Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. appears to be turning over a new leaf. The trendy fashion magnet for teens and y...

Baker & McKenzie's San Diego office continued its aggressive growth in January with the acquisition of a five-attorney gro...

RIVERSIDE - A mother of four and one-time housewife, Linda Roberts-Ross, abruptly switched gears and became a medical-malpract...

SAN FRANCISCO - The year was 1983, and John Broadhurst and Douglas Hammer were pretty sure they were onto something. The attor...

From Spider-Man's New York hometown to the mythical land of Middle Earth, modern entertainment has the power to take audiences...

A movie character, dressed in head-to-toe Armani and flashing a gold watch by the same name, jumps into a shiny new Porsche an...

Medical-marijuana advocates in Berkeley slapped the California Highway Patrol with a lawsuit in February, accusing law enforce...

Although coming to her clients' rescue after they clash with the law is a strong suit for Los Angeles public-policy attorney C...

Substitute teacher Fleming Gray lost his job at a Los Angeles County middle school after he refused to let one of his students...

When he's not in his Pasadena law office, Dan Stormer is gliding down the 6,000-foot slope of Mountain High Resort in the Ange...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Family lawyers are often perplexed by in...

Forum Column - By Michael J. Collins - The conference I attended the weekend of Feb. 25 was a gathering of attorneys hoping fo...

Letter to the Editor - I was appalled to read your one-sided view of Judge Peter Lichtman ("Bright Star on L.A. Superior Court...

Forum Column - By Bruce Ackerman and John Ackerman - Although the world has hardly noticed, Mexico is confronting the first gr...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - At the same time that real-life violence confronts thousands of American troops in Iraq on a ...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Like the kid at the arcade who continuously pumps quarters into a video game for another chance ...

WASHINGTON - The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is asking Congress for emergency funding to pay for additional burde...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three flight attendant rejects will get their day in San Francisco federal court to argue that American Airlin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A repeat offender serving a 26-year prison sentence for lying on a driver's license application will get a cha...

LOS ANGELES - It's not the DNA of the sperm that counts for paternity; it's the method of delivery. A state appellate court in...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a $775,000 jury verdict for defamation against two corpora...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles has rejected an Eritrean woman's claims that she was held as a domestic slave by a...

INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - International Filing Co. signed a three-year, $1.3 million lease extension for a 70,020-square-foot indu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Days before the first Northern California clergy sex abuse cases go to trial, a judge Thursday ordered parties...

Column - Employment Law - By David H. Raizman, partner and Kaye E. Chaffee, associate - California's long-standing public poli...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael Paul Thomas - The purpose of the law of summary judgment is to provide courts with a me...

Forum Column - By Andrew J. Guilford - It was a dark stormy night as attorney Lynn E. Air pounded out her appellate brief. In ...

LOS ANGELES - Fighting to portray his client as a distraught husband, Robert Blake's attorney on Thursday played a 911 call of...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and Mayor James Hahn are expected to announce today that they can fund an additio...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer, following in the footsteps of environmental groups, sued Wednesday to block a c...