SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. attorney's office acknowledged Monday that the federal grand jury probe of alleged civil rights viola...

LOS ANGELES - The second phase of a trial in which workers are accusing Unocal Corp. of human rights violations in the constru...

Column By Garry Abrams - The state of California just missed a chance to reduce its budget deficit by $9. That's right. By exp...

FAIRFIELD - Solano County Superior Court Judge Harry Kinnicutt is a tall man, who lawyers say presides with a short fuse. He l...

SAN FRANCISCO - The embattled compromise plan to resolve Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s bankruptcy was ripped Monday by a key ...

LOS ANGELES - Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Ethics Commission fined City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa $5,100, the amo...

Forum Column - By Todd J. Wenzel - The San Francisco Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance was adopted in J...

A Fresno jury awarded $2.4 million in compensatory damages last month to the family of a woman who died as a result of alleged...

Venture capitalists have poured $30 million into Saegis Pharmaceuticals Inc., bolstering its efforts to develop new drugs to i...

Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - Here's one for the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction file: A jury in Galveston, Texas, recently acq...

As counsel for Dr. Seuss Enterprises, La Jolla attorney Karl ZoBell works to protect the creations of the beloved children's a...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - As Daily Journal EXTRA scoured the state for holiday reading recommendations, we had to wonder w...

Like a proud parent, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth has guided Powerwave Technologies Inc. as it has grown and matured. T...

Equal parts Zen master, consultant, visionary, taskmaster and best friend, executive coaches, long a staple of corporate Ameri...

Column - ADR Strategy - By Lee Jay Berman - A bright line differentiates client advocacy in mediation from other forms of clie...

After 20 years, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner John Ladner has stepped down from the bench. Ladner retired Nov. 7. Hi...

When the three founders of the Women's Law Center established the organization in 1989, it was the only center dedicated solel...

Motown phenomenon and American music icon Stevie Wonder made a surprise appearance at the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law...

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius last week offered a West Coast twist to what looked to be essentially an East Coast acquisition. ...

The Scene was on the move to Santa Monica on a drizzly Saturday night, looking forward to getting a read on the night's main e...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY CARSON - Grubb & Ellis' Sean O'Donnell represented Aeronet Inc., an Irvine-based airfreight and logisti...

LOS ANGELES - About two dozen young people, dressed in orange jail T-shirts, rallied Friday outside the downtown Los Angeles C...

Although a grand jury decided not to indict him for criminal misconduct, the actions of a San Jose police officer who shot to ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley - Do California courts have personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state seller t...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Steven G. Mehta - Most people underrate the amount of communication that ta...

LOS ANGELES - A man who showed up outside the Artesia home of his former girlfriend, shouted insults and threats and then stab...

LOS ANGELES - On Wednesday, affordable-housing advocates will celebrate the collaboration of two organizations that have helpe...

SAN JOSE - Former Santa Clara County Deputy Public Defender Thomas Spielbauer will stand trial on a misdemeanor charge of misl...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar Court has recommended that one-time civil rights attorney A. Thomas Hunt, who resigned from the ba...

LOS ANGELES - Californians soon will have a say in major administrative and financial decisions by the courts, the courts' pol...