The state Supreme Court will consider whether a state law banning imports of goods made from certain exotic animals should be ...

LOS ANGELES - Companies who use coupons to settle massive consumer fraud class actions are having to work a little harder thes...

A group of American attorneys is headed to London this week to train Sudanese lawyers representing victims of the violence in ...

Robert Hull was among the 1,900 people who passed the February bar exam. Just 36.8 percent of the 5,167 successfully took the ...

Criminal trial work was supposed to be a stepping stone to the big money for Timothy Casserly, but it proved too interesting f...

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Dependency Court Commissioner Gary G. Bischoff has proved in two decades that children, parents, lawyers and judges can count ...

With 27 years’ experience as a civil litigator, Judge Charles David Wachob knows exactly what he wants from lawyers: punctuali...

Superior Court Judge Haley Fromholz’s recent ruling that four people can seek damages against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese o...

LOS ANGELES - County officials have refused to release a series of reports on how the county manages its multimillion-dollar l...

Focus Column – By Robert A. Steinberg – When you enter a mediation, you are negotiating with the mediator, not just the other ...

Forum Column — By Tammy Fox-Isicoff — Although comprehensive immigration reform is a must, no immigration reform would be bett...

Letter to the Editor - The Daily Journal is predictably myopic in its assessments of the best of this, and the best of that, o...

RIVERSIDE - The county's judge without a court is back on the bench.For the past month, Judge Gary Tranbarger has been barred ...

SAN JOSE - Two weeks ago, Morrison & Foerster touted what it characterized as a rare triumph: a decision by plaintiffs' la...

With no experience litigating civil rights suits, four associates from Davis, Wright & Tremaine emerged with a victory whe...

Forum Column — By C. Matthew Schulz — In the debate on immigration reform, little has been said about the danger posed to Amer...

Employment column — By Wendy M. Lazerson and Carlos Mino — A federal ruling approving a warrantless FBI search of an employee’...

SAN DIEGO - Judge Thomas Ashworth III could be considered a survivor by judicial standards. For 13 of his 16 years on the San ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California high-performance semiconductor company says it has won a significant victory in a patent...

Letter to the Editor - I took offense at the incredible suggestion that the court should somehow be harsher on homeless people...

The lawyer for former Brocade CEO Gregory Reyes argues to dismiss the criminal case against his client because the accounting ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A New York federal appeals court Thursday issued a major jurisdictional ruling that probably means billions of...

WASHINGTON - For the first time in 17 years, Congress is moving to substantially boost the ranks of the federal judiciary, inc...

VALENCIA - The bailiff led the young man into the courtroom, and Commissioner Kevil W. Martin called his case. ...

Former Justice Department official Monica M. Goodling told Congress Wednesday that she considered political affiliation when s...

LOS ANGELES - Around this time last year, Goodwin Procter's Century City office was just approaching its one-month anniversary...

Generation Y may be less loyal and more self-absorbed than preceding generations, but that hasn't stopped large law firms from...

LOS ANGELES - As a prominent civil-rights lawyer's federal criminal trial began Wednesday, prosecutors charged that he hid ass...