WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court's 2002-03 term will be remembered for the justices' landmark decisions on affirmative acti...

SACRAMENTO - A taxpayers group has sued the state over the tripling of California's vehicle license fee, raising serious quest...

SAN FRANCISCO - With no state budget in place, some of the state's trial courts are unable to pay vendors and contract workers...

Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - In Ferguson v. Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein , 30 Cal.4...

Forum Column - By Jayashri Srikantiah - Rebecca Gordon and Jan Adams are longtime peace activists who live and work in San Fra...

Forum Column - By Robert R. Eberle - There is a saying in America that, "There are only two sure things in life: Death and tax...

LOS ANGELES - Members of the Los Angeles City Attorneys Association have voted overwhelmingly to affiliate with the Service Em...

SAN FRANCISCO - Linda Ekstrom Stanley, the outspoken former bankruptcy trustee in Northern California who monitored the $13 b...

Reporter's Notebook - Environmental Law - By Dennis Pfaff - For anyone who might think the long arm of American law loses its ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is high on hemp. By a 2-1 vote Monday, a three-judge panel struck down a...

LOS ANGELES - Two brothers who were molested decades ago by a San Bernardino priest have agreed to settle their civil suit aga...

Column By Garry Abrams - The U.S. Supreme Court killed Strom Thurmond!? That was my first reaction Friday morning as I scanned...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court tried Monday to put an end to the long-standing debate over whether the state's sta...

SAN JOSE - In a legal battle that pitted freedom of speech against a company's private property rights, a divided California S...

Perhaps the biggest event in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's quest to build its litigation department came in 1998, when ...

A parcel of Koreatown land will become home to 1,500 middle-school students instead of 3,500 parishioners, a judge ruled Tuesd...

A company is accused of providing misleading financial information that resulted in big losses for another, SCI Holdings Inc. ...

Four U.S. companies exposed thousands of hemophiliacs to HIV and hepatitis C in the 1980s by selling them blood-clotting medic...

Irvine attorney Eric P. Lampel doesn't expect sympathy for his client Susan D. Atkins, a prisoner notorious for her participat...

San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew is on track for the scheduled opening of its San Diego office tomorrow. On June...

Daily Journal EXTRA has discovered still more tape recordings of secret interrogations conducted 50 years ago by Sen. Joseph M...

A roast is supposed to make mincemeat out of the person honored. But that's not exactly a tall order when the subject of the g...

Despite emotionally charged testimony about alleged lack of care at a Los Angeles nursing home, a jury found against an 89-yea...

Corinthian Colleges Inc., a Santa Ana-based company that operates a chain of vocational schools, will buy Career Choices Inc. ...

Column - Construction Defects - By Kevin P. Cody - By now, most home builders and contractors are aware that an important new ...

In yet another tech merger announced this month, software company Mercury Interactive Corp. has agreed to buy privately held K...

Call them competitors, trailblazers, maybe even bitches if you're hung up on an image of women that's all sugar and spice. Wh...

Last year's merger with San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen wasn't quite enough for Jay Zimmerman, the aggre...

When the American Jewish Committee held its 24th Annual Learned Hand Award Dinner a month ago, The Scene expected to encounter...

Real estate lawyer Craig Wood recently packed up and made the move to Southern California in order to be closer to his family....