LOS ANGELES - Anthony Pellicano's attorney said he will file an appeal to try to knock out one of the firearms counts that led...

Steve Snyder spent 10 years resolving a messy insurance coverage dispute between Oakland's MacArthur Company and The Hartford ...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Last year's legislative session inaugurated more than 900 new laws. In th...

Forum Column - By Charles Bond - While Congress should have passed a Medicare drug benefit bill, no politician - or for that m...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Christina J. Imre and Jacqueline M. Jauregui - As many multistate employers are learning, C...

Forum Column - By Dilan Esper - I have seen few opinion pieces more wrongheaded than John Eastman's article titled "The U.S. C...

WASHINGTON - A leading liberal group on Friday charged that a number of President Bush's judicial nominees who now sit on the ...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - For a tenant facing eviction, budget cuts in the court system represent a horror story waiting t...

WASHINGTON - For Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, this has been a term in which that nasty word "recusal" keeps cropping ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sisterhood was in full bloom when San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris and acting police Chief Heathe...

LOS ANGELES - What if they opened the courts and no one came? In effect, that's what happened when Minnesota's new chief justi...

The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board will decide at its next meeting Thursday whether to appeal a decision by ...

REDWOOD CITY - If people in trouble want San Mateo Superior Court Judge Barbara Mallach to lend them a hand, she's willing - b...

LOS ANGELES - At the first of the year, federal court officials began putting into the regular assignment rotation the name of...

Employment Column - By J. Kevin Lilly - It will surprise no one that California charts its own course in defining an employee'...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Copyright owners recently suffered another setback in their battle again...

Forum Column - By Charles Hobson - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Illinois v. Lidster, 2004 U.S.LEXIS 656 (U.S. J...

SACRAMENTO - A state appeal court ruled Thursday that voters should have the right to decide the fate of a new law requiring C...

LOS ANGELES - Defendants do not have to provide discovery to prosecutors at hearings held to decide whether their probation sh...

WASHINGTON - Challenging a controversial law that limits federal judges' discretion in sentencing and requires reports to Cong...

LOS ANGELES - Services are scheduled for Saturday for Theodore G. Johnsen, a business attorney and adjunct professor at USC La...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether a nonprofit agency that provides services to d...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Health officials intentionally withheld information from an adoptive mother that would have warn...

SAN FRANCISCO - Although he never set foot in Marin County, a San Francisco drug dealer was properly tried there because he ma...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors involved in the murder case against actor Robert Blake are disputing that they allowed a book author...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stanislaus prosecutors may live to regret their decision to remove Judge Richard Arnason from presiding over t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The consumer bankruptcy bar reacted with outrage Thursday to reports out of Washington that House Republicans ...

LOS ANGELES - Signaling a breakdown in the year-old attempt to settle civil litigation over the Catholic Church sexual abuse s...

WASHINGTON - Delivering his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Bush put his administration at the center of a...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Job-bias statutes frequently put employers strivi...