SAN FRANCISCO - In a reversal of fortune for Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, the firm has scored a $975 million settlement tha...

Forum Column - By Myron Dean Quon - During the month of June, people in California have celebrated lesbian, gay, bisexual and ...

LOS ANGELES - Family, friends and co-workers are mourning the loss of Enid Davis, a beloved longtime Daily Journal employee wh...

LOS ANGELES - Ernest A. Lopez would like to think that he was a fair and compassionate jurist to those who appeared before him...

RIVERSIDE - A Corona woman who left an infant in her van for several hours on a sweltering summer day was sentenced Tuesday to...

Focus Colum - By Greg Short - Whether negotiating an information-technology outsourcing contract or a business-process outsour...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yet another legal scholar is heralding the demise of copyright law as we know it. And if there's anything to t...

RIVERSIDE - Accused murderer Robert Lee Williams has managed to delay his trial for seven years, burning through four lawyers ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A defining moment for Associate Justice Maria P. Rivera of the 1st District Court of Appeal came at the Broadw...

LOS ANGELES - South Korean citizen Je Ho Lim, frustrated in his attempts to purchase the "Golf.TV" domain name from California...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Monday approved a Proposition 65 settlement with the maker of valves used in water pipe...

LOS ANGELES - A Monterey Park attorney faces trial on charges he tried to extort money from a San Gabriel businessman. At the...

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, facing a second set of misconduct...

SAN FRANCISCO - Vowing to restore pride to the California legal profession by the end of 2003, James E. Herman of Santa Barbar...

WASHINGTON - In the second decision in two weeks that could reduce the number of executions in this country, the U.S. Supreme ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has dismissed criminal charges against seven Iranian immigrants accused of soliciting money for ...

Column by Garry Abrams - Pint-size, jug-eared Texas billionaire Ross Perot could become the Great Satan - or at least the Mart...

Focus Column - By Alison P. Adema - The extraterritorial application of a statute involves the regulation of conduct beyond U....

SAN DIEGO - Dog hairs and carpet fibers found in David A. Westerfield's motor home and his Sabre Springs house link the 50-yea...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Montgomery, co-chairman of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's 56-lawyer business and technology practice i...

SANTA ANA - Though Orange County Superior Court Judge Nancy Wieben Stock has been on the bench for more than 12 years, her end...

NEWPORT BEACH - After eight years of practicing as an in-house attorney at medical companies, Robert C. Funsten has returned t...

Forum Column - By Mark Schlosberg - On June 9, following a 17-year legal battle to obtain information under the Freedom of Inf...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court Monday upheld the right of employers to consider age when deciding which benefits to g...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Monday ordered Genentech Inc. to pay $200 million in punitive damages to the City of Hope - f...

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - You might have read recently about the feng shui fiasco in Sausalito, where residents h...

Dicta Column - By Sharon Berman - Lawyers can learn valuable business development lessons from their marketing failures as wel...

Forum Column - By Cyrus S. Nownejad - The U.S. Supreme Court's majority ruling in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, wh...

CenterRun Inc. secured $12 million in its second round of funding. The deal was announced June 11. Crosslink Capital led the r...

Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley and Duane Morris have announced that they have elevated lawyers to partner status. At San Jo...