It’s been two years since prosecutors failed to get convictions for the three Oakland police officers known as the “Riders,” w...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Superior Court's head criminal judge, James J, McBride, has been reassigned to civil court following a man...

WASHINGTON - Attorneys and advocacy groups throughout the legal spectrum are voicing strong objections to a U.S. Supreme Court...

Bankruptcy law was in the throes of change when Geraldine Mund was appointed judge in 1984, a period in the judiciary she late...

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Resignations, Suspensions, Ethics Suspensions and more.

On the Move

Supporting his reputation for meticulousness, Fresno County Judge Wayne R. Ellison has compiled four volumes of notes on the...

Commissioner Robert Fracchia says he is fascinated by juvenile dependency, but it's his broader legal background that he think...

Attorney Bill J. Sayed of Tarzana is one of a growing number of lawyers nationwide who is using online software through Cybers...

LOS ANGELES - William S. Lerach likely will leave the San Diego plaintiffs' firm he co-founded within six months, a senior par...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert W. Tarun graduated from Stanford University in 1971, and he's been looking for an opportunity to return...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys continue to jockey for position to represent a class of 300,000 BAR/BRI bar-review course takers weeks...

Owners and managers of more than a dozen Los Angeles rental properties have agreed to notify tenants of potentially dangerous ...

Focus Column - Rochellen Spandorf examines new Federal Trade Commission regulations for franchises. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran Contra Costa judge credited with getting a new courthouse built and breathing new life into voir dir...

Plumas County Superior Court Presiding Judge Ira R. Kaufman, a former public defender, will be the new president of the Califo...

Forum Column - Judge Lynn Duryee has a hilarious take on questions that judges aren't asked ... but should be. ...

Letters to the Editor - Daily Journal readers aren't laughing at the antics of Orange County Superior Court Judge James M. Bro...

SAN JOSE - Linda DeBene is accustomed to starting from scratch. A former county prosecutor in Florida, DeBene moved to Califo...

Employment Column - Eric Amdursky explains how employers can prevent the liability that arises when new hires disclose trade s...

California's highest court Thursday upheld the right of local officials to preserve downtown and neighborhood business distric...

Forum Column - Penn State's Clay Calvert and Robert Richards reveal how the Justice Department is using venues around the coun...

SAN BERNARDINO -The nation's largest automotive parts retailer has agreed to pay California and other agencies $1.5 million in...

LOS ANGELES - A trial is expected to begin today for an attorney accused of sneaking drugs to his incarcerated client awaiting...

Annie Thorkelson, disillusioned with the inaccessibility of the legal system after 25 years in practice, has returned to what ...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would add 50 judges to the California bench won the support of a joint legislative budget committee t...

Victims of the deadliest train crash in Metrolink history were given the go-ahead this week to pursue negligence claims agains...

LOS ANGELES - A couple whose newborn twins were diagnosed with brain impairments received a letter rescinding their health pla...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judith Garlow, a longtime State Bar employee, artist and crusader for legal services for the poor, has died. S...