Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Amy K. Spees - Mark Hennigh, managing partner of San Francisco's Greene Radovsky Maloney &...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel is having second thoughts about its ruling a year ago that tossed out a Califor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Courts continue to wrestle with how to define whether capital murder defendants are retarded. In three succes...

MAKEUP RULE REVISITED - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an en banc hearing Friday to a female bartender who was ...

INDUSTRIAL STOCKTON - Fleenor Co. Inc. signed a 10-year, $3.19 million lease for a 130,200-square-foot industrial building at...

Employment Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the 1...

Letter to the Editor - In his commentary ("In America, History of Secularism Begins With Constitution," April 25 Daily Journal...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state lawyers and judges union has to follow the rules in its ongoing beef over the hiring of rival hearing...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. and Bryan W. Wenter - In Hafen v. County of Orange, 2005 DJDAR 4005, the...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $700,000 in damages to a 14-year-old boy blinded by a Southern California Edison ...

WASHINGTON - With a showdown over President Bush's stalled judicial nominees looming, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thurs...

SAN FRANCISCO - Is responding to a law firm's questionnaire on the Internet the same as visiting the firm for an initial cons...

SAN DIEGO - Closing the books on the city's controversial mayoral election, three supporters of a write-in candidate Thursday ...

SAN FRANCISCO - William R. Channell, whose varied criminal career took him from the criminal courts of Alameda County to the ...

LOS ANGELES - David Rosen vowed to hide the actual costs of a blockbuster Hollywood gala thrown in support of Hillary Clinton'...

LOS ANGELES - Thelen Reid & Priest has agreed to pay the city of South Gate $850,000 - one month after the city threatened...

LOS ANGELES - Days after deputy sheriffs fired 120 rounds in a messy Compton shootout, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Depar...

LOS ANGELES - Fifty dollars may patch the hole in the stucco but it won't eradicate the nightmares, say Compton residents who...

INDUSTRIAL FREMONT - Warm Springs Associates sold a 167,000-square-foot research-and-development building at 47747-47853 Warm...

Forum Column - By Gary Kalkut and Nancy Neveloff Dubler - Late last month, New York's major newspapers reported that a 13-year...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - A recent study by the American Association of Retired Persons found that prescription drug...

SANTA ANA - The jury that convicted Alejandro Avila of murdering 5-year-old Samantha Runnion was set to begin considering his...

LOS ANGELES - Prominent entertainment attorney Howard Weitzman, who advised clients like Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In his first five years on the bench, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero's highest profile criminal case was ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to referee a dispute over Los Angeles palm trees' tendency to g...

LOS ANGELES - A deputy public defender testified Wednesday that the thought a Los Angeles police officer would intentionally s...

LOS ANGELES - A federal prosecutor tore into Hillary Clinton's former finance director on Wednesday, calling David Rosen a "fl...

SAN FRANCISCO - A scammer is not a fence, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded Wednesday in the case of Silicon Va...

Column By Garry Abrams Tombstone on wheels? Deadwood with cars and trucks? Yes, it's back to the Wild, Wild West once again h...

LOS ANGELES - Legal malpractice lawsuits are common but rarely is a criminal defense lawyer forced to take the witnesses stand...