A desire to do good led John Behnke to the Peace Corps in Afghanistan and a legal practice near the redwoods. Now he sees hi...

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales again found himself in the hot seat Thursday, this time facing hostile questions from a cong...

Marsha Slough uses a number of methods to try to divert young offenders from a criminal life - and jogging with the judge is...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Dolores Reyes opened a restaurant in the city's historic Mission District, she decided to call it Los Jar...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - An underlying cause of prison overcrowding in California is the state’s sentencing scheme....

Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - An important, but quiet, change to California employment policy expands the “le...

Lawyers representing a Peruvian community have sued Occidental Petroleum Corp. and subsidiary Occidental Peruana Inc. for dump...

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who headed the municipal Building Inspection Department received a $156,000 settlement from the city s...

Focus Column - By Jack Ko - Even businesses that don’t create or distribute software can run afoul of the “general public lice...

SACRAMENTO - Next week, when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger releases his revised state budget proposal with the latest revenue and...

LOS ANGELES - Richard Rosenthal enters the drawing room in his Marina del Rey office and takes in Los Angeles' expansive spraw...

A Chinese-born engineer with a defense contractor in Anaheim schemed to gather U.S. defense technology and send it to China, a...

LOS ANGELES - For nearly 70 years, a state law governing insurance policies didn't receive a single consumer complaint. ...

Last year's Tour de France champion, Floyd Landis, and his lawyer, Maurice Suh, will fight charges that Landis doped with synt...

Letters to the Editor - Counting a mentally ill man's robbery of a liquor store as a third strike shows an extraordinary abdic...

An Orange County criminal defense lawyer can sue the city and county of Los Angeles for falsifying warrant applications in ord...

SAN FRANCISCO - Come midsummer, law firms established in Silicon Valley can expect to contend with yet another East Coast player.

With marathon office hours, family obligations, continuing education, extracurricular activities, leisure and exercise, few of...

In this year's edition of Top Women Litigators, the Daily Journal honors the successes of these lawyers by looking back at som...

I refuse to apologize because I work. I like to work. The sanctity of my office on Monday mornings is a welcome respite from...

LOS ANGELES - Some of the state's top drunken-driving lawyers agree with Paris Hilton that her 45-day jail sentence is a raw d...

A convicted killer who spent 28 years behind bars has been released after arguing he was unfairly ordered to attend religious-...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Superior Court jury awarded $250,000 in punitive damages Wednesday to the family of a smoker w...

Focus Column - By Thomas P. Krzeminski - If the Supreme Court changed the way patent validity were determined, how would the d...

SAN FRANCISCO - In evaluating his client list, rate structure, and real-estate and corporate practice, which has grown exponen...

Forum Column - By Richard M. Mosk - Vincent Bugliosi’s book on the Kennedy assassination concludes that the Warren Commission ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley is asking that his office receive $9 million more than what is...

Lawyers for former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes will ask a federal judge on Friday to dismiss most of the ...

LOS ANGELES - The mistrials of two California Vioxx plaintiffs in January and the sudden dismissal of another case on the eve ...