SAN FRANCISCO - A frustrated federal judge has grudgingly approved settlements totaling $14 million in two shareholder suits,...

Ending nearly two years of doubt and political crisis, Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Monday to revive the State Bar of C...

A legal secretary at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel claims she was ejected from her employment based on e-mail. And the firm a...

Golden Age Pasadena's Hahn & Hahn is celebrating its 100th anniversary. What's the secret to its longevity? By Jeffrey An...

Horse Sense When the bookie lawyer jumps out of the starting gate, he plays to win By Mark B. Vezzani My first assignment as ...

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Filling excess office space shouldn't tear a hole in your pocket By Kimberly Quackenbush When a law firm has extra office spa...

By Stacy L. Cohen In May, Jerry A. Hager, a partner at Los Angeles' Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, got a call from r...

Pact Reached in Cross Controversy SAN DIEGO - After nine years of litigation over a Christian cross in a county-owned park, t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Private companies supplying water to residents of the San Gabriel Valley - much of which constitutes one of t...

By Susan R. Wasserman The Social Security Administration has proposed significant regulatory changes that would make it easie...

Just because a firm intends to establish a contractor relationship doesn't mean state and federal agencies won't classify the ...

Prosecutor Facing Possible Charges INDIO - The state attorney general's office is reviewing possible misdemeanor charges agai...

Cooley Godward SOFTBANK'S NEW VENTURE FOCUSES ON THE INTERNET San Jose-based Softbank Technology Ventures announced the creat...

By Nell Bernstein In 1994 Newt Gingrich sparked a short-lived tempest by suggesting that welfare payments be stopped and the ...

By Garry Abrams On a recent day at his office at Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp in West Los Angeles, attorney Daniel Petroc...

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Samuel Smiles CORR...

SANTA ANA - Lawyers representing a partner in the Fountain Valley law firm of Bridgman, Mordkin & Shapiro confirmed Frida...

VICTORVILLE - After apologizing to the family of two young girls he killed while driving under the influence of alcohol, a fo...

By Martin Berg Daily Journal Staff Reporter Authorities last week arrested four executives of an Irvine-based investment firm...

Hoping to avoid a legal challenge, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled today to vote on whether to give ...

For months, undercover agents had been buying LSD from a young Pasadena man. Then last week, as they were arranging to buy mo...

Any courthouse employee or visitor who has encountered a shackled inmate in an elevator or hallway, or who has witnessed a de...

Despite several court rulings finding similar laws unconstitutional, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled...

With conviction at her pending trial far from a sure thing, former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson...

Alan Michael Genelin's crime-stopping days did not end when he retired last year as chief of the Los Angeles County district ...

WASHINGTON - After a term in which the U.S. Supreme Court saw a protest and congressional scrutiny over the dearth of minorit...

Jury Recommends Death Penalty SAN BERNARDINO - Despite hearing the "horror story" of the defendant's early childhood in war-t...

By Marianne Means Some places are experimentally turning against free, nondiscriminatory public schools to prop up private re...

Claim of Substance New Pleading Requirements in Toxic Tort Cases By Barry N. Endick, Raymond J. Tittmann and William S. Choy ...