WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether people who have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy can exempt ...

Column By Garry Abrams - When the Cold War ended more than a decade ago, the spy novel lay mangled, bleeding and comatose unde...

A large cross displayed on federal parkland in the Mojave Desert National Preserve violates a constitutional provision forbidd...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has yet to appoint a new judicial appointments secretary, but that's not stopping him ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. upstaged opening arguments Monday in the Justice Department's antitrust suit against Oracle Co...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian has many recollections of Ronald Reagan. But one of his most memorable, he...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Trey Ryder - If you're like most lawyers, you know the value of speaking with a prospective ...

A disbarred lawyer with a history of suing businesses for refusing entry to his miniature poodle suffered a rare courtroom def...

State Attorney General Bill Lockyer has weighed in on an ongoing controversy in the expert-witness community. Lockyer has deci...

Responding to booming property development across the Nevada state line, Irvine-based Payne & Fears will open an office in...

In what may be the first time in California, an appellate court has recognized the right to bring negligence and nuisance clai...

The Inner City Law Center, which works to improve living conditions for tenants of slum housing, chose an opulent setting for ...

George Haas thought his life was finally starting to turn around. Haas, 35, requires round-the-clock medical care because of g...

SAN FRANCISCO - The defense attorney for accused cop-killer David Hill has lashed out at U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne F...

LOS ANGELES - Richard McKee never met a secret committee he liked. Which is why McKee, the president of Californians Aware, a ...

Citing continuing expansion of its land use capabilities, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has added William R. Devine ...

SAN DIEGO - An appellate court Friday dealt a setback to a civil suit by six men who were accused of murdering a police office...

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker recently scored five land use lawyers for its Los Angeles headquarters. The group, previ...

Intellectual property partner Kevin Johnson left Fish & Neave's Palo Alto office last month to join Quinn Emanuel Urquhart...

Knobbe Martens Olson and Bear hit the "off" switch in a recent patent litigation filed against one of its clients, San Diego-b...

Equal Justice Works is in the business of creating the next generation of public-interest lawyers. Through its fellowships and...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David Pettit - Can a resident of South Carolina sue an Idaho county for allowing chlorof...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By W. Barry Nixon - The Fair Credit Reporting Act was amended recently in a number of ways by ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Friday recommended death for a Studio City motel operator who strangled four members of a bus...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - Imagine yourself in this situation: As supervisor for a local steel company, you ...

Column - Adviser - By Joel M. Grossman - When lawyers ask for my advice on how to prepare for a mediation, I always tell them ...

SAN FRANCISCO - State Sens. Richard Ackerman and Joe Dunn will receive the Scales of Justice Award from the California Judges ...

LOS ANGELES - State legislators on Friday blasted Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca for shrugging off two-year-old violation...

LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer's campaign against bad nursing homes suffered a setback last week when a San...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Toni Vranjes - Attorney Philip Howard was driving back from a canceled event in Florida to hi...