SAN FRANCISCO - Former McKesson executive Richard Hawkins took the stand in his own defense this week to flatly deny any invo...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Rees Lloyd has a problem with the inspector general for Los Angeles County's Department of Children and...

SANTA ANA - A judge Thursday allowed two controversial DNA tests to be presented at the trial of accused child killer Alejandr...

SAN FRANCISCO - James Baker, a nationally recognized employee compensation and benefits lawyer, has left Orrick, Herrington &...

SAN FRANCISCO - A wide-ranging constitutional amendment to overhaul California's court system would expand the chief justice'...

JOSHUA TREE - Bryan F. Foster worked hard to become a lawyer and a Superior Court judge, after hearing stories about his fathe...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento County Superior Court Commissioner Christopher Longaker has a soft spot for kids. He said he believes...

SAN FRANCISCO - Few people have kind words these days about the humble coupon. In the U.S. Senate, lawmakers used words like "...

LOS ANGELES - French defendants in the Credit Lyonnais scandal claimed victory late Wednesday after a federal judge approved a...

LOS ANGELES - It was probably only a matter of time until someone filed a lawsuit in U.S. court over the Asian tsunami disaste...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - So Fez Inc. purchased a 5,614-square-foot industrial building at 8580 Avenida de la Fuente from South ...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Arthur Cook - On Dec. 13, 2004, the Supreme Court filed its decision in Cooper Industrie...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - If one were to rank state government institutions on the basis of their "transparency" - how ...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Being a parent in our fast-paced and complex society isn't easy. We find ourselves ra...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Friday for Milton Hadley, a longtime Baldwin Park attorney. Hadley, who helped put his...

LOS ANGELES - Services for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge C. Robert Simpson will take place Saturday in La Habra. Simpson, ...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Friday for retired Los Angeles trial lawyer Richard Brown Coyle. Coyle, a longtime civ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed 11 new judges Wednesday to trial courts in Sacramento, Fresno, Los Angele...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marc Fagel, a veteran attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission, will head the San Francisco office's...

Daily Journal Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court granted review Wednesday in a case in which underag...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Trial lawyers these days must feel like they're living in a house of horrors. Behind every door, th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The "C" word is so controversial that the local plaintiffs lawyers who wrangled more than a billion dollars wo...

SAN BERNARDINO - Gerald Farber, a longtime chief deputy public defender for the county, has been tapped to fill the office's t...

LOS ANGELES - You may never have purchased that bastion of textbook journalism, The National Enquirer, but standing in line at...

LOS ANGELES - State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has reached a settlement "in principle" with French bank Credit Lyon...

SACRAMENTO - First Amendment advocates, lobbyists and others in recent weeks have begun openly challenging the California judi...

INDUSTRIAL CHULA VISTA - Sweetwater Union High School District purchased the 389,000-square-foot Chula Vista Commerce Center a...

Focus Column - Litigation - By James W. Denison - Picture this: You've just inherited a case from some other counsel, and you ...

Forum Column - By Deborah Wald - On Jan. 1, the California Domestic Rights and Responsibilities Act of 2003 went into effect. ...

FULLERTON - Western State University College of Law has received provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association,...