After spending 11/2 years at the attorney general's office in Los Angeles, Kate Kenealy says the stellar reputation of litigat...

An African-American shopper says she's speaking out against retail discrimination to prevent it from taking others by surprise...

EXTRA Closer Column - LAW FIRM MANAGEMENT - By Robert W. Cullen - Whether a corporate client hires a lawyer for litigation or ...

Sid Israels, a longtime Central Valley transactional and real estate attorney, has joined Oakland's Wendel, Rosen, Black &...

More than a year after his death, millionaire Stanley Yager's family found themselves in a courtroom brawl over two wills and ...

INDUSTRIAL SANTA FE SPRINGS - L.A.R.D. Investments LP purchased a 106,993-square-foot industrial building located at 13635 Fr...

Forum Column - By Mark Ridley-Thomas - Congratulations to new homeowners in this New Year. It is truly a triumph that homeowne...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert P. Andris - At the end of the liability phase in most patent-infringement tri...

Forum Column - By James D. Nguyen - This month, we celebrate the one-year anniversary of Janet Jackson's infamous breast-beari...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council approved a $450,000 settlement with a gay LAPD officer who claims he was harassed a...

EXTRA Feature - By Eron Ben-Yehuda - In many ways, Michael Tyus is the worst nightmare for Merck & Co. The pharmaceutical ...

WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association is trying to make it easier for judges and judicial candidates to know what they can...

SAN FRANCISCO - The people who crowd the court of Contra Costa County Superior Court Commissioner Lowell Richards tell tales ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors say former McKesson Corp. executive Richard Hawkins took part in a scheme to inflate sale...

LOS ANGELES - In a rare move, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge has freed a man facing capital charges for gunning d...

LOS ANGELES - Friends and colleagues know him as the master storyteller who keeps them laughing. The chocolate lovers who work...

LOS ANGELES - Victims of the deadly commuter train disaster last week could have a hard time holding Metrolink or surrounding ...

LOS ANGELES - In 1930, Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted presented officials with a map showing a green Los Angeles ...

INDUSTRIAL CARLSBAD - THQ Inc. signed a five-year, $629,100 lease for 9,412 square feet of research-and-development space in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a fleeing suspect whose reckless driving kills a bystander c...

SAN JOSE - The defense attorney in the politically charged manslaughter proceedings against a state drug agent who shot to de...

Letter to the Editor - Your article " Prosecutors' Broad Immunity Shield Protects Former DA" (Jan. 18, Daily Journal) "Hallina...

Forum Column - By Reed Brody - The conviction this month of Spc. Charles Graner for atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib prison ...

Employment Column - By James J. McDonald Jr. and Sharon Ongerth - Suppose a car salesman sexually assaults a young woman while...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Peter M. Walzer - The year 2005 is well under way, happily for some and not so happily for othe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury hit a commercial mortgage company with $33 million in punitive damages Wednesday, saying...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John D. Harris, seeking to preserve his "impeccable reputation," ins...

LOS ANGELES - Southwestern University School of Law has tapped Bryant G. Garth, the former director of the American Bar Found...

LOS ANGELES - In an unusual move, District Attorney Steve Cooley has targeted the man accused of causing the nation's deadlie...

SAN FRANCISCO - A split federal appeals panel ordered a new trial Thursday for a convicted armed robber whose lawyer failed t...