Notebook - By Phillip Carrizosa - To most lawyers and judges, forgiveness is still a foreign concept within the law. The Ameri...
SAN FRANCISCO - After eight years on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge A. Wallace Tashima has announced he will mov...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutor David Angel has an unusual new assignment. He's not trying to put people behind bars....
BAKERSFIELD - When John Stoll was sent to prison in 1985 as a convicted child molester, he chose to remain in the general popu...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Brent Kendall - On a blustery January day uncommonly cold for coastal Virginia, dozens of fir...
SAN FRANCISCO - When he slashed the state's vehicle license fee, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger triggered an obligation to pay an ...
LOS ANGELES - Before he ever considered becoming a judge, or a lawyer for that matter, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dennis...
SAN DIEGO - Just weeks after Los Angeles agreed to pay $500,000 for disciplinary letters it placed in its police officers' fil...
SAN FRANCISCO - The legal campaign to strike down a national ban on late-term abortions opens today in three federal courtroom...
SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco Superior Court Judge Kevin McCarthy and Vietnam-born David Bui fell in love seven years ago...
SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe is the latest California law firm to stake out a claim in the capital of t...
Poets have gotten a bad rap. Almost as bad as lawyers. At least there isn't a formal genre of poet jokes. But when times get t...
Judges and Judiciary
Duck Blind or Not, Scalia Had Already Made Up His Mind
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lou Mathews - I am not a lawyer but I am married to one, which means that I am occasionally forced to bring ...
Intellectual Property
Decision Could Aid Defense Of Copyright Infringement
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Harrison J. Dossick - It seems as if copyright infringement claims over the creation of ...
Employment Column - By Edward D. Burmeister and Robert G. Marshall II - When planning to offer equity plan awards to employees...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice Powell Wins Judicial-Bias Oscar for 'Roe v. Wade'
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Philip A. Rafferty - Justice Lewis F. Powell, after retiring from the Supreme Court, admitted to Nina Totenb...
Forum Column - By Michael Benner - In the classic "Man's Search for Meaning," Viktor Frankl describes his experience as a pris...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Debates Role of Foreign Law in Federal Judges' Rulings
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Democrats, Republicans and law professors were deeply divided Thursday over the propriety of federal judges looki...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Alert Warns of Conflicting SEC, State Rules
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar upped the stakes Thursday in its growing rift with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It is...
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanford Law School has snagged top intellectual property law professor Mark Lemley from its perennial rival, ...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Thursday asked Los Angeles zoo officials to find out when Ruby the African elephant will move out of iso...
LOS ANGELES - Daniel Nicherie left U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson's courtroom in the custody of U.S. marshals late Wednesd...
Judges and Judiciary
Adopted Jurist Gives Back By Helping Others to Adopt
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A decade ago, Riverside Superior Court Commissioner Joan F. Ettinger, who was adopted as an infant, summoned the c...
Appellate Practice
Suit Against Chevron Over Rights Abuses Moves Ahead
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A human rights lawsuit seeking to hold ChevronTexaco Corp. responsible for the violent suppression of environm...
SAN FRANCISCO - On the second day of San Francisco's same-sex marriage spree, City Hall was mobbed. The line to wed stretched ...
SACRAMENTO - Two brothers who practice law in Emeryville have fought a quixotic battle to win the right to cite unpublished ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge denied a defense motion Thursday to close a jury trial that would decide whether a murde...
SAN FRANCISCO - Covenant Care Inc. will be liable for punitive damages if plaintiffs can prove the nursing home chain starved ...
LOS ANGELES - Navneet S. Chugh laughingly said he was "a little pushy" about helping launch the new National South Asian Bar A...
SANTA ANA - No one had heard of it happening before. The jury had just delivered its verdict against Willie Hubert Knox, convi...