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...

WASHINGTON - A controversial proposal to allow the citation of so-called "unpublished" opinions in all federal courts was put ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Roger T. Benitez for a District Court judgeship for the San Diego-based Sou...

LOS ANGELES - Immigrants' rights lawyers said Thursday newly proposed modifications to the USA Patriot Act would restore civil...