Column - Trial Strategy - By A. Barry Cappello - Litigators, especially those without a lot of experience, often fail to get t...

Kevin Dunne, chairman of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, is always glad to talk to potential suitors about his 350-lawye...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Fred Nicholas squints into the late September sun as he approaches a large stainless-steel struc...

San Bernardino County has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle claims that its former head prosecutor retaliated against one of hi...

SANTA ANA - James M. Hester didn't want to be roadkill. But as he sprawled across a stretch of asphalt winding north of Santa ...

Steering real estate development projects through the approval process in San Francisco takes no small measure of political sa...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Gerald F. Gerstenfeld - Mediators frequently are asked to resolve disputes ...

Forum Column - By Spencer Overton - Chief Justice William Rehnquist hinted that he might abandon his long-standing support of ...

Forum Column - By Daniel Flaming and Yolanda Arias - An emphasis on bootstraps rather than brainpower has left three-quarters ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An extraordinary collection of interests - including environmentalist, timber and agriculture groups - have re...

LODI - Any judge who's been on the bench for awhile has handled one memorably bizarre matter. But it would be hard to top the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judges Richard McAdams of Santa Cruz and Betty Dawson of Merced have won quick and unanimous confirmation as j...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California will be welcoming two new judges after they were ...

NEWPORT BEACH - Judge Brett London remembers his first big lesson in the axiom "For every action, there is a reaction." It was...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nobody should tell 8-year-old Nicholas H. that the man who houses him, feeds him and clothes him is not his bi...

SAN FRANCISCO - California, the state with the nation's dirtiest air and some of the toughest restrictions on air pollution, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sixteen months after the U.S. Supreme Court made it more difficult for patent owners to go after copycat produ...

Forum Column - By Milton E. Olin Jr. - On Sept. 8, the principal members of the Recording Industry Association of America - AO...

Employment Column - By Robert S. Blumberg - While it is generally accepted that an applicant's résumé will contain a certain a...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Daniel M. Becker - The completion of the sequence of the human genome already has pr...

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has ordered a private judge to explain why he sealed his ruling on whether the Archdiocese of L...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Francisco federal public defender Barry J. Portman has been reappointed to a new four-year term as...

WASHINGTON - State Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, recently nominated to the federal appellate bench by President B...

LOS ANGELES - A school district shouldn't be liable for the emotional distress of the parents of a student molested by one of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - First it was $50 million. Then $25 million. Now $9 million. Punitive damages in a high-profile San Francisco t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A long-time investigator testified Thursday that top prison management repeatedly succumbed to pressure by the...

LOS ANGELES - Two Nazi concentration camp survivors filed suit in Los Angeles Thursday, claiming an international insurance co...

LOS ANGELES - A Westwood man accused of threatening a Los Angeles Times reporter by leaving a dead fish on her car windshield ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors used the cooperation of a colleague Thursday to criminally charge a former partner at Erns...

LOS ANGELES - "Goin' with the flow isn't a defense on the freeway." That's what Commissioner Stanford E. Reichert said one rec...