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...

MURRIETA - It's a raw, up-close-and-personal look at his life as a member of the Crips. Now, Colton Simpson's critically accla...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - New studies by researchers from Columbia, Princeton and Harvard again found that you...

Focus Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan - Effective Jan. 1, the Legislature raised the uppermost jurisdictional limit of the sma...

Forum Column - By Daniel M. Kolkey - It's counterintuitive, but true: You have to learn to be a judge before you can learn to ...

LOS ANGELES - As Congress races to adopt some kind of immigration reform, a group of prominent federal judges is asking lawmak...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding t...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared to struggle with weighty intellectual property issues and thorny proce...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Peruvian man linked to the torture of members of a violent left-wing political group lost his bid for asylum...

SAN DIEGO - Usually, it's the Superior Court judges who covet a temporary assignment to the appellate court - not the other wa...

SAN FRANCISCO - The commercial value of three Native American petroglyphs: $800. The archaeological value of three Native Amer...

LOS ANGELES - In an aborted bid to represent himself, celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano recently told a federal judge he...

SAN DIEGO - A big man in a suit swaggered toward a youth wearing a leather coat and ordered him to stand up. "I could kick you...

Letter to the Editor - Paralleling Erwin Chemerinsky's thought in his first paragraph regarding the Supreme Court ("Court Snub...

Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Can unmarried parents stipulate to the termination of...

RIVERSIDE - The Senate has unanimously confirmed U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen G. Larson to fill a vacancy on the federal Dist...

LOS ANGELES - Gus Gomez is no stranger to public office. He's been a Glendale city councilman as well as Glendale's mayor. So ...

LOS ANGELES - Voicing concern over attorney-client confidentiality, the State Bar has decided to oppose proposed legislation t...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the elite of San Francisco society gathers at a black tie gala Wednesday to raise money for California's ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court considered Monday whether 911 calls and other out-of-court statements made by crime victim...

Letter to the Editor - I am certain you'll be pleased that I am not writing this time to accuse the Daily Journal of having a ...