SAN FRANCISCO - Habeas petitions denied by California state courts for being filed too late may still qualify for review by fe...

Forum: By Joseph R. Giannini Senate Bill 1782, which is being set for hearings before the California Senate Judiciary Committe...

Dicta: The Rodent One of many unintended, or at least undisclosed, responsibilities that goes along with being an attorney at ...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has pledged to help ensure that people unjustly convicted of crimes as a result of ...

SANTA ANA - Twelve Orange County jurors were geared up Monday to endure more than four months of testimony and evidence in a c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal civil rights commissioners say they are "appalled" by the number of civilian deaths at the hands of So...

Further establishing its foothold in San Diego, San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster has acquired two senior partners -...

In laying the groundwork for asylum, the lawyer for an Iraqi dissident Monday elicited testimony of two assassination attempts...

SACRAMENTO - One afternoon last spring, Attorney General Bill Lockyer delivered a public eulogy for slain peace officers outsi...

Forum: First Principles By John C. Eastman This is the final week of oral argument in what is shaping up to be one of the most...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the second floor of Oakland's aging post office at 13th and Alice streets, Judge Judith Ford of the Alameda...

SANTA ANA - An Anaheim gang member who went on a robbery and shooting spree with his father in 1997 was sentenced Friday to 47...

Five months after a 13-year-old Palmdale boy died in a schoolyard fight , the Los Angeles County district attorney's office ha...

When Kenneth R. Lamb went to Denmark for a week earlier this month, he packed essential supplies for a successful overseas tr...

Forum: By Doug Bandow As the presidential race moves into high gear, the candidates will be talking about everything from heal...

RIVERSIDE - A retired judge who presided over probate cases in Riverside County used his Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answe...

Pratitioner: Entertainment Law In the music business, the hits keep coming. And recently, so do the lawsuits. But these are no...

SANTA ANA - When Rus, Miliband & Smith and Sheppard, Mullen, Richter & Hampton face off in a recently filed wrongful t...

BOTTOM LINE Outsourcing information technology services means learning to evaluate vendors' qualifications. By Gary S. Wong X...

As though they were film critics, respondents to the Daily Journal's latest "L.A. Confidential" poll issued a resounding "thum...

The attorney who managed San Francisco-based Littler Mendelson for seven years until retiring in June is heading to Washingto...

VENTURA - You might not think that a woman with a net worth of as much as $500,000 would be an indigent defendant. Indeed, aft...

SANTA ANA - A slander lawsuit filed against Dr. Laura Schlessinger by Tom Moore, owner of Costa Mesa-based surf shop Beach Acc...

At some point in the typical environmental tort case, the judge has to decide the difference between sound science and junk sc...

Attorneys are often called upon to act as experts in a variety of litigation matters, in addition to testifying to the standar...

SAN FRANCISCO - Accusing plaintiffs and defense counsel of collusive self-dealing in a proposed $15 million class-action settl...

Litigation never provides a happy Hollywood ending for everyone because someone always loses. This time it was Raleigh Film an...

LAGUNA BEACH - An artist with the Festival of the Arts of Laguna Beach filed a lawsuit late Wednesday against the festival's b...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Seven more partners are defecting from Landels Ripley & Diamond this week as the 70-attorney San Francisc...

Donald W. Carlson dreamt of starting his own law firm with a few of his closest friends, of the flexibility and focus he could...