SAN BERNARDINO - In 30 years as a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge, Patrick J. Morris made a name for himself start...

SALARIES UP - Sullivan & Cromwell is increasing associate salaries by $20,000, sources said Friday. The move by the New Yo...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Peter S. Smith has been honored for his novel, "The Magistrates....

LOS ANGELES - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has announced that it has appointed partner Susan E. Hollander as co-manager of th...

SAN JOSE - A federal appellate court has given the government a boost in one of the first cases in the nation to test a 1996 ...

CUPERTINO - Archstone-Smith purchased a 311-unit apartment community for $88 million. Archstone-Smith funded the acquisition p...

LOS ANGELES - For Mayela Rodriguez, the smell is constant, oppressive, inescapable. "It smells like garbage," she said through...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas Dandurand admits that, as a young man, he never really intended to go into law. "I always thought I'd b...

Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - The year 2005 was a slow one for employment legislation, requiring little updat...

Letter to the Editor - In an Op-Ed piece originally printed in The New York Times and reprinted in the Daily Journal on Jan. 2...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - "I certainly appreciate your concern, and I would appreciate anything that you can d...

Focus Column - By John Sturgeon - Your kid may not be the only nuisance in town. Others may include your neighbor's overhangin...

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...