A crowd of 300 lawyers, judges, public officials and child advocates gathered recently to honor Judge Ina Levin Gyemant, a ret...

The niece of American music legends George and Ira Gershwin claims that a Los Angeles accountant swindled her out of royalties...

An Orange County Superior Court jury tacked $2.25 million in punitive damages onto a $4.3 million compensatory verdict last mo...

Column - Construction Defects - By Bryan C. Jackson - California's new residential construction defect statute, commonly know ...

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps plans to mark the new year with a changing of the guard: Robert D. Buell will step down ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Nancy M. Brown, who raised eyebrows a few years ago by displaying an artificial marijuana pl...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Raymond J. Tittmann - Hot off the press, the decision in 2,002 Ranch v. Superior Court, ...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - The felony-murder rule is one of the most controversial doctrines in the...

Forum Column - By Brady Sullivan - All sides in the debate in Sacramento about how to solve California's budget crisis recogni...

LOS ANGELES - At least a dozen cases against pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline over its anti-depressant drug Paxil will be ...

Column - Construction Defects - By Bruce A. Edwards - Like the real estate mantra of location, location, location, the key to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney-elect Kamala Harris is considering reaching across the bay to pluck Alameda County prosecuto...

SAN FRANCISCO - Not even the arrest of a state Supreme Court justice for suspected drunken driving could faze Michael Gridley,...

WASHINGTON - The number of death sentences, executions and death-row inmates in the United States all declined this year from ...

LOS ANGELES - Real estate mogul Alan Casden filed a formal complaint Friday with the State Bar charging Los Angeles District A...

SAN FRANCISCO - Larry Sonsini, purged last month from the board of the New York Stock Exchange, is back in a leadership positi...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a substantial shot in the arm for Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's chief creditor, the bankrupt firm's for...

Parents are keeping a close eye on their wallets when they buy stuffed animals, dolls and video games for their kids - and tha...

LOS ANGELES - R. Gary Klausner has positive feelings about his first year on the federal bench. That's hardly a surprise to th...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - From the time she joined her parents on the cannery-worker picket lines in high school to her da...

Column - Technology Review - By Paul Kiesel - The conference room doors opened. In walked two lawyers and one unassuming engin...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY LYNWOOD - Imperial Shopping Center LLC has signed five separate leases totaling $10.4 million for its 425,...

Forum Column - By Marc A. Levin - More than 500,000 Americans use Botox to smooth out facial wrinkles and relieve muscle disor...

Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - The State Bar requires continuing education for elimination of bias in the legal profess...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Anthony J. Oncidi - The state Supreme Court again has parted compa...

LOS ANGELES - It's official: Jerry Rubin, perennial Santa Monica anti-war advocate and local politico, is now Jerry Peace Acti...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday released more documents in the grand jury investigation of sexual abuse ...

SANTA ANA - In what defense attorneys called a significant victory for their case, an Orange County judge Thursday granted a m...

LOS ANGELES - Pop star Michael Jackson was charged Thursday with seven counts of committing a lewd act upon a child under age ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Frantic parents whose toddler daughter got a severe electric shock in the bathtub can't sue over 911 dispatch...