Forum Column - By Judy Jernudd - It hasn't happened yet, but here's how it might go. "Hello, John. You don't mind me calling y...

Forum Column - By Daniel H. Fiske - National labor laws provide a two-tiered system in which industrial workers are eligible f...

QUESTION 4 Is Ann entitled to a renewal of a lease of a store in Lori's shopping center? Page XX REAL PROPERTY Lori owns a sm...

QUESTION 5 How should the court rule on the Department's motion to dismiss on the ground of American Car Association's lack o...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Marc J. Pernick and Sunil R. Kulkarni - Consider this hypothetical: Company A quickl...

Evidence from a bank robbery creates complications. Page XX QUESTION 1 EVIDENCE LAW A bank was robbed at 1 p.m. by a man who ...

SAN FRANCISCO - State regulators have jurisdiction over public utilities' parent holding companies, a San Francisco appeal cou...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has ordered singer Barbra Streisand to pay $177,000 in attorney fees after her privacy lawsu...

LOS ANGELES - Surrounded by balloons and teddy bears, 28 Los Angeles County foster kids got permanent homes Friday through a c...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge presiding over San Francisco's multimillion-dollar fraud claims against Tutor-Saliba Corp. sai...

SACRAMENTO - Barry Melton, the Yolo County public defender and former guitar player for the Vietnam-War-era rock band Country ...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Eron Ben-Yehuda - Beauty is fleeting. But a cosmetologist can create the perfect balance of h...

LOS ANGELES - Macy's West Inc. agreed Friday to pay $1.6 million in civil penalties and costs to four counties and the city of...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - When I first started covering California courts some 20-odd years ago, I would oc...

Video games have come a long way from Pong, one of the first home video games to introduce the world to the joys of a joystick...

What rights do Herb, Wendy and Ann each have in the house in Montana, the car and Ann's $15,000 bank account? Page XX QUESTIO...

Employment Column - By Michael D. Karpeles - One of the fastest-growing areas of employment litigation involves claims for ret...

Forum Column - By Wendy Murphy - Media around the country should be commended for their good work showcasing examples of wrong...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Jill Faulkner McNeal and James M. Harris - Attorneys take advantage of the right to oral arg...

LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reinstated a civil rights lawsuit against several Adelanto cit...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Pasadena attorney Robert Paul Pratte Sr., whose longtime corporate clients include...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defense attorneys will seek to dismiss 17 espionage-related charges against Airman Ahmad I. Al Halabi today, c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chance suffered the loss of three litigation partners this week, marking the first defections from th...

Notebook - By Donna Domino - SAN FRANCISCO - Ever wanted to vent your spleen about the cutthroat, unethical opposing counsel y...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert M. Letteau drew a public admonishment Thursday for hostile and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clad in purple T-shirts, about 50 San Francisco Superior Court employees gathered outside the McAllister Stree...

LOS ANGELES - The 2001 murder of Asian-American teenager Kenneth Chiu by a deaf, white-supremacist neighbor was shocking, brea...

SANTA ANA - As one defense attorney hammered at the testimony of the woman at the center of a high-profile gang-rape trial Thu...

LOS ANGELES - Stephen Czuleger appreciates the difference between being a civil court judge and a criminal court judge. He's b...

LOS ANGELES - Public-interest advocate Rebecca Isaacs will replace Clemente Franco as executive director of the Inner City Law...