SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer who worked as coverage counsel for Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. for 13 years can't turn around and hi...

Column - Law Practice Management - By Trey Ryder - In these days of electronic communication, lawyers often overlook one of th...

New York's Proskauer Rose has tapped Michael Woronoff to build up the firm's West Coast corporate and securities practice. Wor...

Lerach Coughlin Stoia & Robbins has opened in New York and Boca Raton, Fla., a move the partners predicted when they annou...

After eight months of discussions, Newport Beach-based HirsonWexlerPerl has agreed to merge with New York's Fragomen, Del Rey,...

After a long trip through the courts, one man's racial-harassment lawsuit against Amtrak finally may have ended. A federal jur...

Century City litigator Brian Davidoff recently negotiated a $45 million insurance settlement for furnace contractor J.T. Thorp...

Washington, D.C.'s Hogan & Hartson has hired intellectual property lawyer Troy Schmelzer, who is joining the firm as partn...

Tyler Chase Harper wore a T-shirt to his San Diego-area school that read, "Homosexuality is shameful." The 16-year-old Christi...

Los Angeles-based health law firm Hooper, Lundy & Bookman opened its first office in San Diego on June 7 with Cary Miller,...

More allegations of sexual harassment and spying have surfaced against HootWinc, the franchisee of 17 Hooters restaurants oper...

Focus Column - Consumer Law - By Jan T. Chilton and William L. Stern - Fifteen years ago, a junior high school teacher named D...

Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - The Memorial Day weekend papers said it all: Iraqis finally being released after mont...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - A study released this week by the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Univers...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Parents comes in all shapes and sizes. There are those who are dedicated to the welfare of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Chevron USA isn't responsible for burns a worker suffered when a steam pipe burst at a Richmond laboratory bec...

LOS ANGELES - A San Bernardino Superior Court judge Friday denied an attorney's attempt to seek punitive damages in a Ford rol...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Santa Ana awarded $29 million in punitive damages Friday to a German film and television distr...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - It's the simplest, easiest concept: Help the poor and the lost - love thy neighbor. But the exec...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco ordinance that requires landlords to pay tenants 5 percent interest on their security deposits...

LOS ANGELES - A victims' advocacy group has launched a letter-writing campaign to push for public release of Roman Catholic ch...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - That was some spat last week between the two polar opposites on the 9th U.S. Circ...

LOS ANGELES - A divided state appeals court has held that it is not cruel and unusual punishment to jail a homeless Vietnam ve...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, the federal agency charged with protecting employees from workp...

LONG BEACH - Stephen Otto Reitz beat and stabbed his married girlfriend to death during a secret weekend getaway to a Catalina...

SANTA ANA - A man charged with felony assault for spitting on a judge saw those charges dropped Friday. David Will Chey of Irv...

LOS ANGELES - What the heck is the jury doing? That's the essence of motions filed in federal court in recent weeks by attorne...

WASHINGTON - A proposal designed to give the military's top uniformed lawyers independence from the politically appointed gene...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was cases like this that brought Rose Bird down. Death row inmate Duane Holloway's appellate journey traver...

Focus Column - Healthcare - By Kristie M. Mackey - In California, the mentally ill may be held for treatment for a limited per...