A Roundtable Discussion: Anyone who has used a computer, played the stock market or even mildly kept in the news loop has hear...

The Public Eye: By Ross Johnson The hip-shaking and pot-banging you heard coming out of Los Angeles law offices Thursday was b...

Forum: By Jennifer Lynn Orff On Feb. 3, Marian Rubin, a New Jersey grandmother, was arrested when she went to pick up film at...

AT ISSUE: By Deborah Rosenthal California based clothing manufacturer Guess? Inc., recently won a $7.6 million arbitration awa...

Litigator Profile: By Deborah Rosenthal If Daniel M. Petrocelli had been a better musician, O.J. Simpson never might have been...

SAN FRANCISCO - An insurance company charged with handling a claim in bad faith cannot reduce its damages by arguing that the ...

SANTA ANA - There's a new "Top Gun" trial lawyer in Orange County. Daniel J. Callahan of Santa Ana's Callahan & Blaine sho...

Viewpoint dot.COMmentary: By Mark S. Lee The Internet is a powerful medium of communication, education, entertainment and comm...

SPECIAL ISSUE: CORPORATE LAW By Nancy J. Warren The pressures on in-house attorneys are enormous and threaten to increase as c...

Bet Tzedek Plans 2000 Justice Ball The Lakers' MVP, Shaquille O'Neil, and Emmy-winner Camryn Manheim of TV's "The Practice" fa...

In a case of what might be called cod laundering, a former fishing boat captain and a fish distributor have pleaded guilty to ...

SANTA ANA - For 20,000 California teachers, their lesson in retirement planning and finance came the hard way. Victims of an a...

The good news is that in 75 percent of discrimination cases against the city of Los Angeles during the past three years, there...

Los Angeles has lost its Renaissance man. Attorney and business trouble-shooter Harry L. Usher, who, with Peter Uebberoth, hea...

RIVERSIDE - The mother was "Helen," the 13-year-old daughter was "Pamela" and their correspondent was a Riverside man interest...

Most Southern California party planners would say a one-in-five RSVP rate is pretty darn good, especially during the weeks lea...

WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives, in what has become an annual ritual, voted Thursday to restore to the Legal Service...

SAN DIEGO - This city was no legal backwater in the early 1980s, with at least its share of bank failures, Ponzi schemes and f...

A police department board of rights hearing for an officer implicated in the Rampart corruption scandal ground to a halt Thurs...

Practitioner: Criminal Law By Laurie L. Levenson The U.S. Supreme Court has decided many important criminal-procedure cases th...

Minor Matters Recent Amendments Affect Personal-Services Contracts By Mylene J. Brooks As the epicenter for entertainment-rel...

Services for attorney Albert J. Ashkar Jr. will be Friday. Ashkar, who suffered from multiple sclerosis for more than 20 year...

By Nicholas Young The unification movement was first espoused nearly 100 years ago by legal theorist and educator Roscoe Poun...

^^Employment Law^^ Promises, Promises Employers May Rescind Unilaterally Adopted Policies Without Employee Assent In light of...

It is time to stop treating members of different businesses differently when dividing up business assets in a divorce. Spouses...

SAN DIEGO - In her third and final day of testimony in a hearing on a motion to dismiss charges against the man convicted of m...

A homeowners' insurer is not required to defend a man accused of sexually assaulting and raping a deaf Riverside girl, a divid...

A former Rampart gang suppression officer denied at his board of rights hearing Wednesday that he unnecessarily roughed up a ...

Feeding off the recently bankrupt, ever-shrinking Landels Ripley & Diamond, Morrison & Foerster snagged six new attor...

The widows and orphans of five crew members who died in the crash of Egypt Air's Flight 990 filed suit Wednesday in Los Angel...