SACRAMENTO - Some 3,000 state-employed attorneys and administrative law judges would get 8 percent raises, plus salary step i...

SAN JOSE - A second national retail chain has agreed to settle a lawsuit targeting it for allegedly deceiving customers by fa...

WASHINGTON - Washington's traditional summer slumber has ended, and many lawmakers probably wish they could hit the snooze bu...

A transient who was convicted of first-degree murder even though the victim's body has never been found was sentenced Monday ...

^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ The Bar Association of Northern San Diego County has moved into a new building, but the ...

SAN DIEGO - Extraordinary legal maneuvers are promised in a hearing on a motion to dismiss a murder case on the grounds of pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Flush with a state appellate victory curtailing San Jose's minority hiring program, proponents of Proposition...

The final approval Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors of an ordinance banning the sale of guns and ammuni...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Public Defender Carl Holmes argued before a jury nearly two decades ago that there was not enough e...

A report issued by Hastings College of the Law raises questions about a recent immigration policy designed to streamline the ...

David Joe Searcy often jokes that his courtroom has the highest-volume caseload - and the lowest public profile - in Los Ange...

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 ...

^^Professional Responsibility^^ Stress Fracture Immunity for Emotional Distress Caused During Negotiations The court's holdin...

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...