LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Preciliano P. Recendez. Recendez,...

WASHINGTON - Democrats are keeping their options open over whether to filibuster controversial judicial nominee Terrence W. B...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco attorney John Zanghi discovered the hard way that pro pers can pack a punch in court. Zanghi, 4...

EXTRA Feature - Mitch Mitchell has built his career on being a man of many worlds. Early in his career, that meant putting his...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor-Elect Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday named five senior members to his new administration. Rob...

SANTA ANA - Nancy Weiben Stock will be the next presiding judge of the Orange Superior Court. Stock, the acting assistant pres...

Changes - They say all good things must end, as Daily Journal Extra does with this issue. In many ways, though, this is merely...

We've learned in life that finishing a book can mean the beginning of a new one, rather than the ending of the old. And so it...

SAN FRANCISCO - Representatives of New York-based Coudert Bros. and Chicago's Baker & McKenzie refused to confirm or deny ...

INDUSTRIAL COMMERCE - U.S. Can Corp. signed a 10-year, $15 million lease for a 499,041-square-foot industrial building at 565...

REDLANDS - Seven years ago, Jeffrey S. Raynes won a $9.3 million jury verdict for a boy after proving that a medical technicia...

Employment Column - By John E. Lattin IV - Class actions were created as a matter of convenience. In modern American jurisprud...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - Call it the politics of symbolism. We think of it today on an angry international scale: • A ...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Insurance carriers frequently seek to deny coverage for insureds on the gro...

SANTA ANA - A federal judge dealt a blow to the marriage plans of two Orange County men Thursday, ruling that federal law doe...

LOS ANGELES - State auditors are examining an increase in the use of outside counsel by City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, accord...

LOS ANGELES - The makers of the blood thinner Lovenox misled a U.S. patent examiner, thereby forfeiting its corner of the dru...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government announced a new settlement Thursday with oil companies that it said would reduce air p...

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO - A group of parents sued the Capistrano Unified School District on Thursday, asking a judge to void new a...

LOS ANGELES - A sharply divided state Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that an operator of a roller coaster or other amusement...

LOS ANGELES - Former Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., on Monday will join DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary in the firm's government a...

SANTA ANA - A jury Thursday awarded the family of a Huntington Beach man struck and killed by a big rig $1.9 million in damage...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. has recused himself from the long-pending criminal case against alleged...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the nation's most closely watched, longest-running intellectual property cases may have finally ended ...

LOS ANGELES - If music were against the law, Jack J. Gold would be a career criminal, a third-striker, a recidivist's recidiv...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court seemed deeply troubled Thursday by the U.S. government's refusal to sell or return th...

INDUSTRIAL CARLSBAD - Total Training Inc. signed a 10-year, $3.77 million lease for 17,236 square feet of research-and-develop...

SAN FRANCISCO - A deal to reduce refinery pollution pushed by the federal government could actually harm efforts to clean up ...

Forum Column - By Bruce Zucker - In 1994, Jerry Valdivia, a parolee facing a parole violation, filed a class action against th...

Forum Column - By James Mosher - Flavored alcoholic beverages such as Bacardi Silver, Smirnoff Ice and Skye Blue are mixed dri...