Employment Column - Employment litigation just got a lot tougher. A specialist provides guidance for defense counsel on how to...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's U.S. attorney during the Reagan administration is ready again to serve at the pleasure of the ...

In summer 1994, a smokestack on a Unocal Corp. oil refinery in San Francisco's East Bay spat a dirty chemical into the air and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named a gang prosecutor to the San Bernardino County Superior Court, one of the...

NORCO - State authorities are investigating a Norco grandmother for posting signs in her front yard protesting a next-door gro...

SAN FRANCISCO - California coastal regulators on Thursday charted a collision course with the U.S. Navy over the state's abili...

LOS ANGELES - David L. Neal, a former Los Angeles lawyer, has been named top U.S. immigration judge, ending speculation over w...

SAN JOSE - One day after ordering reporters out of his courtroom because they refused to sign nondisclosure agreements in orde...

Focus Column - By Patricia M. Lucas and Alex Ricciardulli - In the first of a monthly series of MCLE articles, two superior co...

Forum Column - By Dylan B. Carp - You want to be rough and tough in the courtroom, but be careful. Telling the judge what a je...

Interim Suspensions, Ethics Suspension etc.

An entrepreneur thought he had found the perfect platform to sell his mobile-networking company. But a host of legal concerns ...

Plaintiffs' lawyers enjoyed a sharp uptick last year in the size of securities class action settlements, negotiating an averag...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case have produced something they didn't believe existe...

Focus Column - By Peter C. Meier and Kamon D. Naddaf - A recent decision puts some reason back into California consumer law. ...

The state's Good Samaritan law may not protect a woman from liability who is accused of rendering her friend paraplegic when s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Mayor Art Agnos will take over the city's beleaguered Housing Authority, thanks to a trial court judge'...

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - A constitutional lawyer suggests that we all do what is necessary to keep hope of religio...

California deals increased by 4 percent last year, reaching a total of 2,341, according to FactSet Mergerstat, a Santa Monica-...

SAN FRANCISCO - The government does not appear to be giving up in its quest to prosecute the "Guru of Ganja." ...

SANTA ANA - In an unusually large sanction, a judge has slapped a Long Beach lawyer with a $382,000 fine for filing suit frivo...

WASHINGTON - A public-interest law firm that has spearheaded criticism of judicial education junkets accused the federal judic...

LOS ANGELES - In a second round of settlement notices targeted at college students accused of illegally downloading music, the...

Letter to the Editor - We appreciate the Daily Journal's report on the $55 million verdict against DaimlerChrysler Corporation...

SAN DIEGO - Three candidates for fired U.S. Attorney Carol Lam's job have been interviewed by a screening committee that is pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly six years ago Attorney General Bill Lockyer took on a county government he believed was trying to skirt...

SAN FRANCISCO - Legendary criminal defense lawyer J. Tony Serra has been out of prison barely one month, and he's back fightin...

WASHINGTON - Pressure is mounting in Congress for a new investigation into whether the Justice Department demoted the interim ...

SAN JOSE - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Southern California-based parenting Web site that claimed Google...

The newest internal documents released by Justice Department officials won't resolve the debate over the politics behind the U...