By Karen M. Clemes. The traditional workplace is being redefined as employers and employees opt for flexible work arrangements...

By Karen Coleman. Leading corporate transactions firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has landed another high-profile senior attorn...

The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday approved the condemnation by eminent domain of a San Fernando Valley property for a new...

SAN FRANCISCO - Now, four judges are on the recall list in Marin County. Verna A. Adams, who was appointed by Gov. Gray Davis ...

The case of a man imprisoned for 22 months on allegedly false charges made by officers involved in the Rampart police corrupti...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to reappoint a member of the Board of Police Commissioners to a second term, but ...

The Mondrian hotel may have to take to heart the adage "pretty is as pretty does." The chic Sunset Strip establishment, home o...

The Los Angeles Paranoia Index [LAPI] has gone through the roof, thanks to next week's Democratic National Convention. Fear of...

A group planning protests during next week's Democratic National Convention attempted Wednesday to deliver a dozen "demands" t...

Patrick J. Naughton, a darling of the dot-com scene until he was caught trying to have sex with an undercover government agent...

A state court of appeal ruling has granted new life to a battle waged by the owners of a historic San Francisco hotel against ...

It's T minus three days until the Democratic National Convention, and rumors are flying about protests that specifically targe...

By Alexander S. Polsky. Poor results in arbitration occur when attorneys do not prepare and when counsel convey an air of disi...

By Paul Krugman. Napster's big mistake, clearly, was basing itself in California. It should have operated out of Jersey. Not t...

Entertainment and new-media specialist Ian C. Ballon and corporate and securities attorney Richard J. Maire Jr. have joined th...

Manuel A. Abascal, a former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted a sophisticated Internet "pump and dump" scheme last year, ...

By Allonn E. Levy. Imagine your child is home sick with the flu. Instead of missing her school lessons, she spends the afterno...

Some lawyers can really pound sand. After coming in third for the last three years, a team of public and private lawyers took ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $1.5 million settlement to the family of a 32-year-old inmat...

SANTA ANA - A Santa Ana city councilman will claim entrapment in his defense against federal charges that he conspired to exto...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County woman has filed a lawsuit against her former employer, a Santa Ana company that markets Christian...

Aided by a conservative legal group, convicted Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung sued the U.S. Justice Department Tuesday, a...

The nation's two-party system has a counterpart in Los Angeles law firms: those who are concerned about the logistics of work...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clarifying what constitutes sufficient evidence of potential racial profiling to merit a jury trial, a federal...

A community meeting in a mid city police station Tuesday turned tense over fears that protesters at the upcoming Democratic Na...

By John M. Curtis. Average American families now spend about half a year working for federal, state and local governments. Mos...

By The Rodent. The aging secretary whose fingers haven't touched a computer keyboard or a Federal Express label in more than a...

By Clyde Leland. Choose quotes carefully and present them so the reader understands their importance. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court Monday ordered a trial for a surrogate mother seeking custody of a son whose conceptio...

By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus. Desired Declaration Lack of Disclosure Reversible Error Only if Party Prejudiced Al...