SAN FRANCISCO - Members of a state judicial watchdog agency grilled Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kevin A. Ross on Wednesd...

SAN FRANCISCO - No comment means no comment, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. Reversing a life sentence, the 9th U.S....

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco federal judge indicated Tuesday he is leery of allowing prosecutors to keep their witness lis...

ORANGE - If Superior Court Judge Josephine Staton Tucker was growing impatient with Todd A. Story's numerous objections, it d...

SAN JOSE - Jim Shore, a 16-year veteran lawyer with the Santa Clara County district attorney's office, is poised to enter the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The First Amendment does not protect an Arizona prison inmate who said he wanted to string a federal judge up...

Symantec Corp. announced it has agreed to acquire privately held Sygate Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Freemont-...

LOS ANGELES - Despite last week's $253-million verdict against Vioxx-maker Merck Co., the pharmaceutical giant says it remains...

Forum Column - By Gerald F. Uelmen - It now appears that the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to succeed Justice Sandra...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - The results of a major survey released in June taking the U.S. population's pulse on free exp...

Focus Column - Corporate Governance - By Louis R. Dienes - Venture capital investors often require a seat on a corporation's b...

LOS ANGELES - Ellen Miller Quarnstrom, the first woman to become a judge in Kern County, has died. Quarnstrom died Thursday at...

SAN DIEGO - San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre plans to represent the city in a Securities and Exchange Commission invest...

LOS ANGELES - Acting on a tip from a former prosecutor, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has filed five welfa...

LOS ANGELES - Agilent Technologies, the world's largest maker of scientific-testing equipment, will drop two struggling busine...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Benjamin G. Shatz and Lara M. Krieger - The first and most important step in any appeal is t...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego judge on Tuesday stopped short of charging top state prison officials with contempt but warned them th...

The legal community continues to honor attorney Carl R. Poirot for championing pro bono services to the poor and needy in San ...

Forum Column - By Joaquin G. Avila - In Thomas L. Friedman's new book, "The World Is Flat," The New York Times columnist conte...

LOS ANGELES - No matter how much you trust your business partners, get the contract signed. That was the lesson for Big Idea P...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Are cameras the new cure for crime? You'd think so, the way closed-circuit television cameras are b...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego Superior Court judge has threatened to hold top state prison officials in contempt today if they fail ...

LOS ANGELES - Junior associates hoping that Robert Gunderson might again serve as the patron saint of higher salaries are like...

BAKERSFIELD - Kern Superior Court Judge Sharon Mettler listened patiently as the estranged husband and wife each gave reasons ...

Letter to the Editor - In his recent Op-Ed, "Thomas, Unbridled, Would Gut 200 Years of Precedent" (Aug. 5 Daily Journal), Erwi...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - "I want my mom." While this phrase is uttered frequently by suspects dur...

LOS ANGELES - Two corporate attorneys have been tapped by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to sit on the five-member board overseein...

LOS ANGELES - Bert H. Deixler, a prominent trial lawyer who played a key role in the city's police reform efforts, has taken o...

RIVERSIDE - James D. Ward, a Court of Appeal justice instrumental in simplifying the language of the state civil jury instruct...

LOS ANGELES - In a move drawing criticism from free-speech advocates and the nation's largest library association, Los Angeles...