The mortgage fraud task force of the U.S. Attorney's office won its first case in a Northern District federal trial, but some ...
Washington, D.C.-based Howrey laid off 29 associates nationwide this week as part of a cost-cutting measure, including five in...
With consumer trust a top priority, business models that fail to 'compete on privacy' risk losing customers, write Sean Morris...
Roderick Walston of Best Best & Krieger examines the Supreme Court's 5-4 split in South Carolina v. North Carolina,...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Which Eye Doctor Will See You Now?
By Evan George
Call it the battle of the lab coats. California's eye doctors are waging a tense and unlikely battle over who can, and can't, ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court: 'Bomber's' Sentence Too Short
By John Roemer
The Millennium Bomber's 22-year sentence is too short, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. ...
After a three-week trial, a federal jury in San Francisco convicted a woman on 12 counts relating to mortgage fraud Tuesday af...
A jury slapped a neurosurgeon with a $16.5 million in damages, finding that he was negligent in making a patient wait two days...
U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III of Vermont, chairman of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, spoke with the Daily Journ...
Telecom giant AT&T has been hit with yet another federal employment-related class action alleging that the company is impr...
Gift cards may save the day for countless Christmas present procrastinators, but they've cost a former Los Angeles judge futur...
Business interests upset over California's new requirement to use more renewable transportation fuels to curb greenhouse gas e...
A joint committee of faculty and administrators from California Western School of Law and the University of California, San Di...
To settle slum allegations, a Palmdale apartment owner will 59 children $3,200 each, and 56 adults will receive $7,000. ...
Michael Judge announced Tuesday that he is stepping down after 15 years as head of the nation's oldest public defender's offic...
A Los Angeles County supervisor suggested Tuesday that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority may have spent $10 million on...
Letter to the Editor
Statewide Case Management System Stirs Up Mixed Reactions
By Sharon Liangn
Readers weigh in on issues surrounding the state's case management system. ...
Daniel Garrie of ARC and Yoav Griver of Zeichner, Ellman and Krause say inclusion of an information system expert in arbitrati...
With 250 million pounds of pharmaceutical waste disposed of annually, health and environmental impacts must not be ignored, wr...
George Kimball of Baker & McKenzie explains how competing interests and elements of outsourcing fit together to provide th...
While funding for technology projects is attractive for school districts, it is not without risks caution Lynn Murphy and Greg...
Toyota Motor Corp. is facing legal heat yet again, this time over its sticky accelerator pedals. ...
The U.S. Sentencing Commission's proposal could be the most dramatic change to the federal sentencing guidelines since a landm...
Rose Hagan, Google Inc.'s lead trademark counsel for the past seven years, is trading her high-powered legal job for a full-ti...
Solano County (Fairfield) Superior Court Judge ...
Continuing its steady expansion in California, Jones Day Tuesday announced the addition of three new partners in Silicon Valle...
Top defense verdicts
The Daily Journal highlights our picks for the top ten defense verdicts in the state.