By Randall L. Mason and Jeffry A. Miller Our clients' stress level has just gone down. In a triumph for common sense, the Cal...

KEY TO VICTORY. Herbert Hafif simplified a bitter business valuation dispute by using the plaintiff as the only witness on all...

By John McCloud If there is a hotter, tighter office market in the country than San Mateo County, it must be hot and tight in...

By Geoffrey C. Arrobio Overall, those living in the Southland region feel "very positive" about their economic future as the ...

When the local tax bill comes due Ventura County is a relatively affordable location for business, but tight growth policies ...

TORT LAW By Lorenzo E. Gasparetti and Eric T. Jorgensen. Those who suspect that their trade secrets have been misappropriated ...

By Ross Johnson. Memo to: Joe Eszterhas: Hollywood screenwriter, big-foot journalist, heavy thinker From: Joe Lieberman; U.S. ...

By Donald H. Oppenheim. Mergers of firms of equal size and strength are the most difficult kind to actuate as they often end u...

TORT LAW By Raphael Metzger. Three years ago, the California Supreme Court issued a landmark toxic-tort decision in Rutherford...

By Tim Snodgrass With inventories at a minimum in many regions throughout the United States, would-be or current real estate ...

By Ronald McNees Conejo is the Spanish word for rabbit, but there will be no puns about how the Conejo Valley office market i...

SANTA ANA - A former assistant vice chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, has sued the school, two of its admini...

A Los Angeles judge Thursday sternly ordered the city attorney's office and police investigators to turn over videotapes seize...

A 23-year-old El Segundo man was arrested Thursday and accused of fabricating a press release that caused the high-tech firm E...

SAN DIEGO - County officials pressured one of their employees to push through a lease that now is the subject of a public corr...

A federal appellate court ruled Thursday that a lawyer need not be disqualified from a case just because another member of his...

Ruling that the lawsuit was based on dubious logic, the 2nd District Court of Appeal Thursday dismissed a Medi-Cal beneficiari...

Tax attorney Robert Browning Ballantyne died last Friday of a heart attack at Limerick Guest Home, a residential board and car...

SACRAMENTO - In a surprise move, state lawmakers Thursday revived a controversial measure intended to prevent police from maki...

IRVINE - Six hundred teachers and counselors came to school a week early Wednesday to sit through a daylong class in a hotel b...

From the time Juan Jose Gutierrez entered high school, he vowed to dedicate his life to helping immigrants like himself obtain...

Doug sits quietly in his attorney's conference room. Mostly he looks down, fixated on the patchwork of ridges he raises by squ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that a lawyer need not be disqualified from a case just because another member of hi...

SANTA ANA - Orange County officials lost their court challenge Wednesday to a proposed initiative requiring them to spend toba...

Score one for the 747s. Perennial airport critic Robert Hensler lost a legal battle Wednesday to keep the Burbank-Glendale-Pas...

The judge postponed the arraignment Wednesday on murder charges of three teen-agers in the stabbing death of a 17-year-old boy...

In the wake of a recent ruling that declared the Los Angeles municipal code governing demonstrations unconstitutional, city an...

A federal judge's decision to allow the Los Angeles Police Department to be sued under a racketeering statute is likely to pus...

Like any good businessman, Keng Liang "Anson" Wong seemed concerned about minimizing his risks, but he also looked to be willi...

Attorneys for medical marijuana advocates contend that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Tuesday barring distribution of the dru...