SAN DIEGO - State investigators have referred their findings of alleged fraud by former Deputy District Attorney Peter J. Long...

SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court has ruled that the civil code's litigation privilege that shields litigants from further l...

LOS ANGELES - In the first ruling of its kind in city history, a Los Angeles judge has declared a Venice man a bona fide membe...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas late Tuesday withdrew an agenda item asking the Board of Superviso...

LOS ANGELES - Two candidates for Los Angeles mayor told a gathering of lawyers Tuesday night that city government had better p...

LOS ANGELES - Say someone flattens your house - nothing left but a slab and some pipes. Do you plead theft or vandalism or som...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to reverse its 1994 unanimous decision barring polit...

SACRAMENTO - California's court system is flooded with cases alleging health problems from toxic mold because there are no pub...

LOS ANGELES - Today's column is about the law of unintended consequences, prosecutorial angst and dieting. Up in the wine coun...

SAN FRANCISCO - Only a year ago, Internet patents were considered precious commodities, a must-have for every startup. Back th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Handing a significant tax victory to the restaurant industry, a split federal appeals court on Wednesday inval...

Employers used to working under federal law must develop strategies for dealing with the new, more liberal California law.

The economic damages expert is retained to value "hard-to-value" items. His opinion provides the trier-of-fact with a yardstic...

When someone comes into your home to perform work, you expect to be safe. That was the thrust of an argument that won $11.5 mi...

While litigators believe that good expert witnesses are critical to trial success, not all jurors agree. Most jurors believe t...

Amicus briefs that just rehash the arguments of the parties are disfavored by courts. ...

Attorney Craig Cascarano felt infuriated when he heard that Bill Clinton had commuted the 15-year sentence of drug kingpin Car...

From opening statements to expert testimony, development of the story is a key component that persuasive presentation tools sh...

Adult prisons are no place for children. The Daily Journal recently profiled Zena Long, 16, one of four girls incarcerated in ...

When Lee Jay Berman thinks about alternative dispute resolution, he thinks big. "I like working with complex, multiparty cases...

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for the woman who claims she was sexually harassed by the top aide to Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown s...

Sitting in a squad car, police scan your house with an Agema 210 thermal imager. The device, originally developed by the milit...

Clients measure a lawyer's worth in many ways. In Paul D. Scott's case, it was in boxes. When client Daniel Dean, 34, came to ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Holland & Knight last week added two partners to its real estate practice group. R...

LOS ANGELES - Like most people, Paul Metzler keeps waiting for a sunny day. And after March 16, it can even be a sunny weekday...

LOS ANGELES - A wake for Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Gary T. Rowse will take place Monday. Rowse, whose work on the Littl...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, under fire for allegedly misusing public funds for his private fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the first such ruling in the country, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday that city libraries are not lia...

SAN FRANCISCO - Closely adhering to appellate court orders, a federal judge on Tuesday gave Napster Inc. a 72-hour deadline to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Art or Commerce? The California Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the boundary between the two while consid...