WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let California death-row inmate Kevin Cooper continue trying to prove his innoce...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin Lager on Monday denied a request from the Roman Catholic Church's insure...

SAN FRANCISCO - Watching from 3,000 miles away, each side of the gay marriage debate in California looked for public opinion t...

Column By Garry Abrams - Despite its previous rulings limiting the scope of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the U.S. Supr...

LOS ANGELES - The judge in the Winnie the Pooh royalties case signaled Monday that he will fight an effort to disqualify him f...

SACRAMENTO - While the state's legislative analyst praised Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal for the judiciary Mond...

LOS ANGELES - In another era, this classic noir aficionado might have slipped silently into the Torrance Courthouse dressed in...

SAN DIEGO - Pepperoni and onions, please, but hold the electricity. That's the message customers are delivering to dozens of P...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Barry W. Lee, Robert A. Zeavin and Brian T. Hafter - In this economic climate and in the cur...

Los Angeles and New York litigator Sandford Litvack joined Washington, D.C.-based Hogan & Hartson on May 3, citing a need ...

Both sides vow a courtroom battle in CTB Film Co.'s lawsuit against action star Michael Biehn. The studio claims Biehn, who ha...

Hot Wheels may be small, but they pull in big bucks. The tiny replica cars and have been filling toy boxes since the 1960s and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Newdow took on the Pledge of Allegiance because he didn't want public schools indoctrinating his daugh...

Larry Engel was faced with two choices in the chaotic days following Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's dissolution last year: ...

SAN FRANCISCO - School integration plans in California suffered a major setback two years ago when an appellate court ruled th...

LOS ANGELES - A civil rights activist from the 1960s, Percy Clark enjoys borrowing the oratorical styles of his heroes, Martin...

Riverside-based Best, Best & Krieger recently opened its Bay Area outpost with just one attorney and one staff member. But...

Forum Column - By G. Michelle Ferreira - What does "clear and convincing" actually mean? Perhaps "clear and convincing" is so ...

The dissolution of Aon Corp.'s six-lawyer San Francisco litigation office is complete, with two lawyers heading to Nossaman, G...

Partner Greg Lemmer left Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Menlo Park office last month to join Pillsbury Winthrop in Palo ...

Orange County homeowners gunning for the rabbits that eat their gardens have a new ally - state Attorney General Bill Lockyer....

International finance attorney William M. Burke, who worked at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton from 1967 to 1986, has ...

Forum Column - By Paul Von Blum - Today, civil rights advocates, journalists, educators and many others will pause to commemor...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Donald Searles - Years after first confronting the nebulous world of Internet jurisdiction, cou...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Separate is not equal. It was 50 years ago today that the U.S. Supreme Court told the nation its...

LOS ANGELES - A "grateful" Cambodian man who had been detained after serving a sentence for car theft has been released from j...

SAN JOSE - A Taiwanese company, ordered to pay more than $116 million for the wrongful death of three children who choked on i...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Judge Thomas V. Nuss will make a public ruling on whether the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese mus...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei is an avid cyclist and wind surfer, but he insists he's no "wild an...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Manuel Real is well aware that his landmark 1970 decision desegregating Pasadena public scho...