions may be denying county employees' constitutional rights by requiring them to...

SAN DIEGO - Although both the defense and the prosecution in a murder case wanted sealed documents made public, Superior Cour...

Should Winnie the Pooh meet Jeffrey Katzenberg? That was the seemingly goofy legal question raised in Los Angeles Superior Co...

Los Angeles-based Munger, Tolles & Olson has elected seven new California partners, effective Jan. 1 - the firm's largest...

SANTA ANA - In a lawsuit said to be the first of its kind, an Orange County woman is suing Habitat for Humanity, contending t...

The Los Angeles city attorney's office spent nearly $3.8 million on outside counsel last fiscal year - more than other large ...

The landmark bad-faith case brought by the family of Mor Stern over Holocaust-era life insurance policies has settled, attorn...