POMONA - While appearing at a public meeting in July, new water board member Xavier Alvarez introduced himself to a neighborin...

Don Ernst, the new leader of California's trial lawyers, has a daunting task before him: figure out how to remain a significan...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney found liable for a multimillion-dollar bond fraud scheme allegedly turned state's evidence and serve...

Focus Column - By Peter A. Lynch and David Brisco - Officials investigating who may be responsible for the wildfires that enve...

Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - Trial lawyers must find a way to make drab subjects and complex pieces of evidence worthy of j...

The children who enter Judge Nancy Roberts Lonsdale's Alameda courtroom leave with a stuffed animal - and hope for a better fu...

LOS ANGELES - Despite heavy rainfalls over the weekend, the Metropolitan Water District is considering a contingency plan that...

Lewis G. Feldman, Goodwin Procter's Los Angeles chairman, said his firm has devised a new way for the city of Oxnard to pay fo...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - A California Supreme Court decision gives attorneys who discover their opponents' docume...

Web Exclusive - Crusader Entertainment won the latest round in the high-stakes battle involving the 2005 film "Sahara," when a...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge is allowing a grand jury report, which details the county's jailhouse-informant scandal of the 1...

WASHINGTON - Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig struck out at the U.S. Supreme Court Monday in a last-ditch att...

Forum Colum - By John A. Hall - Mandatory condom usage would ensure a safer workplace for porn actors, but employers claim tha...

Focus Column - By Dana Hobart - Lawyers need to prepare for the ways others may try to avoid paying them agreed-on fees. ...

LOS ANGELES - Securities-fraud filings shot up in the second half of 2007 as the subprime meltdown jounced the stock market, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Winston & Strawn announced Monday that three former intellectual-property attorneys from Nixon Peabody hav...

The Daily Journal announces the top 10 plaintiff verdicts of 2007. ...

ONTARIO - Donald J. Dunn, dean of University of La Verne College of Law and a driving force behind the suburban law school's v...

Web Exclusive - Morrison & Foerster will announce today the addition of prominent life sciences attorney Stephen Thau to i...

“Most judges don’t want to see massive verdicts coming out of their courtroom,” said Luan K. Phan, left, with his client, Kevi...

LOS ANGELES - In a long and often-spirited exchange, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Monday in a ca...

LOS ANGELES - Century City business boutique Tyre Kamins Katz & Granoff has closed shop, with the bulk of its attorneys ri...

WASHINGTON - Despite voicing concerns about lethal-injection executions, the U.S. Supreme Court hinted Monday that it is not r...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that a lower federal court went too far in deciding that a Wiscon...

A lawsuit that convicted terrorist Jose Padilla filed in San Francisco against Boalt Hall professor John Yoo is aimed at skirt...

After nearly three years, the California Supreme Court is finally ready to decide a high-stakes biotechnology dispute between ...

Forum Column - By Brian E. Gray - The EPA's decision to block stricter emissions standards for California violates the states'...

SAN FRANCISCO - There's a new sheriff in town, but he didn't arrive with guns blazing or a posse behind him. Instead, Joseph R...

Forum Column - By Kyla Christofferson - Ambiguous rulings on the limits of tort damages have led to a dismal business climate ...

Focus Column - By Joseph A. Krock and Stevan Porter - Understanding how to approach statistical sampling can be key to develop...