Only a fraction of patients have taken part in a state program to restore health coverage for people who had it revoked, and j...

The state Judicial Council could impose monthy court furloughs to deal with California's spiraling budget crisis. ...

Riverside County Superior Court Judge Rick Thierbach, who once dreamed of playing Major League Baseball, doesn't agonize over ...

In a closely watched trial in U.S. District Court in Riverside, a judge is hearing evidence to help determine what share of th...

Women litigators and other legal observers weigh in on what effect the end of the billable hour could have on women. Their ans...

State Bar President Holly Fujie finds it puzzling and troubling that many female law students today believe they must choose b...

For conservative activists gearing up to fight the confirmation of President Barack Obama's yet-to-be-named U.S. Supreme Court...

In the second of a four-part series on America's mortgage crisis, columnist Martin Berg tracks the Bush administration's legac...

The Treasury Department and IRS have published temporary cost-sharing regulations that set forth a new regime of valuation me...

If we require "judicial empathy," we should require it not only in word, but also in deed, writes Brian J. Goldenfeld. ...

Federal prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss all charges against a film and television producer - 18 months into litigation an...

A recent U.S. Supreme Court case over top scores on a multiple-choice firefighter exam isn't your typical "reverse discriminat...

The San Francisco Bay Area was a bright spot among the world's major legal markets during the first quarter of the year, while...

Well-known sexual harassment attorney Philip Kay launched a vigorous defense of himself and colleague John Dalton from miscond...

A Los Angeles district judge wrongly dismissed a class action against Farmers Group Inc. alleging the insurance giant charged ...

Similarities between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war in Vietnam are remarkable and sobering, write Marjorie Cohn ...

One day after a jury returned a $300 million damages award against him, the defendant in a high-stakes corporate merger fraud ...

The Daily Journal takes a look at the state’s leading women litigators and how they got there. Also in this issue: Could the e...

Victor Jih and Tammy Jih, both California lawyers, won CBS's "The Amazing Race" and the $1 million prize that comes with it. T...

A federal judge has ruled government agents committed no wrongdoing in a decade-old civil rights claim brought by a man who sa...

Despite court rules mandating opennes, actress Sharon Stone was allowed to file a suit in Los Angeles Superior Court under con...

Banks and government officials continue to do the public's business in secret, columnist Martin Berg finds. ...

Ample time for preparation is the most important component to a successful deposition of your foreign client, write Caroline M...

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge warned Monday that California may be on the verge of executing an innocent man, even...

The Justice Department withdrew a controversial report Monday from the waning days of the Bush administration, signaling a maj...

The California Supreme Court dealt a blow to injured workers and their attorneys Monday by limiting their ability to be reimbu...

Advance negotiation of the definition of force majeure is far preferable to sorting out liability issues in the context of leg...

Substituting first-years' discursive essay exam with multiple-choice or true-false questions may work to a student's (and prof...

Firearms manufacturers won a showdown Monday over a 2005 federal law shielding them from litigation, as a divided federal appe...