SAN JOSE - One day after ordering reporters out of his courtroom because they refused to sign nondisclosure agreements in orde...

Focus Column - By Patricia M. Lucas and Alex Ricciardulli - In the first of a monthly series of MCLE articles, two superior co...

Forum Column - By Dylan B. Carp - You want to be rough and tough in the courtroom, but be careful. Telling the judge what a je...

Interim Suspensions, Ethics Suspension etc.

An entrepreneur thought he had found the perfect platform to sell his mobile-networking company. But a host of legal concerns ...

Plaintiffs' lawyers enjoyed a sharp uptick last year in the size of securities class action settlements, negotiating an averag...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case have produced something they didn't believe existe...

Focus Column - By Peter C. Meier and Kamon D. Naddaf - A recent decision puts some reason back into California consumer law. ...

The state's Good Samaritan law may not protect a woman from liability who is accused of rendering her friend paraplegic when s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Mayor Art Agnos will take over the city's beleaguered Housing Authority, thanks to a trial court judge'...

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - A constitutional lawyer suggests that we all do what is necessary to keep hope of religio...

California deals increased by 4 percent last year, reaching a total of 2,341, according to FactSet Mergerstat, a Santa Monica-...

SAN FRANCISCO - The government does not appear to be giving up in its quest to prosecute the "Guru of Ganja." ...

SANTA ANA - In an unusually large sanction, a judge has slapped a Long Beach lawyer with a $382,000 fine for filing suit frivo...

WASHINGTON - A public-interest law firm that has spearheaded criticism of judicial education junkets accused the federal judic...

LOS ANGELES - In a second round of settlement notices targeted at college students accused of illegally downloading music, the...

Letter to the Editor - We appreciate the Daily Journal's report on the $55 million verdict against DaimlerChrysler Corporation...

SAN DIEGO - Three candidates for fired U.S. Attorney Carol Lam's job have been interviewed by a screening committee that is pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly six years ago Attorney General Bill Lockyer took on a county government he believed was trying to skirt...

SAN FRANCISCO - Legendary criminal defense lawyer J. Tony Serra has been out of prison barely one month, and he's back fightin...

WASHINGTON - Pressure is mounting in Congress for a new investigation into whether the Justice Department demoted the interim ...

SAN JOSE - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Southern California-based parenting Web site that claimed Google...

The newest internal documents released by Justice Department officials won't resolve the debate over the politics behind the U...

WASHINGTON - A Northern California murder case appeared to divide the U.S. Supreme Court along liberal and conservative lines ...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday that litigants can recover attorney fees in cases involving federal bankruptcy issues, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for a former city building inspector accused of taking bribes from contractors called his client ...

Forum Column - By Jonathan Shapiro - Back in the quiet luxury of their chambers, do U.S. Supreme Court justices really talk ab...

A state appellate court Tuesday stopped a Sacramento lawyer from attempting to "play fast and loose with the courts" by contin...

Focus Column - By Jerome B. Falk Jr. and Michael A. Jacobs - Here's how to avoid a jury and get a defendant in a trade secrets...

Forum Column - By Debra B. Self - A mediator is unhappy that Los Angeles County Superior Court's pro bono panel pays her nothi...