A private investment firm has agreed to buy San Diego's Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp., operator of the Souplantation and Sweet...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - During the boom, technology was king and anyone trying to battle indigenous Silicon Valley firms...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By William G. Short - Insurers should take heed, if they have not already, of a little-noticed ...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Michael J. Roberts - Consider a common situation: An employment mediation t...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Marisa Gonzalez - Should courts be permitted to require mothers who allege domestic violen...

SAN FRANCISCO - In Dennis Caeton's courtroom, kids come first. That's the consensus among attorneys and social workers who hav...

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has refused to reinstate a lawsuit filed against a Los Angeles-area Jewish Community Center by ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County courts are gearing up for a possible "massive" wildcat strike by sheriff's deputies Tuesday. ...

WOODLAND - Yolo County Superior Court Judge Arvid Johnson is a conservative, Baptist, former prosecutor who enjoys small-town ...

Reporter's Notebook - By John Roemer - Incumbent District Attorney Terence Hallinan's paradoxical campaign strategy is to unde...

SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty police officers charged with beating two men on Union Street last year have subpoenaed Dist...

LOS ANGELES - Nearing the end of a typically busy day in Referee Anthony A. Trendacosta's juvenile dependency courtroom one da...

Column By Garry Abrams - It's the money. No, it's the trash. The preceding is the short, uncomplicated, relatively nonparanoid...

SAN FRANCISCO - A secret federal grand jury has subpoenaed fingerprints and DNA from former members of the Black Panthers, Wea...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent San Jose labor lawyer and union organizer Elliot Wax has died of heart failure. He was 90. Wax, who ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Blazing down a busy street in their shiny tricked-out Honda Civics, David Eugene Bradley and Magin Alvarez ...

Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Kevin Kroeker and Gretchen Meisel LaChance - Long-awaited regulations from the state Depar...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - California's official unemployment rate as of August was 6.6 percent, or 1,157,500 Cali...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Interviewing by videoconference is becoming more common as law firms and corporat...

SACRAMENTO - Arnold Schwarzenegger's election as California's next governor could be a deadly blow to the gubernatorial aspira...

CLAREMONT - City officials must confer with police bargaining unions before ordering officers to collect data on the race and ...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sherman W. Smith Sr., a do...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Warren G. Greene will take place Saturday in Pasadena. G...

SAN DIEGO - When Casey Gwinn was prosecuting domestic-violence cases, he occasionally voiced frustration at the plight of batt...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court seemed wary Thursday of allowing people to be sued for making reports to police, ev...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser was the judge who couldn't say no, according to a transcript...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has delivered a major setback to efforts by state Attorney General Bill Lock...

SAN BERNARDINO - A civil practitioner for 20 years, San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Donald R. Alvarez discovered, in his f...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an apparent effort to fill all judicial vacancies before he leaves office, Gov. Gray Davis named three new ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Finding "hopeless ambiguity" in the statute, a state appeal court Thursday voided a law that requires homeless...