Litigation never provides a happy Hollywood ending for everyone because someone always loses. This time it was Raleigh Film an...

LAGUNA BEACH - An artist with the Festival of the Arts of Laguna Beach filed a lawsuit late Wednesday against the festival's b...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Seven more partners are defecting from Landels Ripley & Diamond this week as the 70-attorney San Francisc...

Donald W. Carlson dreamt of starting his own law firm with a few of his closest friends, of the flexibility and focus he could...

Practitioner: Intellectual Property By Karen Marie Kitterman An attorney receives the jubilant call: Venture capital just came...

Dicta: On 'Judging Amy' By Marilyn Sipes Who should decide whether a child in foster care should take Ritalin - a judge or the...

Forum: By David J. Wilson On April 19, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dickerson v. United States, 99-5525, whi...

Expert consultants are critical to the plaintiff's success in elder-abuse lawsuits. Plaintiffs' lawyers working on such cases ...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday appointed Merced court commissioner Betty L. Dawson to the Merced County Superior Cou...

Dicta: On 'Law & Order' By Stephen A. Mansfield At a time when conservatives are re-examining the propriety of the death ...

The Los Angeles chapter of the ACLU filed a federal class-action Thursday against the city of Montebello, asking that the city...

SANTA ANA - A 14-year-old Huntington Beach youth accused of stealing an album of Pokemon trading cards from another youngster ...

Donald W. Carlson and Joyce C. Wang did not start from square one when they agreed to defend the Insurance Company of North Am...

Dicta: On 'Family Law' By Erin O'Bryan What's a lawyer to do when the cops plant drugs on your client in Rampart-esque style i...

Pratitioner: Intellectual Property By Robert Barnes In the four months since its enactment, the Anticybersquatting Consumer Pr...

SACRAMENTO - The state Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the death sentence for convicted murderer Terry Douglas Bemore, sett...

Forum: By Mike Farrell The politically popular pietism currently in vogue raises a few more questions than it conveniently ans...

Dicta: On 'Ally McBeal' By Rebecca Lulow After the first 45 minutes of Monday night's almost unwatchable episode of "Ally McBe...

Two high-profile Westside law firms Thursday filed a $150 million federal class action against the city of Los Angeles on beha...

SACRAMENTO - The chairs of the Senate and Assembly insurance committees together have accepted at least $269,673 since January...

SAN FRANCISCO - A deeply conflicted 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that public money may be used to support ...

The Public Eye: By Ross Johnson Ante up, troops! The thousands of L.A. family law and immigration attorneys who have been avid...

SAN DIEGO - Speaking out for the first time about a golfing conversation that has embroiled him in an investigation by the Com...

At least three police officers who appeared Thursday before the grand jury investigating the Rampart corruption scandal invoke...

Practitioner: Insurance Law By Michael L. Donovan and Andrew W. Miller Companies and governments spent hundreds of billions o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A miscreant, profane, cigar-chomping, sexist, rubberized hand-puppet dog named Triumph may soon find himself a...

SAN JOSE - A giant Japanese computer company agreed to pay $25 million to a Sunnyvale electronics firm to settle a lengthy leg...

The Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles County recently honored the Daily Journal for its in-depth report on the j...

Dicta: Movie Review By Paul Frizler In "Rules of Engagement," the U.S. government subjects a 30-year Marine, Col. Terry Childe...

Practitioner: Insurance Law By Kirk A. Pasich Insurance policies often contain specific requirements about when certain acts m...