Employment Column - By Scott C. Harris - Those who track legal trends have come out with a staggering figure: By 2016, as much...

LOS ANGELES - The bond between El Centro attorney Lowell F. Sutherland and his client runs deeper than the personal injury cas...

LOS ANGELES - Troy D. Roe did not consider becoming a lawyer until a professor suggested the idea to him during his final year...

LOS ANGELES - A Sacramento appellate court has agreed to reconsider one of its published opinions that lambasted attorneys for...

Column By Peter Blumberg One developed a hunger for justice as a witness to the racial violence in Birmingham, Ala., at the h...

LOS ANGELES - Last Friday, veteran Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael Yamamoto went to court for the first time as...

SAN FRANCISCO - Monterey County Commissioner Richard Rutledge will not face criminal charges over allegations that he fixed tr...

LOS ANGELES - The panoramic vista from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mohr's chambers at the Central Civil West ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Providian Financial Corp., one of the nation's largest credit card issuers, has agreed to pay $3 million to se...

SAN BERNARDINO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George has honored Tressa Sloan Kentner, executive officer of the San Bernardino Supe...

RETAIL UPLAND - Passco Real Estate Enterprises Inc. sold Upland Square Shopping Center at 813-913 W. Foothill Blvd. for $19.1...

LOS ANGELES - Stanley Orzech was 13, living in the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, when World War II broke out. Young and healthy, Or...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on John Roberts' appointment as chief justice of...

LOS ANGELES - Hurricane Katrina produced a montage of devastatingly unfamiliar scenes: corpses left unattended in the streets ...

LOS ANGELES - In an effort to recruit more lawyers to represent abused and neglected children in dependency court proceedings...

SACRAMENTO - All they wanted was a little privacy, the judges said, a little added protection from some angry soul bent on ret...

The Daily Journal Top 100 - Some are power brokers and insiders. Others fight for the powerless and those caught inside exces...

SAN FRANCISCO - One day in the late 1970s, Marie Fiala gathered with a group of women in a restroom on the 30th floor of a dow...

LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella has hired prominent white-collar criminal-defense law...

LOS ANGELES - Two men charged with illegally dumping and storing toxic waste were arrested Wednesday in what the Los Angeles C...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Former Playboy Playmate and all-around celebrity and sex icon Anna Nicole Smith was in Vermont play...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted 6-0 Wednesday to decide whether the renovation of an old bank building in ...

BAKERSFIELD - Both the clerk and the bailiff looked up in shock when Kern Superior Court Judge Robert S. Tafoya asked the def...

WASHINGTON - By breaking from their party colleagues, Democrats intending to vote for John G. Roberts Jr. as chief justice hop...

MULTIFAMILY FONTANA - Joseph Chavez of Marcus & Millichap brokered the $5.4 million sale of a multifamily property at 167...

Forum Column - By Warren D. Camp - Trial courts are vested with broad judicial discretion to fashion orders that are in the be...

Forum Column - By William I. Rothbard, Theodore F. Monroe and Bradley O. Cebeci - The Federal Trade Commission's relentless at...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Peter J. Laufenberg - From the desk of the insurance commissioner of Florida to Insurance Co...

Letter to the Editor - The article titled "Making a Federal Case of Gangs" gave the false impression of a new trend in federal...

Letter to the Editor - I am the assistant district attorney in charge of major cases and homicides for the Santa Clara County ...