LOS ANGELES - Judge Frank J. Johnson spends several weekends a year motorcycling in the desert with his sons. It's a hobby tha...

A Los Angeles judge signaled Tuesday that he would move french fries to the front burner in his court. Superior Court Judge We...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court expressed concern Tuesday about the lawfulness of the military tribunals President Bush es...

SAN JOSE - For decades it has been a near certainty that anyone who is caught misusing patented information will be forever ba...

LOS ANGELES - In 1996, nine years into his legal career, James N. Bianco decided to tackle the treacherous glaciers of Alaska'...

Forum Column - By Bert Brandenburg - The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld , 05-...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Marin County court executive facing criminal charges for allegedly steering government contracts to h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attempts by Barry Bonds to strike back at the authors of "Game of Shadows" - a book that claims the record-set...

WASHINGTON - A fast-moving proposal in Congress to tighten border security has immigration lawyers worried that foreigners fle...

COACHELLA - TMC America provided $3.85 million of equity financing to Coachella Land 389 LLC for the acquisition of phases II ...

LOS ANGELES - Demanding $5 from your friend amounts to robbery when, just hours earlier, you harassed him at work, waved a gun...

LOS ANGELES - Jason L. Nazar's first business worked like this: he lent his fellow third and fourth graders $3; a week later, ...

Letter to the Editor - The Daily Journal's March 16 article "Girding for Its Biggest Battle," about Christensen, Miller, Fink,...

Focus Column - By Lester O. Brown - In Kelo, et al. v. City of New London, Connecticut, et al. , 125 S. Ct. 2655 (June 23, 200...

Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - Arecent 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision addresses the potential conflict or...

LOS ANGELES - Scott McPhee, a real estate and finance attorney, has rejoined Morrison & Foerster's Los Angeles office afte...

LOS ANGELES - Four labor and employment attorneys at Musick Peeler & Garrett are singing a new tune after departing the la...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is doubling the number of retired homicide investigators hired to wo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A 91-year-old San Francisco woman who almost lost her duplex and saw her bank account nearly drained is part o...

LOS ANGELES - Carl E. Jones, a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney whose folksy demeanor beguiled juries into favoring his c...

LOS ANGELES - A national group that speaks on behalf of federal judges is asking lawmakers to drop plans to push all immigrati...

LOS ANGELES - A father whose teenage son shot and killed two students and wounded 13 others at a San Diego area high school in...

CALIFORNIA - Newmeyer & Dillion has added four associates to its roster. Joining the firm's Newport Beach office are Adrie...

DISBARMENTS Cutler, Stephan Z., Long Beach Dorfman, Daniel Blaine, La Quinta Harrington, Mylik R., Los Angeles SUSPENSIONS Hro...

LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has selected longtime Deputy Federal Public Defender Sean K. Kennedy as th...

SAN DIEGO - Laboratory Corp. of America leased 109,780 square feet of research-and-development space in the Sabre Springs Busi...

RED BLUFF - Just beyond a grove of walnut trees huddled together against the chill of a late winter day and across the street ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran mediator Susan W. Haldeman knows a lot about seeing both sides of the story. She's been doing it her w...

Employment Column - By Stephen P. Wiman - Since 9/11, some 18,000 Californians have served abroad in the California National G...

Letter to the Editor - I am writing in response to Erwin Chemerinsky's predictable attack ("Court Snubs Free Speech to Bow to ...