One of the biggest challenges in many family law cases is agreeing on the amount of permanent spousal support. The challenge a...

LOS ANGELES - Daily Journal staff writer Anat Rubin has been named print journalist of the year by the Los Angeles Press Club....

A black man's murder conviction need not be reversed after prosecutors kicked all black people off the jury in his trial over ...

WASHINGTON - Endorsing the notion that no two lawyers are alike, a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a payin...

LOS ANGELES - When people think of the scandal surrounding celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano, they think of one thing: i...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court inserted itself into the hot-button debate over global warming Monday, announcing it would...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court inserted itself into the hot-button debate over global warming Monday, announcing it would...

SANTA ANA - Even before the military announced murder charges Wednesday, the seven Marines and one Navy corpsman suspected of ...

FRESNO - Hilary Ann Chittick was raised with an insatiable curiosity. That could be a good thing, Chittick said, but it made ...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - On June 7, U.S. Army First Lt. Ehren Watada became the first officer to publicly state his r...

Focus Column - By David Martinez and Carlos Chait - Congress enacted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 1...

SAN FRANCISCO - Beefing up its antitrust capabilities on the West Coast, O'Melveny & Myers has lured a top lawyer from Vis...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm Orange County lawyer and former State Bar President Andrew J. Guilford as a ...

James N. Godes is happy with his office assignment. "They've made this transition very comfortable for me," he said. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Although he has almost 20 years' experience with Gordon & Rees, Dion M. Cominos said taking over as managi...

Column - By Garry Abrams - When it comes to murder, the Mexican Mafia and Aryan Brotherhood prison gangs speak the same langua...

SAN FRANCISCO - Private telecommunication carriers are not obligated to scrutinize the legality of government surveillance pro...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi is running for re-election after four years during which he calmed a...

LOS ANGELES - After years of trying, entertainment lawyers in Los Angeles sunk Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular Web...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles unsealed Friday a 19-count indictment for tax evasion, bankruptcy fraud and m...

LOS ANGELES - Almost 20 years of epic legal struggle ended in victory Friday for Palestinian immigrant Aiad Barakat when U.S. ...

'What I try to do in my courtroom is model good behavior," said Deborah B. Andrews who presides over a Long Beach domestic vi...

Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Thomas E. Kelly has retired.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker announced Mitchell Menzer will join the firm's Los Angeles office as partner.

As a boy, Daniel B. Feldstern would go with his father into some of Los Angeles' criminal courtrooms, telling him they were so...

SAN JOSE - Sometime next year, an obscure federal agency might issue an order barring the import of the iPod, Apple Computer's...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The family law system is, in many ways, different from any other part of our trial court s...

LOS ANGELES - A collision between a freight train and a city garbage truck 30 years ago was key in defeating the city of Pomon...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert and Robert D. Richards - It's shaping up to be long, hot summer for the multibillion-dollar adu...

SACRAMENTO - The Judicial Council probably does not have the constitutional authority to set mandatory training requirements f...