FULLERTON - At the end of the day, Orange County Superior Court Judge Tam Nomoto Schumann leaves the rituals of contemporary A...

SUPERMARKET JOBS - The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to prevent merging supermarket chains from firing employees fo...

LOS ANGELES - Brooks Allen went back to school last year. The American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney has the unusual jo...

SAN RAFAEL - It's the Wednesday morning sentencing calendar in the courtroom of Marin County Superior Court Judge Kelly V. Si...

OFFICE CENTURY CITY - Stonefield Josephson leased 25,000 square feet of space on the fourth floor at 2049 Century Park East To...

Letter to the Editor - Regarding the story "Internal Split Develops Over Direction Taken by ACLU Executive Director" (Dec. 9 D...

Focus Column - By Robert C. Barnes - A standard real estate due diligence tool, the Phase I environmental site assessment, is ...

LOS ANGELES - Paramount Pictures sealed a deal over the weekend to buy DreamWorks SKG for $1.6 billion, thwarting rival NBC-U...

OROVILLE - Butte County Superior Court Judge Stephen E. Benson has the lanky frame of a basketball player, the rsum of a histo...

LOS ANGELES - John K. Spillane, a veteran prosecutor who has held several top positions in the Los Angeles County district att...

LOS ANGELES - Public Defender Maria E. Stratton has for a dozen years been a quiet but ubiquitous presence in the Los Angeles ...

LOS ANGELES - Business trips usually are reserved for networking with potential clients. But for 27 members of the Beverly Hil...

LOS ANGELES - Electronic Arts Will Pay $680 Million for Jamdat Electronic Arts Inc. , the world's biggest video game publisher...

WOODLAND HILLS - The Bascom Group LLC, in a joint venture with Rockwood Capital, purchased the 477-unit Renaissance Apartment ...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the much anticipated case of Schaffer v. Weast, 126 S...

Focus Column - By Kimberly Colwell - Every day lawsuits are won and lost based on the quality of the evidence presented at tri...

LOS ANGELES - Does picking up a cell phone that its owner, with whom you had been engaged in a brawl, dropped unknowingly cons...

SAN DIEGO - A lawyer who was the first in the state to prosecute a business for selling chemicals to meth-amphetamine makers w...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Arthur H. Coleman Medical Center is making room for Nadine Burke, a Stanford- and Harvard-educated pediatr...

SACRAMENTO - Frank "Fred" Aguiar, who co-wrote California's "three-strikes" law, was named as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's new...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Morgan, Lewis & Bockius partner Joan Haratani takes over today as president of the Bar Association of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sex with a minor is not a crime of violence and should not be the basis of the deportation of a Peruvian immi...

LOS ANGELES - Fantasies certainly are popular in Hollywood these days. From "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy to "The Chronicles...

SACRAMENTO - Funding for California's statewide drug-court program is about to run dry unless the state passes legislation to ...

RESIGNATION Smith, Janice E. , Las Vegas, Nev. SUSPENSIONS Harrington, Mylik R. , Los Angeles Manning, Michael E. , Covina Mer...

LOS ANGELES - Twice a week, lawyers from Public Counsel and Mental Health Advocacy Services Inc. make the 60-mile round trip f...

HOSPITALITY LOS ANGELES - Prudential Mortgage Capital Co. provided a $49.75-million loan to the Los Angeles Airport Hilton, a...

Focus Column - By Rod M. Fliegel - On Friday, Dec. 2, Christmas may have come early for some California employers with the iss...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - "Holidays were always a hard time for us," recalls a young woman who spent her adoles...

SAN DIEGO - Prominent trial attorney Steven M. Strauss has joined Cooley Godward as a litigation partner in the firm's San Di...