LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge has dismissed the $2.5 million punitive damages a jury awarded to five Nicaraguan farmwor...

Forum Column - By Alex Coolman - An Assembly bill that criminalizes the drug salvia is well-intentioned but could ultimately b...

Web Exclusive - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law...

Like Petra Contreras, a growing number of legal permanent residents face deportation proceedings because of old convictions th...

Industry Watch - Daily Journal Staff Writer - Steve Berkman, who was the lone real estate partner in Winston & Strawn's Sa...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge says she's inclined to toss out claims by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage tha...

SACRAMENTO - Breaking up is hard to do, especially when the relationship has been terrific. But that's what the Yuba City offi...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Corporate real estate lawyer Masood Sohaili, a 25-year veteran of O'Melveny & Myers i...

Forum Column - By Martha Burk - Females must ensure that the next president will work to undo the damage to women’s rights tha...

Industry Watch - By Jonathan Vanian - San Francisco-based Heller Ehrman has scooped Nick Seddon, former head of DLA Piper's As...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Olympic cyclist Tammy Thomas took so many steroids that her voice changed and she grew a full beard, ac...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Longtime Heller Ehrman attorney Stephen N. Goldberg has left the firm for Dickstein Shapiro...

Forum Column - By David Llewellyn - A recent case in Malaysia demonstrates the anti-liberty ramifications the introduction of ...

Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys in trouble might not have much longer to bow out gracefully. After months of discuss...

LOS ANGELES - After spending most of the day on tedious chain-of-custody evidence, federal prosecutors dropped a bombshell on ...

Involved in the judicial nominations process debate are, from left, former Republican congressman James E. Rogan, Sen. Patrick...

After what seemed like a dubious start, San Jose Judge Roger Efremsky turned bankruptcy law into his specialty. ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Focus Column - By Jonathan Handel - The new Writers Guild contract shows that the writers faced down six multinational media c...

Industry Watch - By Jonanthan Vanian - Nonprofit Honors Litigator Shernoff

Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage and Jonanthan Vanian - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup ...

SANTA ANA - In January, some Newport Beach residents sued their hometown for adopting an ordinance they say is so feeble that,...

An unexpected affront put Van Nuys Judge Susan Speer on the road to her true love, criminal law. ...

Known for his pugnacity, Andrew Stein, the new president of the Criminal Courts Bar Association, plans to work for increased c...

A new law that makes it easier for federal judges to avoid recusals because of their stock holdings may not be having quite th...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County jury returned a $38 million punitive damages verdict against a Chinese manufacturer on Thursday, ...

SACRAMENTO - California trial lawyers have quietly shelved a package of ballot measures targeting corporate wrongdoers after t...

RIVERSIDE - A federal court jury in Riverside has awarded a recreational vehicle company $3.5 million in compensatory damages ...

Employment Column - By Nancy G. Berner - As the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance works its way through the appella...

LOS ANGELES - In-house lawyers John Page, who has made hiring diverse outside counsel a personal mission, and Naomi Kobayashi,...