The curtain fell on a battle between two former shareholders and Costa Mesa-based Tickets.com last month when an Orange County...

By Joel Rosenblatt Intellectual-property partner Albert Halluin may take Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati one step closer...

Focus Column - Juries - By Laurie L. Levenson - Jurors should be seen, but not heard - except in their official communications...

Focus Column - Juvenile Law - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - At 3, Linda came under the jurisdiction of Dependency Court to protect...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - When it comes to determining whether a divorced parent can relocate with minor children, C...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Draeger Martinez - Small companies that dream big hope one day to take on the Microsofts and ...

SACRAMENTO - A lawmaker has dropped a bill that would have allowed lawyers to cite unpublished cases in their court briefs, op...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Friday slashed a multimillion-dollar legal-malpractice award to $500,000 for maverick Beve...

SANTA CLARA - As the defense opens its case today in the trial of Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser, the ...

LOS ANGELES - Double murder charges were ordered dropped Friday against Michael Frank Goodwin, who Orange County prosecutors c...

SACRAMENTO - Pretty much from the very beginning of his legal career, Sacramento Superior Court Judge James P. Henke wanted to...

SAN FRANCISCO - The impact of unprecedented cuts in court budgets took on a human face Friday as abused children and elderly w...

Column - By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - When I used to interview judges for judicial profiles, I liked to ask: What do ...

CORONA - A defendant facing a tough courtroom fight to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison would want a high-powered...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis J. Herrera, defending same-sex unions to the state Supreme Court, wrote Thu...

Forum Column - By Lilly Spitz - This Sunday, one million women, men and young people from across the country and around the wo...

Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - The long and complicated history of campaign finance reform has taken a bizarre twist in thi...

Focus Column - Probate Law - By Jeffrey M. Loeb and Adam F. Streisand - On Jan. 1, 2005, the suspect was pulled over in Any Ci...

Employment Column - By Marcia B. Newell - You've found the ideal candidate: smart, educated, credentialed, with fantastic subj...

Notebook - By John Roemer - SAN FRANCISCO - Dan Hamburg and Wal-Mart seemed destined to clash. Hamburg is a former Democratic ...

LOS ANGELES - Services for attorney and activist Selma Mikels Lofgren will take place today. Lofgren died March 24 on vacation...

SACRAMENTO - An influential state lawmaker is threatening to seek contempt sanctions against at least five major energy compan...

LOS ANGELES - The grand jury indictment returned against Michael Jackson this week normally would have opened a window on the ...

LOS ANGELES - No layoffs are expected when officials close three courthouses, in Culver City, Monrovia and South Gate, and shu...

SAN FRANCISCO - After putting San Francisco attorney Raul Aguilar through a grueling two-day contempt hearing this week becaus...

LOS ANGELES - Three male writers on the television comedy "Friends" treated their assistant, Amaani Lyle, "like one of the guy...

LOS ANGELES - When 17-year-old Deborah L. Christian attended her first class at UCLA, she was the only student from her Inglew...

WASHINGTON - This weekend's NFL draft will be without two marquee prospects after the Supreme Court on Thursday twice denied a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing a groundbreaking federal appellate decision, a San Jose federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Santa Cruz...

Forum Column - By Robert S. Thompson - Given the manner in which the state appellate courts have administered the present regi...