Daily Journal EXTRA has discovered still more tape recordings of secret interrogations conducted 50 years ago by Sen. Joseph M...

A roast is supposed to make mincemeat out of the person honored. But that's not exactly a tall order when the subject of the g...

Despite emotionally charged testimony about alleged lack of care at a Los Angeles nursing home, a jury found against an 89-yea...

Corinthian Colleges Inc., a Santa Ana-based company that operates a chain of vocational schools, will buy Career Choices Inc. ...

Column - Construction Defects - By Kevin P. Cody - By now, most home builders and contractors are aware that an important new ...

In yet another tech merger announced this month, software company Mercury Interactive Corp. has agreed to buy privately held K...

Call them competitors, trailblazers, maybe even bitches if you're hung up on an image of women that's all sugar and spice. Wh...

Last year's merger with San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen wasn't quite enough for Jay Zimmerman, the aggre...

When the American Jewish Committee held its 24th Annual Learned Hand Award Dinner a month ago, The Scene expected to encounter...

Real estate lawyer Craig Wood recently packed up and made the move to Southern California in order to be closer to his family....

A new state law aimed at combating identity theft may be more of a nuisance than a help to businesses and consumers and end up...

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has hired insurance lawyer James E. Fitzgerald as partner. Fitzgerald, who joined the firm i...

EBay Inc. is boosting its investment in an online auction company serving the Chinese market. San Jose-based eBay has agreed t...

It took half the year, but a technology company finally found its way to an initial public offering in 2003. FormFactor Inc. o...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By David Martinez - Health care providers participating in California's Medi-Cal program routinely h...

Forum Column - By Philip Graves - On June 2, the U.S. Supreme Court issued yet another in a recent string of decisions limitin...

Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - Former Gov. Frank Keating's description of the conduct of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Maho...

Forum Column - By Brian K. Landsberg - At first blush, the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings in the Michigan higher education affir...

SANTA ANA - Consistency counts, especially when you're disqualifying a judge during appeal. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...

SANTA ANA - The devil is usually in the details and, in this case, so was the scam. So ruled Orange County Superior Court Jud...

WASHINGTON - In an important victory for abortion providers, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let stand a federal appellate c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Altheimer & Gray, a 300-lawyer Chicago firm that had been aggressively building its San Francisco office, ...

WASHINGTON - In a case that will affect lawyers and other professionals, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider wheth...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge-to-the-stars Marilyn L. Hoffman has retired after 16 years on the bench. Hoffma...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Friday reversed a man's arson conviction, saying a Los Angeles Superior Court judge commi...

LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney William W. Hodgman got up Friday morning to gather what was left of his sexual-abuse ca...

OAKLAND - In-house counsel at the University of California believe the university should be exempt from lawsuits that bedevil...

SACRAMENTO - A man convicted twice of murdering a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl must either be tried a third time or rele...

SAN JOSE - After months of futile searching for a landlord willing to rent to a convicted child molester, state authorities a...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Duyen Nguyen - Getting fired from a job with a law firm has a way of stirring som...