San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris and a coalition of Chinese community services are calling illegal gambling addic...

In a patent trial that may have far-reaching implications for California electronics companies, attorneys from Orrick, Herring...

Allegations of "barbarous punishment" by a preschool teacher against two mentally retarded students initially shocked the San ...

Anti-abortion activists prevented from demonstrating at Long Beach City College saw their lawsuit against the school district ...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Dov Waisman and James Harris - The abuse of discretion standard is perhaps the most commonly...

Letter to the Editor - The Daily Journal's recent report on a misguided lawsuit challenging interpreter guidelines for federal...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for property owners' rights advocate Gordon P. Gitlen, who made a name for himself def...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office can move forward with its prosecution of litigator Pierce H. O'Donnel...

EXTRA Feature - Enron. Krispy Kreme. Time Warner. Homestore. WorldCom. Corporate America has kept California's top securities ...

LOS ANGELES - The state's top jurist says Californians remain reluctant to respond to jury summonses despite efforts to make s...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Georgia is the new Florida. And Florida, as everyone knows, has been forever stigmatized as the new...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bible hasn't been particularly kind to the image of amphibians. In Exodus, for example, an infestation of...

Winston & Strawn further broadened its litigation team with the recent acquisition of Stephen Smerek from Quinn Emanuel Ur...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a Chinese woman may qualify for political asylum in ...

LOS ANGELES - Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock. Slicing his way through traffic with the wind whipping past his ears and a caco...

INDUSTRIAL SANTA FE SPRINGS - EnerSys signed a five-year, $1.1-million lease for a 32,000-square-foot industrial building at 1...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Alan J. Heinrich, Wendy Marantz Levine and Ted M. Sichelman - Recent cases a...

Forum Column - By Simon Cole - It was recently reported that the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Silicon Valley executive charged with plotting the murder of a San Francisco federal judge was grant...

LOS ANGELES - Following a judge's refusal to issue an emergency order, editors of a Kern County high-school newspaper said th...

LOS ANGELES - A disgruntled screenwriter has been charged with mailing threatening letters to U.S. District Judge Dickran Tev...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two environmentalists prosecuted for spinning a treetop web of ropes meant to thwart helicopter logging in Mon...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco has obtained two federal indictments in the past week charging loc...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors have charged an Orange County man with murder for allegedly poisoning a Los Angeles criminal defense ...

PLACERVILLE - Doug Phimister's dream ever since he was an urban teen-ager was to trade the big city lights of New York City f...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Dennis E. Mulcahy sits high above the constant swirl of lawyers, parale...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Thursday that the maker of several popular low-cost wines cannot use the word "N...

SAN FRANCISCO - In its second hearing this week regarding gay rights, the California Supreme Court seemed to struggle Thursday...

INDUSTRIAL RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA - Blue California purchased a 24,145-square-foot industrial building at 23161 Antonio Parkw...

SAN JOSE - Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Kirsch got angry four years ago when he kept getting unsolicited faxes. He's bee...