Letter to the Editor - I read with great interest a recent news report about many prominent people who flunked the California ...

SAN BERNARDINO - A deputy associate defender in Orange County was named Tuesday to replace San Bernardino County's public def...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two big mistakes sunk the U.S. government's convictions of 10 Colombians in a two-ton cocaine bust at sea: the...

LOS ANGELES - Howard Dean had his yell. Michael Dukakis had his time in a tank. John Kerry whizzed by on a wind sail. "Sometim...

LOS ANGELES - Two fertility doctors who refused to artificially inseminate a lesbian because of their Christian beliefs should...

SANTA ANA - A federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday about a secret message that launched a race war between the Aryan Brother...

SAN BERNARDINO - In 15 years on the bench, Larry W. Allen has switched assignments almost as much as he moved around with his ...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Berkeley City Attorney Manuela Albuquerque gazes from her large, fourth-floor office window, she's treate...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made three Superior Court appointments Monday - two in San Joaquin County and one i...

Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the matter of Finkbeiner v. Gavid, 2006 DJDAR 2301 (Cal. App. 2nd Dist. Feb. 14, 2006...

Letter to the Editor - Judges can and often do speak without foundation or knowledge. That is the essence of the Daily Journal...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposals to rebuild California's infrastructure may prove re...

Column - By Peter Blumberg - You can't blame lawyers for trying every trick in the book to overturn a death sentence. After al...

LOS ANGELES - When Lawrence H. Cho was a child, his parents took him to lower Manhattan to watch the construction of the ill-f...

LOS ANGELES - A class action against 24 Hour Fitness settled for $38 million after managers, personal trainers and other empl...

LOS ANGELES - When it comes to appeals cases, March has been a maddening month for the Orange County Superior Court. In the l...

LOS ANGELES - While celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano allegedly recorded telephone calls of foes and even his own client...

SANTA ANA - The thought of defending a convicted murderer on capital charges of ordering more murders and running a vicious, n...

SAN DIEGO - Neptune Hospitality Advisors arranged a $25 million, five-year fixed-rate loan for the 333-room Radisson Hotel Har...

SAN JOSE - The U.S. Department of Justice is pressing ahead this week with its controversial demand that the world's largest I...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Californians are refining NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard) into an art form. The concept h...

Focus Column - By Jeffrey K.Winikow - By all accounts Roger Misiolek was a horrible boss. He yelled. He berated. He threw obje...

Forum Column - By Robert S. Huie - The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that Congress can require law schools to give ...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors can proceed with their aiding-and-abetting case against prominent lawyer Pierce H. O'Donnell's secre...

LOS ANGELES - Construction law firm Peckar & Abramson has lured James L. Ferro to its Los Angeles office. Ferro came to th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named Los Angeles federal District Judge Nora M. Manella to the 2nd District Court ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Venture capitalist Arthur Rock and former Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman partner Toni Rembe have donated $10 m...

LOS ANGELES - When Brian Ward started law school, he thought of himself as an average student. Now he's the reigning champion ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rodney E. Nelson has retired and resigned his judicial office e...

LOS ANGELES - The battle over a 14-acre urban garden in an otherwise-bleak South Los Angeles industrial area may come to a wh...