SAN FRANCISCO - Court officials and court reporters have hammered out an agreement to expand the use of electronic reporting ...

INDUSTRIAL MILPITAS - India Community Center purchased a 39,083-square-foot research-and-development building at 525-535 Los C...

LOS ANGELES - The family of a 13-year-old boy killed by a Los Angeles police officer has retained the renowned Cochran Firm fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups filed a beefed-up federal lawsuit Thursday in San Francisco challenging the Bush adminis...

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - In the wake of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 63 years ...

Focus Column - Health Care and Hospital Law - By Gary S. Pancer and Sheryl Horwitz - In a victory for regional centers created...

Forum Column - By Charles B. Parselle - Gresham's Law states that bad money drives out good. The same principle can be applied...

RIVERSIDE - Services will take place today for R. Michael Harding, a longtime Riverside family law attorney who died of a hea...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former McKesson executive Richard Hawkins took the stand in his own defense this week to flatly deny any invo...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Rees Lloyd has a problem with the inspector general for Los Angeles County's Department of Children and...

SANTA ANA - A judge Thursday allowed two controversial DNA tests to be presented at the trial of accused child killer Alejandr...

SAN FRANCISCO - James Baker, a nationally recognized employee compensation and benefits lawyer, has left Orrick, Herrington &...

SAN FRANCISCO - A wide-ranging constitutional amendment to overhaul California's court system would expand the chief justice'...

JOSHUA TREE - Bryan F. Foster worked hard to become a lawyer and a Superior Court judge, after hearing stories about his fathe...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento County Superior Court Commissioner Christopher Longaker has a soft spot for kids. He said he believes...

SAN FRANCISCO - Few people have kind words these days about the humble coupon. In the U.S. Senate, lawmakers used words like "...

LOS ANGELES - French defendants in the Credit Lyonnais scandal claimed victory late Wednesday after a federal judge approved a...

LOS ANGELES - It was probably only a matter of time until someone filed a lawsuit in U.S. court over the Asian tsunami disaste...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - So Fez Inc. purchased a 5,614-square-foot industrial building at 8580 Avenida de la Fuente from South ...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Arthur Cook - On Dec. 13, 2004, the Supreme Court filed its decision in Cooper Industrie...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - If one were to rank state government institutions on the basis of their "transparency" - how ...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Being a parent in our fast-paced and complex society isn't easy. We find ourselves ra...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Friday for Milton Hadley, a longtime Baldwin Park attorney. Hadley, who helped put his...

LOS ANGELES - Services for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge C. Robert Simpson will take place Saturday in La Habra. Simpson, ...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Friday for retired Los Angeles trial lawyer Richard Brown Coyle. Coyle, a longtime civ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed 11 new judges Wednesday to trial courts in Sacramento, Fresno, Los Angele...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marc Fagel, a veteran attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission, will head the San Francisco office's...

Daily Journal Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court granted review Wednesday in a case in which underag...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Trial lawyers these days must feel like they're living in a house of horrors. Behind every door, th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The "C" word is so controversial that the local plaintiffs lawyers who wrangled more than a billion dollars wo...