SAN FRANCISCO - Securities litigator Bruce Vanyo, who founded Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's litigation department mo...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Cardinal Roger M. Mahony filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday seeking to block pro...

From Staff Reports - A memorial service will be held Saturday for James E. Pfeiffer, noted Bay Area historian and founding dir...

LOS ANGELES - In 1999, Cheryl Ward-Kaiser met with a man in prison to ask him questions. Eight years earlier, he had held her ...

LOS ANGELES - Prominent trial lawyer Pierce H. O'Donnell pleaded no contest Thursday to five misdemeanor charges that he laund...

Forum Column - By Steven L. Berman - On July 2, 2001, I was sworn in as an "as-needed" court referee at the Edelman Children's...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Kamala Harris appointed a veteran gang prosecutor Thursday as the new head of her homicide u...

LOS ANGELES - Most people wouldn't consider trading a dollar for 13 cents. But Eddie Solivan, an unemployed 22-year-old, need...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday appointed two Republicans to judgeships in San Bernardino and Santa Clar...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted 6-0 Wednesday to decide whether police can be sued for civil rights violati...

From Staff Reports - Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, as expected, will be the U.S. Supreme Court's new liaison to the 9t...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The Bruce Springsteen song goes "one step up, and two steps back" and so is the case with ...

Focus Column - By Frank J. Coughlin and Leslie Patko - Are demand letters, or even lawsuits, truly privileged? The answer now ...

LOS ANGELES - Patrick Sweeney met resistance when he approached his alma mater, Whittier Law School, about teaching a course ...

LOS ANGELES - Show me the evidence, or show me the money. That's the message attorney Bradley Gage wants to send the city of L...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Alice C. Hill is known for doing the work of 10 people and never losing ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It turns out that a woman sentenced to five life sentences for writing bad checks in Nevada didn't actually co...

WASHINGTON - Questions about the lawfulness of the Bush administration's covert surveillance program are taxing the sharpest o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge on Wednesday rejected a discrimination lawsuit brought by followers of a Chinese spiritu...

LOS ANGELES - Tort reformers have set their sights on a ballot initiative that could insulate manufacturers from paying puniti...

RIVERSIDE - Where West La Cadena Drive meets Interstate 215 in Riverside, the hands are now silent. There, for nearly 50 years...

TIME DOESN'T PAY - A mile may be a long way to walk from your parking space in the company lot, but that doesn't mean your emp...

LOS ANGELES - Two Attorneys Join Bankruptcy Court Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has a...

Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - The term "voir dire" translated from Norman French, means "to speak the truth." See Bo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sex sells. Finally. More than two years after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a domain name ...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - In the ceaseless culture wars in the United States that target and cast aspersions on media p...

Letter to the Editor - In "TV Skews Americans' Understanding of Real Justice System" (Jan. 27 Daily Journal), Joshua Marquis m...

Forum Column - By Yolanda Arias - The president and the House of Representatives are trying to strike a blow against foster ch...

Letter to the Editor - The issue of whether to impose a two-year moratorium on California's death penalty so that a California...

SAN FRANCISCO - In what came down to a high-stakes game of Semantic Scramble, San-Jose based Think Outside Inc. scored a signi...