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 ...

Alternative-workweek arrangements can include 12-hour days if overtime is paid after 10 hours. Page 7 Wrinkle in Time Interim ...

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...

DENVER - Failing to persuade Congress to restrict gun show sales nationwide, President Clinton brought his message to Colorad...

UCLA School of Law Alumni Association President George Schiavelli, center, was joined by U.S. District Judge Gary Taylor and a...

A letter to the editor (April 4) from L.A. Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks complains that I was "quick to label the f...

Gov. Gray Davis has decreed that prisoners sentenced to indeterminate sentences (so-called "lifers") will not be granted parol...

SAN FRANCISCO - Planning a mass arrest or some act of civil disobedience? As with any activity with legal ramifications, movi...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A young San Francisco lawyer copied confidential documents from clients in a bid to extort a lucrative retir...

By Thomas Elias Ignoring the concept of the income tax, as the deadline for filing state and federal returns looms very close,...

FORUM The Supreme Court in Southworth provides a blueprint for causing the entire student-activity-fee system to implode. ...

In an attempt to avoid the kind of officer law-breaking associated with the Rampart scandal, the Los Angeles Police Departmen...

SANTA ANA - Glendora lawyer John Franklyn Watkins, a private investigator and a LaVerne couple pleaded not guilty Tuesday to ...

^^Alternative Dispute Resolution^^ California's mediation confidentiality statutes were thought to be the broadest in the Unit...

^^San Diego Watch Martin Kruming^^ ROLE MODEL EXTRAORDINAIRE : Even as he battled cancer, Reaves Elledge used to go into the c...

SAN FRANCISCO - A panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal heard arguments Tuesday on the state Department of Justice's appe...

SANTA ANA - For more than two months, Orange County jurors have listened patiently to testimony in a lawsuit filed by an elde...

Despite a man's contention that two of the most disgraced officers in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department - Rafae...

Attempts by Los Angeles County court workers to halt unification-driven changes in their duties have come to an abrupt stands...

SAN FRANCISCO - It all began for Dennis Cusack when he took a six-month break from his life as partner at the busy San Francis...

DICTA The best way for a firm to stand out is to be a specialist. ...

Karl Marx is helping sell books about James Dean on the Internet. That thought crossed my mind Monday when Glendale attorney R...

DICTA The 'I'm in trial, at the printer or at a closing' excuse can be used for missing firm functions and to get you out of a...

Los Angeles-based Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott has elected complex civil litigator Scott P. DeVries - who joined the f...