Focus Column - By Peter E. Perkowski and Stephen R. Smerek - The U.S. Supreme Court recently reaffirmed that arbitration claus...

LOS ANGELES - Renzo Pietrobon may have thought he was doing his business attorney a favor when he lent him $100,000 back in 19...

SANTA ANA - In 1970, Michael Brenner was a brand-new deputy district attorney in Los Angeles assigned to the "run." Each week,...

SAN FRANCISCO - The government can seize money from a Los Angeles defendant's retirement account for restitution damages becau...

LOS ANGELES - With mixed results in cases tried in other states, plaintiffs and defense lawyers in the Vioxx litigation appare...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Tony Brass once wore a bulletproof vest and carried a weapon during ...

SAN DIEGO - One Superior Court judge has retired, and a second says he'll step down from the bench early in April.

PLAINTIFF POWER - James McLean learned that being left out of the loop can be very hard on one's wallet: $8.3 million, to be e...

LOS ANGELES - When Craig J. Mitchell was a teacher at Junipero Serra High School in South Los Angeles, he spent his summers on...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo sued the owner of two downtown residency hotels Wednesday, demanding...

LOS ANGELES - When an 11-year-old boy was busted for allegedly pinching a girl's butt in gym class in rural Butte County, law ...

LOS ANGELES - Facing serious criminal charges in connection with the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping probe, entertainment lawyer...

PLAINTIFF POWER - For attorney Michael J. Piuze, the outcome of Cory v. Ford Motor Co., BC275178 (San Bernardino Super. Ct., v...

SAN FRANCISCO - Angela Chan remembers struggling in elementary school. As the Oregon-born daughter of Chinese immigrants, she ...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - An initiative to bar California state courts from assessing punitive damages in product-li...

Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - The history of the founding of our country and of the years afterward is replete with ug...

PLAINTIFF POWER - Jessica L. Grant, an associate at the Furth Firm in San Francisco, had a big win for her first case working ...

PLAINTIFF POWER - The trial lasted four weeks and at times included dense testimony from disputing antitrust economists and fe...

PLAINTIFF POWER - Karate champion Billy Blanks punched his former attorney and firm with a malpractice case that resulted in a...

PLAINTIFF POWER - Elizabeth Dominguez, a 4-year-old San Franciscan, died instantly and violently when a city worker driving a ...

Focus Column - By Thomas C. Klein Minority - shareholders objecting to the acquisition of their corporation may dissent from t...

Eleven angry juries delivered more than a billion dollars worth of verdicts that make up the Daily Journal's 2005 list of Top ...

PLAINTIFF POWER - It was the biggest verdict that wasn't. The jury hit Toshiba and its U.S. subsidiary with California's large...

PLAINTIFF POWER - Jim P. Mahachek, a partner with Callahan & Blaine in Santa Ana, successfully represented his client in a...

PLAINTIFF POWER - One of nation's largest mortgage companies didn't refund $7.2 million, and as a result, GMAC Commercial Mort...

PLAINTFF POWER - John Quisenberry, owner of Quisenberry Law Group in Century City, and his colleague Heather McKeon took on in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Straight? Unhappy? Justin Watt was searching online Sept. 19 when the words popped into his head. The 26-year-...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ross Nadel, the former chief of the criminal division under U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan, is to join Cooley Godwar...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether the auditor PricewaterhousCoopers ...

PLAINTIFF POWER - Eric Dubin, a plaintiffs' lawyer with a solo practice in Irvine, was 39 when he pressed Robert Blake in a Lo...