Notebook - By Craig Anderson - SAN JOSE - Someone poisoned John Sarsfield's dogs. Whisper and Sundance were fed antifreeze or ...

SANTA MARIA - A judge on Monday removed the Santa Barbara district attorney's office from the prosecution of Diana R. Hall, a ...

RIVERSIDE - After being convicted in a trial he waited eight years in jail to get, Anthony Williams has been sentenced to 16-y...

SAN FRANCISCO - "I forgot" is not a defense for failing to register as a sex offender, the California Supreme Court ruled Mond...

SAN FRANCISCO - When U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker takes over Wednesday as chief judge for the Northern District, he will ...

Column By Garry Abrams - "My law firm partners are really space aliens, and they're out to get me!" This is what I imagine pow...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County criminal conflicts panel attorneys are in a bind. They have seen their relatively low pay stagn...

SANTA ANA - A day or two after little Michelle went missing, her family packed their clothes and furniture, caged their family...

LOS ANGELES - Convicted yacht-sinker Rex DeGeorge, a man once described as "the greatest insurance scam artist" in state histo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Employers can no longer squelch harassment suits claiming that workers forfeited the right to litigate by sign...

LOS ANGELES - Federal public defenders in Los Angeles are growing increasingly anxious that a national budget freeze will prev...

Holocaust survivor Roman Rakover, 86, knows he's running out of time. But he's still struggling to claim two life insurance po...

A judge declined to hold Chowchilla's former police chief in contempt for not following a court order to return more than a po...

Attorneys at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's Palo Alto office have an extra option to spice up their week - they can do their wor...

Education is the name of the game for the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, says the group's president, Tony Stua...

Column - Closer - By Michael Gregg - If you think for one second that jurisprudence - the study of the law - has no applicatio...

Where would a company be without its outside counsel? As this year's Corporate Counsel Top 50 chart shows, even the behemoths ...

Deal-maker-to-the-stars Barry Hirsch ended his 24-year relationship with Hirsch Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum ...

SANTA MONICA - One day after hitting a Sony vice president of legal affairs with a half-million-dollar judgment, a Santa Monic...

After several years of heated debate over the development of a parking lot owned by Hastings College of the Law, the school an...

The state Supreme Court recently depublished an appellate opinion that had expanded the scope of damages available for defecti...

Alerting an insurance investigator that her employer allegedly committed fraud when seeking coverage for a factory fire cost R...

Mark Goodman and Ethan Miller spent seven years at Barger & Wolen, a 70-lawyer insurance regulatory and litigation boutiqu...

Attorneys hoping to be hired by in-house counsel should make sure they're up on the latest technology, attendees learned at a ...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Steven B. Katz - Both the plaintiff and the defense bars were eagerly awaiting the state Sup...

Forum Column - By Lara Bazelon - On July 21, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles issued a release proudly announcing the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Starting next week, San Francisco Superior Court will close courtrooms early on Fridays. The early closures ar...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Judicial Council, citing soaring caseloads especially in Southern California's Inland Empire, will pursue ...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Tina Spee - It's high noon, and general counsel David Tognotti is almost late for a depositio...

BAKERSFIELD - Services have taken place for Mark Richard Baker, a Kern County deputy district attorney who previously worked f...