Superior Court Judge Harvey A. Silberman allegedly utilized a court commissioner as an intermediary to offer a bribe to a poli...

Judge Debra Cole-Hall grew up in Mississippi during the civil rights movement. As she watched African-Americans struggle to vo...

The Obama administration announced Thursday it will pay out $25 million in grants for the development of alternatives to the m...

Need for tax experts is spreading across the board. ...

Toyota Motor Corp. has failed again in its efforts to seal a lawsuit claiming that it concealed evidence pertaining to deadly ...

The State Bar has declined to investigate a former Bush administration lawyer for his role in authorizing extreme interrogatio...

Mary Panetta, a legal management expert, suggests using existing in-house information streams for law firm marketing. ...

Fred Silberberg of Silberberg & Ross says appointment of minor's counsel is becoming a disturbing practice in family court...

Kenneth P. Strongman works past the high emotions of failed plans and partnerships to help warring parties settle their disput...

A federal prosecutor struggled to rescue the government's perjury case against Giants slugger Barry Bonds Thursday, arguing to...

A federal judge on Thursday suggested that an attorney for former Bush administration leaders is relying on the state secrets ...

Although California's prison inmates lead the nation with a 70 percent recidivism rate, the state Department of Corrections an...

The same-sex partner of an LAPD officer killed in last year's Metrolink crash will receive her deceased partner's pension even...

Scott Shaw of Call Jensen & Ferrell lays out copyright registration requirements for a collection of visual art. ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Stephen G. Larson, left, George P. Schiavelli and Florence-Marie Cooper have left the bench for more lucrative jobs in the pri...

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Betty Kazmin, a veteran California teacher, says the database firewall separating student and teacher data should be preserved...

Jennifer Mertus of Whittier Law School says the reunion of a boy and his Chinese parents evidences flaws in adoption procedure...

The long-awaited Senate Finance version of the health care reform plan bars illegal immigrants from participating in new insur...

Thomas Klein, a Greenberg Taurig LLP shareholder, says assignment provisions must be limited to inventions using protected tra...

Even as it faces a court order to reduce its prison population by 25 percent to improve inmate mental and medical care, the st...

A diagnostic test to calibrate the proper dosage level of drugs used to treat gastrointestinal diseases is patentable under cu...

A lawsuit brought by guitarist Joe Satriani against the band Coldplay over musical similarities between his 2004 song, "If I C...

California's governor issued an executive order Tuesday setting the nation's toughest target to boost renewable energy use in ...

Marc Harris, a top white-collar criminal lawyer and recent member of the executive committee in Mayer Brown's Los Angeles offi...

Nearly a year after the Daily Journal first reported serious problems at a downtown Los Angeles Street basement facility used ...

While two groups filed a motion this week to intervene in a federal lawsuit they believe threatens Caltrans's Disadvantaged Bu...

Elan Melamid of California State University of Northridge says restoring funds to children services is not enough.