Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - One family-law axiom is that, if a perso...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Recent events have made clear that "Operation Iraqi Freedom" has opened a Pandora's box of t...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Monday ordered a subsidiary of Canadian Investment Bank Corp. to pay $52 million to three inv...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Los Angeles college student to six months of electronic monitoring and fiv...

LOS ANGELES - Spouses do not have an unlimited right to discovery in post-divorce proceedings, an appeals court ruled Friday i...

LOS ANGELES - Citing their extraordinary work in warning school kids of the dangers of Internet piracy, a federal judge Monday...

RIVERSIDE - Federal prosecutors have dropped charges in a Riverside drug case after a judge ruled that a sheriff's detective v...

SAN FRANCISCO - The trial of a man charged with burglarizing a San Francisco judge's home drew to a testy close Monday. Prosec...

ANAHEIM - Lawyers meeting during the State Bar annual convention over the weekend came out strongly against the so-called "rac...

Column By Garry Abrams - Michael Latin and Eleanor Hunter, the Los Angeles prosecutors of longtime Symbionese Liberation Army ...

Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - As the people of California labor toward a criminal trial of Alex Fagan Jr. - the ...

LOS ANGELES - In the latest twist in a long-running Los Angeles murder case, a federal appeals court Monday voted 2-1 to give ...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside Superior Court jury set legal precedent late Monday by finding a Mead Valley woman guilty of second-de...

SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly Judiciary Committee approved amendments Monday to a bill revising the state's unfair competiti...

WASHINGTON - After an historic four-hour argument Monday, the Supreme Court appeared sharply divided on whether the sweeping M...

A single mother of five took a night job at Federal Express Corp. to build a career and stability for herself. But Sandra Smit...

Defense attorneys are concerned about a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows treble damages in whistle-blower lawsuits...

Column - Corporate Law - By Dana Welch - At some point during an internal investigation into corporate wrongdoing, the Securit...

For the second time in six years, the Kay-Bee Toys chain has been slapped with an injunction for allegedly deceptive advertisi...

San Diego's Gordon & Rees has hired three new lawyers in its Newport Beach office. Partners Steve Waimey and Eduardo Bolt ...

Venture Law Group, the Silicon Valley corporate boutique that saw its fortunes rise and fall with the dot-com boom, is being a...

A Beverly Hills psychiatrist was not defamed when a prominent lawyer called her "Looney Tunes" and "mentally unbalanced" on Co...

You like potato and I like potahto. Let's call the whole thing off. If it were only that easy. Couples calling it quits are u...

LOS ANGELES - Of the 40 cases slated for any given day in downtown Los Angeles' Division 20U, one might involve a graffiti spr...

Kelly Crabb has negotiated entertainment deals for big-name musicians like Paul McCartney and Dave Matthews and for the produc...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - After a marriage falls apart, there are plenty of mediators offering their services, ready to me...

Divorce lawyers specializing in collaborative law tout their practice as a cheaper, faster and less combative alternative to l...

A San Francisco couple, together for 27 years, has been forced to spend the last eight months apart because of a job. Daniel K...

Column - Courtroom Etiquette - By Douglas G. Carnahan - New lawyers need to know the rule against hearsay and what the grounds...

California law firms continue to expand into China. Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Morrison & Foerster are the ...