LOS ANGELES - It has been a year since U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian swapped a position as special counsel in the...

Seeing defendants sent to prison for life under the state’s three-strikes law after committing petty crimes, criminal-defense ...

SACRAMENTO - California's judges and lawyers often point out the increasing numbers of self-represented litigants that stream ...

LOS ANGELES - Two seasoned media and entertainment partners in Leopold, Petrich & Smith have set their sights on another f...

FORUM COLUMN - By Debra B. Self - What do you get for your three free hours of mediation? Not much when no one takes it seriou...

FORUM COLUMN - By Nora Quinn - Settlement. The word is pure ambrosia for most litigators, so why are so many clients unhappy? ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Facing mounting opposition from judicial and disciplinary groups, the American Bar Association has reworded pr...

LOS ANGELES - Most young attorneys only dream of the inside of a courtroom. At the outset of his legal career, Phillip A. Bake...

A federal judge has invalidated the patent on a $3 billion drug, concluding that French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis "i...

Bremer Whyte named Jeremy Johnson partner in its Newport Beach office. Johnson focuses his practice on business and real estat...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elizabeth A. White Deck is known as a master of efficiency in overcoming impasses in c...

Determining that a key witness lied to police 22 years ago, a judge on Thursday reversed the murder conviction of a 40-year-ol...

LOS ANGELES - Not many 69-year-olds run five miles a day, but on most days, retired Judge David Perez traverses the hills near...

Two years ago, Baker & Hostetler announced plans to grow the firm's downtown Los Angeles office. Now, it looks like those ...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By John A. Vogt - Your client's workers may look and act like independent contractors, but a recent case s...

FORUM COLUMN - By Areva D. Martin - An education lawyer is not impressed with legislation designed to improve school performan...

WASHINGTON - Idaho Judge N. Randy Smith is a step closer to taking a place on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after the ...

For its new general counsel, embattled Hewlett-Packard has turned to a former federal prosecutor and veteran litigator. ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Scott Wm. Davenport - The 9th Circuit is divided on whether the police violated the Constitution detaining a...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge J. Michael Bollman, who used his characteristically friendly manner to bring disputants in ci...

As part of a routine adjustment, the state's Commission on Judicial Performance has increased the allowable value of gifts tha...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Les Lo Baugh - The LEED Green Building Rating System is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, co...

LOS ANGELES - With the unexpected death of stripper-turned-icon Anna Nicole Smith and continuing litigation a certainty, the $...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego are asking a Court of Appeal to stop a string of civil sex-a...

In a ruling that says public officials can't claim they were just following legal advice when they break the law, the state's ...

Can a group of men who call others of the same religion a disgrace while attacking them be guilty of a hate crime? ...

FOCUS COLUMN -By Gary A. Watt - A patchwork of decisions construing arbitration agreements has made the right to contract unc...

FORUM COLUMN - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Benjamin Davidson - The California Supreme Court is poised to decide whether there ...

The Daily Journal's annual list of top defense verdicts. ...

LOS ANGELES - More change might be afoot for Dallas-based Jenkens & Gilchrist. The firm shuttered its Pasadena and Washing...