As the complexity of proof has grown, so has the cost of litigating matters through trial. ...

By Vernon Jarrett Just as racial profiling by this nation's law-enforcement officers is finally being exposed, evidence of rac...

"There is only one way to deal with a bully, and that's to stand up to him," attorney Pierce O'Donnell told The Eye on Wednesd...

FORUM California's surplus of federal welfare money offers a great opportunity to create local incentive programs that strike ...

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DICTA Whether interviewing a prospective partner or a secretary, determine whether the person matches your firm's culture. Pag...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Sacramento lawyer who won $7.3 million in a slip-and-fall case this week said he bucked the trend of smal...

Evil Additive State Board Releases Draft MTBE Guidelines By Catherine W. Johnson Last month, the California State Water Resour...

The one-time head of California's Civil Rights Enforcement office, Marian Johnston, was recommended Tuesday by Democratic Sen...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association will urge the California Supreme Court to review an appellate decision that some fear t...

In their second recent visit to the San Fernando Valley, members of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners again were ...

TOM KURTZ/For the Daily Journal Veteran San Diego civil litigator Ronald L. Styn and his family, from left, son John, wife Su...

PAMPA, Texas - Down in the Texas panhandle town of Pampa, authorities are poised to try local resident Dewayne Gordon Hickman...

R. Dan Murphy, head of the Los Angeles district attorney's Rampart prosecution team, clearly is uncomfortable talking about h...

SAN FRANCISCO - A peculiar Nevada State Bar rule weakened Tuesday, when a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a...

SAN DIEGO - After what prosecutors describe as years of terrorizing the neighborhood, a Latino gang has been forbidden in a p...

By Stephen R. Barnett If ever a couple of legal crackpots - disgruntled litigants - were tilting at windmills only they could ...

9th Circuit upholds award in case of successful female manager who suffered retaliation after lodging a sex-discrimination com...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four ex-General Dynamics managers, allegedly threatened with firing if they claimed a share of an overtime-pa...

Score one for the little people. A giant railroad company got a homeowners' $1 million noise-nuisance lawsuit dismissed by a ...

SAN DIEGO - Anyone planning to send the kids to college on the proceeds from selling a treasured "vintage cut" - an autograph...

By Barry E. Shanley The pack of wolves has stopped coming at us from our TV screens. Once again, the side with the most money ...

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DICTA Many successful firms use a system of low partner draws coupled with monthly or quarterly profit distributions. ...

DICTA The best way to avoid employee misconduct is to maintain control and stay involved in all aspects of your practice. Page...

In what will bring to 60 the number of cases that will have been thrown out of court due to the Rampart police corruption scan...

A San Diego judge was publicly admonished Wednesday by the state Commission on Judicial Performance for making a series of int...

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday transferred the appeal of a $101 million jury verdict from the San Diego appellate court...

Physical therapist Marjorie Pang took time off from her job in Los Angeles in 1996 to help her elderly mother move from her Ne...

Northern California newspaper editor and publisher Tim Crews probably ought to spend more time in jail. Last Friday's issue o...