SAN FRANCISCO - A 61-year-old ex-shipyard worker who is dying of asbestos-related cancer won $10 million in damages Mond...

SAN DIEGO - A judge Tuesday ordered the release of 100 hours of recorded raw conversations among traders at energy companies t...

SAN FRANCISCO - One summer day last year, FBI agents paid a visit to the home of freelance videographer Josh Wolf. But it wasn...

The Central Civil West Courthouse will be closed at least until the end of the week, following a major power outage from an el...

CONCORD - A Concord criminal defense attorney is facing possible disbarment, accused of stealing nearly $80,000 by dipping int...

An appellate panel criticized an Irvine law firm Tuesday for not playing fair while defending a company against an employee's ...

Forum Column - In the article "On the Roberts Court, the Police Get More Freedom" (Daily Journal, July 21), Professor Erwin Ch...

SACRAMENTO - For the first time, three labor unions have made the state's top 10 list of money spent on lobbying. ...

Focus Column - John Paul Murphy, a store manager of Kenneth Cole Productions, resigned from his position in 2002 after a frien...

Letter to the Editor - The recent article, "Students Flock to Do Public Service" (Daily Journal, July 27), should remind lawye...

SanDisk to Pay $1.55 Billion For Israel-Based Msystems

TENTATIVE SETTLEMENT - On the day jury selection was scheduled to start, attorneys in the PCO v. Shapiro case reached a tentat...

The far-off Pacific island of Bougainville is no stranger to major historical events. There, in World War II, American fighter...

SAN FRANCISCO - The national labor and employment law firm Littler Mendelson announced Monday the acquisition of San Jose-base...

Focus Column - The government giveth and the government taketh away." This phrase pretty well sums up the Supreme Court's rece...

SACRAMENTO - Sloat, Higgins, Jensen & Associates is not a firm familiar to most lawyers in California. ...

LOS ANGELES - Going to court is rarely fun. But for four years, Kids' Place has turned thousands of court appearances for adul...

LOS ANGELES - An electrical fire early Monday closed the Central Civil West Courthouse near downtown Los Angeles. The courthou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three minority-owned legal recruiting firms have been tapped by the California Minority Counsel Program to pro...

Forum Column - Many attorneys who are parents of special needs children find that the prospect of coordinating services, arra...

Law-firm mergers nationwide were down slightly in the first half of 2006, according to new data from Hildebrandt International...

Billboards do not have a "right to be seen,' the state's high court unanimously ruled Monday. ...

LOS ANGELES - Carl "CJ" Johnson, the drug-dealing, hooker-killing, car-stealing hooligan in the video game "Grand Theft Auto: ...

LOS ANGELES - Kent B. Goss, a Los Angeles-based partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, is departing the firm to join Orri...

Wearing his cowboy boots and driving his pickup, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mike Camacho is learning the ropes in his ne...

LOS ANGELES - Whether he was musing over the latest revelations in the Suge Knight case, expounding on the in-fighting among W...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case closely watched across the country, a Bay Area public television station is challenging the Bush adm...

Forum Column - When Jeannette Popp's daughter was murdered, her whole world turned upside down. ...

LOS ANGELES - After losing several senior lawyers in the past year, San Francisco's Steefel, Levitt & Weiss is bouncing ba...

LOS ANGELES - Ronald Gastelum, a former president and chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern C...