Health Fair New Laws Will Dramatically Change Managed-Care Litigation A new state agency called the Department of Managed Car...

By Corky Pickering The world's attention has been recently focused on the often neglected subject of international criminal l...

Audits OK'd for County Contractors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to authorize audits of all custo...

Couple Denies Food Bank Crimes SANTA ANA - LaVerne residents Steven and Denise Helen Oleesky pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a ...

Supervisors OK Changes to PD SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 Tuesday to implement t...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County political club that donates hundreds of thousands of dollars to state, federal and local election...

In a significant shift of political strategy, state judicial leaders are preparing to ask Gov. Gray Davis to give state judge...

SAN FRANCISCO - Willie Brown and Clint Reilly don't often agree, but on campaign spending limits they're in sync. The mayoral...

One of three defendants indicted in a high-tech scheme to cheat on the Law School Admissions Test pleaded guilty Tuesday to a...

An agreement embraced Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors that was brokered by a state lawmaker could lead...

The American Board of Trial Advocates has presented its highest journalism award to Los Angeles Daily Journal staff writer Ga...

Morrison & Foerster has opened a San Diego office in Carmel Valley with one attorney and more expected beginning next mon...

New York-based Chadbourne & Parke is losing its Los Angeles insurance and reinsurance litigation group with the departure...

Angered animal rights advocates say a recent wrestling match between 300-pound Huntington Beach weight lifter Dominic Menaldi...

WASHINGTON - For the third time in as many years, a bipartisan group of congressmen that includes some senior lawmakers is pl...

In a boon to class action objectors, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that class members retain the ability to oppose at...

As if the issue of unification of Los Angeles' trial courts had not turned contentious enough, members of the state Republican...

Riverside DA Reorganizes Staff Two trial lawyers in the Riverside District Attorney's office have been promoted to supervisin...

Judge Is Asked to Suspend Ruling The county of Los Angeles filed a motion Monday with U.S. District Judge Richard A. Paez ask...

Dealmaker Leaves Sheppard Mullin Corporate and securities dealmaker Larry Braun is leaving Los Angeles-based Sheppard, Mullin...

Crumbling Wall? High Court Set to Address Aid to Parochial Schools Underlying the voucher debate and the entire issue of gove...

Speaking Terms You can't spin your story if you skip the interview By Michael S. Sitrick You're in the middle of complicated ...

Finding the Way Out of the Health Insurance Maze By Kim Quackenbush Like other big corporations in the late 1980s, many law f...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and his brother, San Francisco Federal District Court Judge Charles...

SEATTLE - Across the country, legal pundits are already writing the obituary for the practice of environmental law. Superfund...

The question of whether Howard Miller legally can serve as chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District...

Prompted by the alleged mistreatment of custodial workers who cleaned the courthouse in Long Beach, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsk...

^^U.S. SUPREME COURT HIGHLIGHTS^^ Among actions announced Monday by the justices were: OPINION SEARCH AND SEIZURE: In a unani...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether federal law pre-empts suits by accident victims against rail...

One of two prosecutors assigned to the attempted police car bombing case of former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier ...