Forum Column - By Joshua Briones and David Grenardo - A lack of diversity in a law firm used to only be a token of political i...
The death of Paul Boland, a longtime judge on the state trial and appellate courts and a pioneer in legal education and streng...
SAN JOSE - Lawsuits against company officers accused of backdating stock-option grants have moved slowly in the year and a hal...
SACRAMENTO - Democratic lawmakers, who say they are still unhappy that the governor is not putting enough women and minorities...
Government
Panel Halts Land Transfer That Would Have Kept Cross on Government Land
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - Saying the government is trying to "evade" an injunction requiring the removal of a controversial metal cross in t...
Hundreds of court interpreters in Los Angeles and two smaller counties went on strike Wednesday after months of trying to nego...
LOS ANGELES - For Los Angeles plaintiffs' attorneys headed to Vegas this weekend, the lucky number is 25. ...
Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - Do you know a judge who fits one of the six styles of listening? ...
Focus Column - By Anthony Label and Cynthia McGuinn - The assumption that liability for negligence in athletic injuries usual...
SACRAMENTO - Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott announced Wednesday that its Sacramento office has snatched a five-lawyer h...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Compliance with Production Requests is Harder Than it Looks
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Richard M. Coleman - The "Musings of a Discovery Referee" series continues with a look at some of the common...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Law Firms Try to Erase Old Claims
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - In an age when attorneys switch law firms as often as they trade in cars, how long a firm is on the hook for a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Data storage company Network Appliance sued Sun Microsystems Wednesday, claiming Sun infringed its patented te...
LOS ANGELES - The slow-moving federal corruption investigation of a Los Angeles-area Republican congressman is about to hit an...
WASHINGTON - A potential obstacle to a bill that would ban the Justice Department from forcing corporate counsel to waive atto...
SACRAMENTO - State officials and water experts Wednesday predicted big impacts from a federal judge's ruling that could cut pu...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Merck Vioxx litigation in Los Angeles has gotten a lot of attention in the last year. But L.A. doesn't hav...
LOS ANGELES - A man who claims a pesticide caused him to be sterile told a psychiatrist he fathered a child and was the subjec...
SAN FRANCISCO - A new commission will study ways to safeguard the independence of California's judiciary in the wake of increa...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday tapped former U.S. Attorney Paul Seave to head a statewide anti-gang program aimed at cu...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
If Judges Shouldn't Be Regulating Ethics, Then Who Should Be?
By Troy Senikn
Letter to the Editor - David C. Velasquez - Regarding the Daily Journal's Aug. 30, 2007, story, "Judicial Branch to Install Ow...
SAN FRANCISCO - Witness intimidation and relocation are on the agenda of a three-day meeting for prosecution investigators hos...
LOS ANGELES - A development company and USC on Tuesday sued a builder for using harassment and legal stalling tactics to delay...
Focus Column - By Peter J. Engstrom and Nancy Chung Allred - A new ruling from the California Court of Appeal signals a shif...
Forum Column - By Richard Sander, Jane Yakowitz and William Henderson - Why has the State Bar of California impeded the effort...
LOS ANGELES - When the major studios and Writer's Guild of America, West come back to the negotiations over their collective b...
An appellate-court ruling will allow Mexican trucks to start using American highways, but legal issues will be tried next year...
SAN JOSE - For the past four years, companies upset with Google Inc. over its practice of selling trademarks for use in keywor...
Santa Cruz Traffic Commissioner Kim E. Baskett takes whatever her busy court throws at her, and still makes time for an occa...
Lauren Thomasson set her sights beyond the racism, and her hardscrabble upbringing, working her way west and onto the bench i...