Focus Column - By Paul V. Carelli IV - An amendment to the Tort Reform Act has implications for anyone considering filing a se...

Letter to the Editor - The rules governing punitive-damages awards should be upheld in order to protect consumers and hold cor...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a broad new attack on a pioneering California consumer warning law, industry lawyers asked the federal Food...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prominent Silicon Valley businessman who sat on several corporate boards and started his own semiconductor c...

WASHINGTON - In another blow to shareholders of disgraced energy giant Enron Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected...

Tom Kuhnle is the first out-of-county lawyer to serve as president of the Santa Clara County Bar Association. His office at Bi...

LOS ANGELES - A new agreement allowing U.S. officials to deport undocumented Vietnamese immigrants to their homeland is also e...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Unified School District's general counsel is leaving his post for a vice chancellor position at ...

RIVERSIDE - The state Supreme Court will consider a controversial Riverside County Superior Court policy that limits which typ...

Superior Court Judge David W. Stuart presides in the same hallowed halls where he first wandered as a law student looking for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups fighting for tougher controls on pollution runoff from Southern California roads have rea...

The Daily Journal's annual roundup of 20 California lawyers younger than 40 spotlights folks making huge deals, trying high-st...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - As talks of a recession cast a gloom over the U.S. economy, things look bright for Sonnen...

Thursday night, the Orange County Bar Association made Cathrine M. Castaldi its president for 2008. ...

Although he's a distant relative of 'Wild Bill' Hickok, Philip H. Hickok is no rule-from-the-hip judge. ...

LOS ANGELES - Robert McGahan, one of the lead federal prosecutors in the criminal case against the Milberg Weiss class-action ...

Forum Column - By Stan Yogi - Years before the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision, Californians waged their ...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - Fred Griffin is expanding his practice quickly, as the newest member of Dreier Stein Kahan ...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Patent prosecution attorney Grant T. Langton has a new home today - the Los Angeles office...

Industry Watch - By Pat Broderick - A partner in the real estate, land use and environmental practice group of Sheppard Mullin...

LOS ANGELES - In an effort to deal with the massive caseload in California's Central District, some civil cases will go direct...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will decide whether a key federal civil rights law protects workers ...

Focus Column - By Ilana S. Rubel - Internet aggregators who take information from other sites without authorization likely wil...

Industry Watch - By Amity Bacon - The U.S. Supreme Court has set a milestone with the appointment of the first woman as specia...

In his recently published book, "A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Camp...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo acknowledges his office has spent almost all of his annual budget for outside cou...

Texas attorney David L. Sheller got what he wanted from the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles, which erased his $95,...

Judge Susan Etezadi's experiences with the law have taken her as far as The Hague and, most recently, landed her on the bench ...

SAN DIEGO - A California lawyer has won a $188 million verdict for a Mexican businessman who claimed a Texan defamed him in a ...

Industry Watch - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's l...