WASHINGTON - Call it a renaissance year for U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. For the first time, the court posted free, sam...

LOS ANGELES - Three veteran judges are set to retire this month from the Los Angeles County Superior Court. ...

Forum Column - by Don A. Ernst - The latest study claiming to rank so-called “anti-business” state legal systems is another af...

Industry Watch - By Anne Marie Ruff - Ricardo J. Soto has moved from the state Office of the Secretary of Education to the San...

SAN BERNARDINO - A state appeals court Friday tossed out a $3 million libel judgment against a Hesperia-based newspaper publis...

Prosecutors in San Diego won't fight an appellate court ruling that found they buried evidence that could have cleared a murde...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Susan Lapsley, an adviser on elections policy to the former secretary of...

Industry Watch - By Max Follmer - LOS ANGELES - Squire, Sanders & Dempsey snagged veteran litigators Steven A. Lamb and Do...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - Perkins Coie's Los Angeles office has added complex commercial litigator Dona...

Forum Column - By John H. Sullivan - The rant from the plaintiffs' bar about the latest bad news on the fairness and reasonabl...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - We may never know who murdered Biggie or Tupac, but it looks like one front in...

A memorial service will take place May 20 at Paso Robles City Hall for attorney Paul M. Posner, a key figure in the state's un...

Focus Column - By Bernard S. Kamine - A legislative change and an appellate opinion together mean the changed-conditions claus...

Industry Watch - By Bobbi Murray - LOS ANGELES - Veteran construction litigator Stuart J. Einbinder has joined the commercial ...

In what may be the first of many claims against the Los Angeles Police Department stemming from the May 1 immigration rally, a...

After months of legal wrangling, the Securities and Exchange Commission has invoked a rarely used power and filed a subpoena e...

A federal appeals court Friday reinstated a class action against Microsoft and Best Buy, saying the case could go forward unde...

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Letter to the Editor - I am offended not so much by John C. Eastman's anti-abortion article on April 30 as by the Daily Journa...

Judge Irma Brown wants to see kids succeed and has a deep knowledge of community resources for helping the juveniles in her co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four years after a prison inmate was beaten unconscious by gang members, his attorneys have negotiated a $210...

Attorney Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. helped found a free legal clinic at Los Angeles’ Brookins Community African Methodist Episcopa...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County Superior Court judge insisted Thursday that he is not locked in a feud with the county's distri...

David Rosenzweig, a longtime editor and federal courts reporter for the Los Angeles Times, died of cancer Wednesday at his San...

SACRAMENTO - A former state education worker has won a $7.6 million jury award for injuries suffered when his bosses retaliate...

Forum Column – by Alex Landon – For the past quarter-century, California has been building more prisons to house ever more pri...

Focus Column – By H. Scott Leviant - In Pioneer Electronics, the California Supreme Court reaffirmed and strengthened i...

Web Exclusive - An attorney stiffed by an ungrateful client finally gets a payday for his "extraordinary efforts," courtesy of...

SAN FRANCISCO - V. Gene McDonald has been a neutral at JAMS for 10 years, but his career as a professional case-settler didn't...

Forum Column – By Donald Kilmer - As long as those advocating “common-sense” gun control are perceived as the same people poun...