SAN FRANCISCO - Formal notices warning scores of lawyers in Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office that they could be laid off...

LOS ANGELES - While school officials and reformers celebrated settlement of a major lawsuit to improve shoddy schools for Lati...

LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys must pay their former boss the costs of replacing office staff after the pair left the firm and re...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento judge's "dynamite" instruction to jurors blew up in his face Thursday as a unanimous appellate pa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thursday's California Supreme Court ruling invalidating more than 4,000 same-sex marriages is just the first s...

SAN DIEGO - Charts that mysteriously made their way into the jury room and reportedly played a key role in the murder convicti...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - America's national forests are under a furious and unrelenting attack by the Bush administ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeff Winikow - Like the swallows at Capistrano, employment-at-will issues regularly re-surf...

Forum Column - By Neal Sonnett - The American Bar Association stood up this week for our soldiers posted around the world now ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Donald E. Warner Jr. and John S. Caragozian - In November 2003, days before he was recalled...

Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - In every federal election since Reconstruction after the Civil War, every election since the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Before her recent retirement, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Judith Whitmer lamented the loss of autono...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some Alameda County deputy public defenders are refusing to sign forms where defendants waive future jury tria...

SAN FRANCISCO - Can judges order would-be amici curiae on the losing side of a lawsuit to pay attorney fees? The state Supreme...

INDIO - A memorial service will be today for Sergio A. Retamal, an Indio civil attorney known for his passion for the law and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 5th District Court of Appeal came up with a novel way to discourage a deluge of briefing on Blakely...

REDWOOD CITY - The legal experts commenting on the Scott Peterson murder trial resemble a best-in-show parade before televisio...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego man imprisoned 21 years for the murder of a child said after his court-ordered release late Tuesday th...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Gary Feess expressed serious doubts Wednesday about the federal prosecution of Oxnard pain d...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Judith Whitmer was skeptical whether she could sentence the convicted ch...

LOS ANGELES - Many of the qualities commonly attributed to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert L. Hess were on display in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Department officials who review immigration appeals cannot simply rubber stamp decisions by their own ...

LOS ANGELES - Manuel Navarro cannot be forced to pay support for children he did not father. But if child-support officials st...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge, in a blistering ruling accusing government officials of elevating international politics over...

Forum Column - By A.J. Kutchins - In its recent series of articles, the Daily Journal has done a fine job of bringing to light...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court will announce Thursday whether it thinks San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom went to...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge refused a prosecution request to revoke the bail of a teenager accused of rape Tuesday but ...

SANTA ANA - The plaintiffs' lawyer at the center of the University of California, Irvine, fertility scandal knowingly stole fr...

ATLANTA - The American Bar Association will ask Congress to block a plan that would require businesses charged with crimes to ...

LOS ANGELES - Former Stan Lee Media executives, including Clinton booster and ex-convict Peter F. Paul, manipulated stock in t...