In his annual address to the State Bar, Chief Justice Ronald M. George warned bar leaders against "returning to the status qu...

The gun industry lost a round Monday in its battle with several local cities, including Los Angeles, when a U.S. District jud...

The State Bar of California held its annual meeting last week in Long Beach, and the big news was that there wasn't any. The ...

SACRAMENTO - Crips, Bloods, Tiny Rascals and LAPD officers. At first glance, it might seem ludicrous to include members of the...

WASHINGTON - This time Ron Klain didn't get away. The 38-year-old Klain, long-heralded as one of the young stars of the Clint...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Monday approved the hiring of a popular - and reportedly tough - former child ...

SAN DIEGO - A law preventing peace officers from carrying firearms after they are convicted of battery has been found unconst...

Supervisors to Hear Courthouse Costs RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County Board of Supervisors should learn how much the construc...

When a deal was close on a recent multibillion-dollar transaction, Ronald S. Beard packed his bags and headed off on vacation...

^^Employee Benefits Law^^ By Charles P. Teixeira For the time being in California, only state courts can make initial determi...

Most merger or acquisition transactions have significant tax implications. The transaction may be structured as a taxable sale...

Attorney: Press Accounts Wrong RIVERSIDE - The attorney for the grandfather arrested after his granddaughter was discovered c...

By Garry Abrams The mania for merging entertainment and media entities in this decade has spun off at least two kinds of lega...

By Josh Grossberg JAMS/Endispute, a national leader in for-profit alternative dispute resolution, just got a little bit small...

Gibson Dunn HILTON AND PROMUS HOTELS COMBINE TO GO BIG TIME In a deal valued at $4 billion, Hilton Hotels will acquire Promus...

By John F. McLean The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, 15 U.S.C. Section 18a, requires the parties to me...

All in the Family John McNicholas has woven family, faith and law together. He practices with two of his sons and one of his ...

The net operating losses of a target company are often its most valuable possessions. But the acquiring company must structur...

By Paul Kiesel Two pieces of advice I'm afraid I should have listened to but didn't are don't read in the dark or you'll need...

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke Musick P...

By Elizabeth Freudenthal More than 25 years ago, young John Osborn, still reeling from the rigors of Harvard Law School and a...

^^Construction Law^^ Making Sure Obligations Under Construction Payment Bonds The scope of potential liability is important n...

After a recent series of managerial appointments at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison , four out of the firm's five California ...

Bench Recused For Bribery Trial A Los Angeles Municipal Court judge has recused the entire Municipal Court bench from hearing...

By Alan J. Barton Each acquisition involves a purchase and sale contract in which the purchaser of the target company obtains...

By Leslie A. Gordon Kenton King, a mergers and acquisitions partner at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, used to spend h...

SACRAMENTO - Here are the major provisions of a three-bill package on low-cost auto insurance. The legislation awaits action ...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered the district attorney's office to tell him why he should not vacate a man's 19...

ROBERT LEVINS/Daily Journal Los Angeles Municipal Court Presiding Judge Veronica S. McBeth and City Attorney James K. Hahn, ...

SAN DIEGO - Saying that circumstances in a case of a woman convicted of shaking a baby to death didn't justify a sentence les...