Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - In a famous experiment during the summer of 1971, social psychologist Philip Zimbardo cr...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Heather N. Mewes - The "doctrine of equivalents" is the last stand for a patentee. I...

LOS ANGELES - A motorist whose failure to stop for stalled traffic caused a pileup that resulted in the death of a Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - State appeal court judges recently plugged a legal loophole through which thousands of potential Proposition 6...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Hollywood is about telling stories: how the crack investigative team catches the television kill...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor has dropped plans to appeal a judge's order granting a new trial to two men convict...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court, in one of the first rulings since a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in March limitin...

SAN BERNARDINO - Lawyers for San Bernardino have moved to close down a controversial city strip club, alleging that some of th...

Corporate partner Scott Stanton is leaving Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich to join Morrison & Foerster's San Diego office...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo filed suit Friday against Fleishman-Hillard Inc., charging that the i...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne Chang said she feels lucky to have roots in Hawaii, but sometimes is ...

LOS ANGELES - An unusually high number of California lawyers - more than 4,600, compared to fewer than 3,000 last year - are i...

WASHINGTON - William G. Myers III, a controversial nominee for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, on Tuesday likely will b...

SAN FRANCISCO - So far, Attorney General Bill Lockyer has avoided some central questions in the litigation over gay marriage: ...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County is challenging the constitutionality of an initiative backed by its prosecutors and public defen...

SANTA ANA - A woman who said her millionaire husband treated her like "a disposable spouse" by divorcing her after a disfiguri...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has chosen a veteran of his political mentor's judicial appointments process to help h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Where does the buck stop? That's the question many lawyers would like answered as a San Francisco federal judg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Donald Rehkopf, one of nation's top lawyers handling military defense cases in the wake of the war on terror, ...

Employment Column - By Lin Meyer - Today there seems to be a pervasive attitude amongst lawyers that everyone is out for thems...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin, Jr. - Cities and counties sometimes attempt to revoke land-use, building or...

Forum Column - By Mary Alexander - Trial lawyers often face criticism - even in the current presidential campaign, for example...

Forum Column - By Vince Imhoff and Claudia Rosenbaum - Leondro Andrade took nine videotapes from Kmart, intended as Christmas ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge abused his discretion when he shortened the time required for a debtor to res...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prospective juror opposed to the death penalty should not be excluded based solely on answers to a questionn...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser's convictions earlier this year on felony conspiracy and oth...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than 100 sex abuse claims against Roman Catholic priests in Northern California, which seek million of do...

LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance on Thursday set Sept. 13 for a formal hearing into a complaint against Lo...

LOS ANGELES - The co-publisher of a legal-affairs newspaper and a deputy public defender will join the State Bar Board of Gove...

LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica judge reversed part of her earlier tentative ruling Thursday, largely denying a bid to keep secre...