Former train engineer Bernard Knapp is the new legal adviser to the Commission on Judicial Performance. It's a job "couldn't s...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Thursday agreed to let plaintiffs in a class action against Blue Cross obtain information ab...

On March 28, 2002, Thomas McMahon was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Less than two months later, he was dead. ...

Employment Column - D. Gregory Valenza and Matthew J. Norfleet - Employers who want to implement alternatives to the tradition...

LOS ANGELES - Students at the UC Davis School of Law will hold their annual King Hall Prison Law Symposium on Saturday, focusi...

LOS ANGELES - The widow and children of a man who was killed after being run over by a backhoe are not entitled to damages fro...

Leonard S. Levy is not a guy you'd want sitting across from you at a poker table. It's the last hour of a recent half-day med...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the remaining copyright infringement cases against Napster's financial backers was resolved last week a...

Forum Column - Julia Harumi Mass, Ranjana Natarajan and Cecillia D. Wang - According to the ACLU, a masterpiece of bureaucrati...

Focus Column - Kimberly A. Kralowec - The pre-certification rights of class representatives are significant but not unlimited....

SAN JOSE - California cities and counties cannot hire outside law firms to pursue public-nuisance claims on a contingency basi...

LOS ANGELES - Stergios "Terry" Theologides is no stranger to the spotlight. For the past decade, he has vigorously defended hi...

Disclosing a family's dirty laundry in court can't be grounds for a new lawsuit, the California Supreme Court held Thursday in...

The United States patent system is the envy of the world. But we must work to keep it that way to remain globally competitive....

Based on activity afoot in Congress, as well as federal circuit court rulings and increased U.S. Supreme Court activity, sever...

Intellectual property is a driving engine of today's economy. But intellectual property rights are only as strong as the means...

"One good idea. Just one good idea ..." After repeated success stories from the likes of Google and YouTube, and even as far b...

There are a number of issues patent holders should - but often do not - consider in sufficient depth before embarking on a pat...

The Daily Journal pulls together a hit parade of practitioners, professors and regulators to examine key intellectual property...

WASHINGTON - San Diego was one of six cities recognized by the National Association of Realtors and the United States Conferen...

Former deputy public defenders Susanne Cho, left, Ken Gregory, Paul Sukhram, Greg Johnson and Melanie Roe outside a courthouse...

On Jan. 9, the United States Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in MedImmune Inc. v. Genentech Inc., 12...

Grokster itself may be gone, but two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case involving the file-sharing ...

Never before has copyright law been more important or controversial. Hundreds of millions of dollars in value stand to be tran...

LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs' lawyers in a class action against Blue Cross are demanding the health care provider disclose informa...

SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Contra Costa County judge known for his stern demeanor and his mentoring of young attorneys died Mar...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge Wednesday swept aside defense pleas to ignore an appellate court ruling and sentenced a ...

SANTA ANA - A $4.9 million verdict against Orange County and two of its social workers for keeping a mother and her daughters ...

LOS ANGELES - Imagine fighting cancer, then having to fight a collections agency over unpaid medical bills you thought were co...

Forum Column - By Michael D. Antonovich - Reform of mental health laws is critical to solving the homeless problem. A Los Ang...