WASHINGTON - Having played a major role in forcing the White House to withdraw Harriet E. Miers' nomination to the Supreme Cou...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have sought permission from superiors in Washington, D.C., to bring racketeer...

SAN FRANCISCO - Roche Holding suspended shipments of its anti-viral drug Tamiflu to the United States and Canada on Thursday t...

BAKERSFIELD - The picture above U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa A. Goldner's desk shows a strong oak tree enveloped in what appe...

Forum Column - By Maragaret Crosby - The California Constitution protects freedom of speech, guarantees religious liberty, out...

Focus Column - By Craig Pinedo - Section 2019.210 of the Code of Civil Procedure requires a party alleging misappropriation of...

LOS ANGELES - A three-year-old practice by Compton judges of denying all motions filed less than 30 days before trial was not ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As the recruiting season winds down, students at top law schools and representatives from leading law firms ar...

SAN FRANCISCO - The big California HMO seeking to cancel insurance for a group of San Francisco lawyers again faced tough ques...

LOS ANGELES - Law firms eager to open or expand offices in burgeoning China are looking for attorneys willing to make the leap...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Department is collecting DNA evidence in nonviolent crimes for the first time under a pil...

WASHINGTON - It has become a yearly ritual on Capitol Hill. Republicans in the House and Senate introduce a variety of bills t...

LOS ANGELES - For many law students, summer clerkships, high class rankings and journal positions are all building to that one...

Letter to the Editor - Richard A. Nixon's letter to the editor criticizing so-called "judicial activism" (Oct. 21 Daily Journa...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Whatever politeness remained in the debate over President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the...

LOS ANGELES - Jody Kent is an advocate for people whom many consider society's rejects. As the jails project coordinator for t...

Forum Column - By Rabbi Ralph Mecklenburger, Bishop Kevin Kanouse and the Rev. Fritz Ritsch - We write as religious leaders, w...

Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Katharine J. Galston, Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - Two significant environm...

SAN FRANCISCO - With Election Day less than two weeks away, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has a lot to feel good ...

LOS ANGELES - It was less than a year ago when PeopleSoft Inc. founder David Duffield's company was seized by larger rival Ora...

SAN FRANCISCO - William Speer, acting as his own attorney in a rape and murder trial in California's oldest "cold case" prosec...

LOS ANGELES - Efforts to form a combined union of Los Angeles prosecutors and public defenders may have foundered because a ke...

LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for former longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward R. Roybal, a champion of minority rights wh...

LOS ANGELES - In a warehouse in suburban Los Angeles County, the district attorney's office has quietly launched an effort to ...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The NBA players who screamed racism when the league demanded that they dump their bl...

Forum Column - By Nathaniel Bruno - The worst day of my life recurred about twice a year from fifth-grade through college. The...

Focus Column - By Stephen R. Hofer - What possible connection could the resolution of a 33-year-old dispute between the United...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Richard Ceballos was, in 2000, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney. He became ...

Column - By Garry Abrams - I dreamed I was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for wearing a T-shirt with Tom DeLay'...

SAN FRANCISCO - They took the weekend off, but conservatives on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday resumed hammer...