TEARS AND LAUGHTER: Last Friday afternoon, there were some tears and funny tales, but most of all there were memories of endea...

FORUM A subpoena comes to a newspaper like a rock through the front window. Page 6. By Tim Crews A subpoena comes to a newspap...

Corporate technology attorney Donald E. Karl has joined Seattle-based Perkins Coie as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles Inte...

It was a visit that almost didn't happen. When a Daily Journal reporter asked the county probation department for permission t...

SAN DIEGO - A former communications officer for presidents Bush and Clinton is being held on charges that he attempted to have...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, who has been on sick leave from his seat in Citrus Court for much of the p...

IRVINE - An attorney and Irvine resident has filed a taxpayer lawsuit against the city and its governing body, claiming a vote...

SACRAMENTO - A decade after attorneys lost the right to question prospective jurors in California criminal courts, the Legisla...

SAN DIEGO - A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday when a jury deadlocked after six hours of deliberation in the case of a San Di...

Appellate Justice Daniel J. Kremer walked with a group of visitors through the hallways of the Simi Valley courthouse in outl...

DICTA When it isn't some poor soul conned out of his or her savings but instead a criminal geting conned, the result is sweet...

A movie studio is responsible for the negligent acts committed by an independent contractor producer who works out of its fac...

Feasible Fees? Court Strikes Blow to Section 317 Strategy Whether Section 317 justifies an award of attorney fees to a defend...

SAN DIEGO - A Carlsbad real estate lawyer who became infatuated with a client and wanted to marry her will stand trial July 1...

Intellectual property attorney Bruce D. Kuyper joins Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins as a partner, effective today . Kuyper...

DICTA 'Rembrants in the Attic' is a book about valuing, building and protecting business investments by effectively using pat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Although a federal judge in Los Angeles berated prosecutors as "asinine" for failing to add a weapons charge ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Contra Costa Supervisor Gayle Bishop, who succeeded in getting two of four perjury convictions tossed ...

SANTA ANA - When it came to awarding punitive damages, an Orange County Superior Court decided to send Los Angeles-based insu...

FORUM Recent hacker attacks may have given rise to a new form of legal liability. Page 6. By Peter Whalen and Nicole Goodwin ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether barring lawyers funded by the Legal Services Corp. from c...

A proposal by Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks to prevent Rampart-style corruption by increasing the rati...

After 21/2 years of dreadful peril at the hands of a multinational entertainment behemoth and an aging, eccentric Irish film ...

SACRAMENTO - Dealing a blow to doctors, a fractured California Supreme Court ruled Monday that revocation of medical licenses...

LAGUNA NIGUEL - A California Highway Patrol officer suspected of lying about being shot during a traffic stop pleaded not guil...

THE ADVISER Initiatives from government and industry may stem the tide of Internet-spawned cybercrimes. By Peter Brown XX By ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dean Kristy and Susan Samuels Muck, litigation partners at Shearman & Sterling in San Francisco, have join...

THE ADVISER Under new overtime rules, firms still may be able to get staff to work long days without overtime pay. By Richard ...

SACRAMENTO - Records of a criminal investigation into the homicide of a toddler need not be turned over to his parents to help...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian - the Menlo Park-based firm that gained national ...