Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Picture this. The trial is over. One of the parties was so eager to be involved that it ...

Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - No provision in the Constitution says that a citizen must never be offended. With the priv...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Scott P. Ward - The "offer to compromise" under Code of Civil Procedure Section 998 has become ...

LOS ANGELES - Retired workers' compensation Judge Ernest Patrick Kiernan has died at the age of 82. Known in the courtroom as ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Daily Journal staff writer Cheryl Romo has won a first place public service reporting award in the A...

LOS ANGELES - Eighteen lawyers in the state have signed up to run for five open seats on the State Bar Board of Governors, inc...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that allows Los Angeles prosecutors to proceed with their cases against priests accused of molesting ch...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Remy, a pioneering Sacramento environmental lawyer who led the nation's first successful ballot initi...

LOS ANGELES - In a year in which state budget cuts are said to imperil the health of the court system, the California Judges A...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city must grant public access to previously secret environmental documents involving plans to expand San ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just one month after she took over from Teveia Barnes as executive director of the Bar Association of San Fra...

SAN FRANCISCO - The consensus at San Francisco's Hall of Justice is that Superior Court Judge Kay Tsenin today will dismiss f...

SAN DIEGO - California cities won a small victory Thursday in their efforts to stem the gun trade when a Southern California f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mary C. Morgan, a former San Francisco municipal court judge who was the nation's first openly lesbian jurist...

SAN JOSE - Specialized domestic violence courts have become common fixtures in the state's legal system over the past decade,...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted 4-3 Thursday to uphold a death sentence even though the defendant's attorn...

LOS ANGELES - Saying budget shortfalls had reduced the courts to "a Third World country stage," Los Angeles Superior Court off...

LOS ANGELES - In continued fallout from the corporate scandals that have tainted Enron Corp. and other companies, the Securiti...

LOS ANGELES - Department 414 at the Children's Courthouse in Monterey Park is a showcase, the place where presiding judges of ...

CERRITOS - Cip Two LLC sold 8,400 square feet of manufacturing space at 16627 Parkside Ave. for $670,000. Jim Kuhne and Sam C...

BAKERSFIELD - Elizabeth Newton purchased an 11,150-square-foot industrial building in the Stockdale Industrial Park at 4301 Y...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Frederic G. Ludwig III - Do California state courts have concurrent subject matter j...

Forum Column - Marjorie Cohn - The Vietnam War was justified by the U.S. government as necessary to save the Vietnamese peopl...

Forum Column - By Ralph A. Rossum - President Bush's political opponents will stop at nothing, it seems, to deprive him of the...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has temporarily banned the Los Angeles Police Department from conducting further parole and prob...

SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday appointed two former county bar association presidents to the San Diego Superior Cour...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyer Arna H. Slotnik was dismissed from the defense of Robert Blake's bodyguard and handyman Earle Caldwell, s...

SAN FRANCISCO - A consumer advocacy group, backed by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, asked utility regulators Tue...

LOS ANGELES - Two former executives of Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. have sued the Securities and Exchange Commission, s...

Reporter's Notebook - By Erik Cummins - Once one of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's biggest rainmakers, Stephen Snyder now i...