SAN ANTONIO - Texas has a well-deserved reputation for being tough on crime, but leaders of the Texas criminal justice system ...

SAN DIEGO - In a sensational murder trial scheduled to open here today, defense attorneys contend prosecutors have the wrong m...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - What is in a name? A method, or a technology? Everything, in today's economy. Tales of patented ...

SANTA ANA - Though he voiced concern that his ruling only delays the inevitable, a federal judge on Friday blocked the America...

TULARE - Asked during a recent interview why he became a lawyer, Tulare Superior Court Judge Ronn Couillard was quick to reply...

SAN JOSE - Criminal defendants who want to block media access to their probation reports more than 60 days after their convict...

SAN FRANCISCO - A century and a half after the Civil War, the nation's courts are still consumed by spirited turf battles over...

WASHINGTON - Responding to widespread criticism, the Pentagon on Friday announced that the government could monitor only under...

SAN FRANCISCO - An antitrust case alleging oil price-fixing in American Samoa that began while the Vietnam War still raged and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sharon Claire Brooks, the divorce lawyer who called a family law judge a rat during her own marital breakup, m...

LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of farm employees and their families are suing a large Kern County farm operation, claiming that the im...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Cary Schatz - Disputes over rights to Internet domain names are on the rise. The mos...

Employment Column - By Deanna M. Wilkinson - Every lawyer knows how to do some level of self-marketing. In order for lawyers t...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - It was bound to happen - only a question of when and where violence would erupt in respo...

ABA Notebook - By Don DeBenedictis - SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Every American Bar Association meeting is replete with awards, which...

SANTA ANA - The editor of a Los Angeles newspaper, whom an eBay user branded "dishonest" in a feedback profile, cannot sue eBa...

LOS ANGELES - Rescuers have recovered the body of Christopher C. Foley, a retired deputy state attorney general who died durin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former paralegal for San Francisco attorney Waukeen McCoy testified Thursday that McCoy asked him to hug, cu...

WASHINGTON - William Myers III, the president's latest nominee for a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, faced repe...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court scolded appellate justices in Riverside Thursday for turning a deaf ear to lawyer...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a gay former Air Force doctor hope to chip away at the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy o...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County cannot make a rehabilitation facility for disabled people bear the brunt of painful budget cu...

OAKLAND - The legendary real property law firm Miller Starr & Regalia defended itself Thursday in opening statements again...

SANTA ANA - Justice Eileen C. Moore didn't speak publicly about her experiences as a combat nurse in Vietnam until the late 19...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers may cite sonnets by Shakespeare or scenes from Spielberg for their persuasive value, but they can't ci...

LOS ANGELES - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Wednesday that only full marriage rights for gay couples - not ci...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - In 1855, the state Supreme Court, in one of its most laconic opinions ever,...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Angele Solano - Contracts for real-estate purchase and sales transactions routinely include ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, a 950-lawyer Dallas firm, has landed two veteran litigation partners fr...

Reporter's Notebook - By Erik Cummins - SAN FRANCISCO - Teveia Barnes looked at a lot of job offers when she left the Bar Asso...