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...

Letter to the Editor - Regarding "Criminalizing Lawyers Undermines Bid to Protect Human Rights" (June 9 Daily Journal): Thanks...

Letter to the Editor - Regarding Diane Karpman's article about the commercial origins of the Ten Commandments monuments ("From...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers at Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott have tried some of California's biggest civil cases, some valu...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Wednesday struck down the latest challenge brought by Southern California cities to e...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Wanted: Low-mileage, high-credibility witness. Must combine innocence and charm of well-behaved tod...

SAN DIEGO - Claiming that they are the victims of "hostility" against their religion, Vietnamese Buddhists have sued San Dieg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired San Francisco police officers are pursuing a class action that could sweeten their pensions by an est...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court said Wednesday it would not review a Los Angeles appeal court's decision to reverse a ...

LOS ANGELES - You can call him The Artist or His Royal Badness, but don't call Prince happy. The Minneapolis-based rock legen...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco lawyer disbarred for overbilling can't reinvent himself as a real estate agent, a Sacramento ...

INDUSTRIAL OTAY MESA - First Industrial Realty Trust purchased a 205,000-square-foot warehouse at 1855 Dornoch Court from the...

Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Oscar Garza and Kenneth A. Glowacki Jr. - In any Chapter 11 case, it is the goal of the deb...

Forum Column - By Franklin E. Zimring - Whatever else it should have taught us, this spring's prime time tragedy of Terri Schi...

LOS ANGELES - Susan McRae, a veteran Daily Journal reporter, has won Los Angeles Press Club's 2004 Journalist of the Year awar...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place in Long Beach today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Harry T. Shafer. Shafe...