Forum Column - By Bruce G. Iwasaki - President Bush supports the Legal Services Corp., which allocates funds to 179 locally r...

Focus Column - By Robin J. Samuel - Is religious discrimination in the workplace ever legal? The answer, it turns out, is yes,...

Forum Column - By Rita Miller In May, the first jurors began arriving for the "one trial" system of jury service in Los Angele...

SAN JOSE - Michelangelo Delfino and Mary Day, the two research scientists who were found liable last year for defaming their f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for the city of Oakland expressed confidence Tuesday that the city will soon be able to enforce its ...

SACRAMENTO - Richard Barber is on a mission. Tales his great-aunt recounted about growing up as a slave on a North Carolina to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two senior attorney positions that were targeted for elimination from the San Francisco public defender's staf...

LOS ANGELES - After nine years of litigation, a retired Huntington Beach internist has accepted a $350,000 settlement of his c...

Forum Column - By Roy Ulrich - Gov. Gray Davis has been raising money from private donors for his political campaigns for almo...

SAN DIEGO - Comparisons of fibers, dog hair and human hair become more significant when all three forms of evidence are found ...

LOS ANGELES - Miriam Aroni Krinsky, president of the city's Ethics Commission and the executive director of Dependency Court L...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a setback for the media's First Amendment protections, a federal appeals court Tuesday gave Suzuki Motors ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Biotech giant Genentech Corp. suffered another major defeat in court Tuesday as a federal judge ruled the comp...

LOS ANGELES - State Bar investigators have seized the law practice of a Woodland Hills probate attorney, alleging that he has ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge on Tuesday seemed ready to let a stripper who says she was raped while working at the M...

SAN FRANCISCO - A deputy public defender and a deputy sheriff painfully recounted Tuesday the caustic remarks and humiliating ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Linda Stanley, the federal government's chief bankruptcy watchdog in Northern California and Nevada, has been ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard is changing its name in conjunction with the acquisition of...

SAN JOSE - The state and two Northern California counties can be forced to pay up to $50 million in damages to residents and b...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a reversal of fortune for Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, the firm has scored a $975 million settlement tha...

Forum Column - By Myron Dean Quon - During the month of June, people in California have celebrated lesbian, gay, bisexual and ...

LOS ANGELES - Family, friends and co-workers are mourning the loss of Enid Davis, a beloved longtime Daily Journal employee wh...

LOS ANGELES - Ernest A. Lopez would like to think that he was a fair and compassionate jurist to those who appeared before him...

RIVERSIDE - A Corona woman who left an infant in her van for several hours on a sweltering summer day was sentenced Tuesday to...

Focus Colum - By Greg Short - Whether negotiating an information-technology outsourcing contract or a business-process outsour...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yet another legal scholar is heralding the demise of copyright law as we know it. And if there's anything to t...

RIVERSIDE - Accused murderer Robert Lee Williams has managed to delay his trial for seven years, burning through four lawyers ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A defining moment for Associate Justice Maria P. Rivera of the 1st District Court of Appeal came at the Broadw...

LOS ANGELES - South Korean citizen Je Ho Lim, frustrated in his attempts to purchase the "Golf.TV" domain name from California...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Monday approved a Proposition 65 settlement with the maker of valves used in water pipe...