Adult prisons are no place for children. The Daily Journal recently profiled Zena Long, 16, one of four girls incarcerated in ...
When Lee Jay Berman thinks about alternative dispute resolution, he thinks big. "I like working with complex, multiparty cases...
SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for the woman who claims she was sexually harassed by the top aide to Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown s...
Constitutional Law
High-Tech Surveillance Raises Fourth Amendment Questions
By Columnist
Sitting in a squad car, police scan your house with an Agema 210 thermal imager. The device, originally developed by the milit...
Clients measure a lawyer's worth in many ways. In Paul D. Scott's case, it was in boxes. When client Daniel Dean, 34, came to ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Holland & Knight last week added two partners to its real estate practice group. R...
Judges and Judiciary
Flying Superior Court Judge Pilots His Retirement
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Like most people, Paul Metzler keeps waiting for a sunny day. And after March 16, it can even be a sunny weekday...
LOS ANGELES - A wake for Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Gary T. Rowse will take place Monday. Rowse, whose work on the Littl...
Criminal
DA Asks to Use Orange County Resources for His Foundation
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, under fire for allegedly misusing public funds for his private fo...
Constitutional Law
Court Shields Library From Liability Over Internet Porn
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In the first such ruling in the country, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday that city libraries are not lia...
SAN FRANCISCO - Closely adhering to appellate court orders, a federal judge on Tuesday gave Napster Inc. a 72-hour deadline to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Art or Commerce? The California Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the boundary between the two while consid...
LOS ANGELES - Nancy Mintie and Mark Adams seemed like the perfect team when they got together in March 1999 to help Mintie's p...
E-mail users send and receive countless messages every day. Many messages are just so much junk, and I, for one, routinely del...
SAN JOSE -- A federal judge dealt the fatal blow Monday to a complaint by a former senior deputy in the San Jose city attorney...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the wake of the appellate reversal of his arson-for-profit conviction, retired San Francisco police officer...
When I read Judge Robert Beezer's opinion in the Napster case, I was, to borrow a phrase from the late Hubert Horatio Humphrey...
Gov. Gray Davis on Monday appointed Alan Skobin, vice president and general counsel of Galpin Motors Inc., to the Department o...
An attorney who was not involved in representing his former firm's client is not automatically disqualified when, with a new f...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area environmental groups recently received a painful double lesson in the legal reality that even the mos...
SAN FRANCISCO - Charges of "politics" entered San Francisco's fatal dog mauling case Monday, when a judge reversed a court ord...
WASHINGTON - For "adult" businesses in Los Angeles, having a book-and-video retail store in the same space as a video arcade i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fighting ethics charges arising from her rancorous but unsuccessful reelection campaign, former Sonoma County ...
SAN DIEGO - U.S. Rep. Bob Filner has asked District Attorney Paul Pfingst to criminally charge five companies that sell electr...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge has tentatively ruled that Healthcare Partners Medical Group does not qualif...
The state Supreme Court on Monday rejected a convicted drug abuser's claim that a prosecutor committed prejudicial misconduct ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto's Cooley Godward announced Monday that well-known New York corporate lawyer Daniel Mummery is the fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the nearly three weeks since its opening, the New York office of Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles lawyer pleaded guilty Monday to money laundering and a tax charge for helping to hide some of the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a jury has a very limited role when a defendant challenges pros...