The notion that any cyberpaced power player in American politics today could maintain an "unfailingly sunny disposition" is so...

Money talks. That's the thrust of Monday's ruling by a divided California Supreme Court that companies cannot be forced to pay...

With pot a burning concern to many Californians, the decision to rule on medical marijuana could give high court a new meaning...

SACRAMENTO - Bruce McPherson, a moderate Republican lawmaker from Santa Cruz, expects to be appointed this week as the new cha...

The Rodent's satire seems subtle enough to get lost on some sensitive readers.

Looking to spur economic development in Los Angeles, a consortium of politicians and business members Monday urged tweaking th...

Despite support for the protection of crime victims' rights, the Crime Victims' Rights Amendment, which would guarantee victim...

California's Lanterman-Petrie-Short Act of 1969 was landmark legislation acknowledging that restrictions on liberty that resul...

The revised Local Bankruptcy Rules and associated forms are available for downloading from the court's Web site: www.cacb.usco...

Among actions announced Monday, Nov. 27, 2000 by the justices were:

Many people who need court orders in family-law matters either can't afford an attorney or don't want an attorney.

Spur of the moment speaking strategies are the solution to the holiday speaking blues.

As of Nov. 16, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy was the last New York firm to tack free money onto its California associates'...

One group that desperately needs access to justice is children. And one way to ensure this access is by giving courts the tool...

San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster plans to open its 18th office on Dec. 6, or shortly thereafter, in McLean, Va.'s,. Tys...

Friedemann O'Brien & Zarian's name just got a bit longer, thanks to Steven Goldberg. Goldberg has joined the Los Angeles-b...

Santa Clara County, the home of Silicon Valley, seems to have it all: money, fame, and an overabundance of residents who under...

On the first floor of what was once a television studio, near the corner of Vine Street and Fountain Avenue in Los Angeles, th...

Chatsworth's Luminent Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at about $144 million. The company's line of fiber ...

SAN JOSE - The disabled Alameda woman and her attorneys who lost her civil rights lawsuit against actor-director Clint Eastwoo...

Los Angeles' Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey has recruited the national adoption director of the Alliance For Childre...

VeriSign Inc. has bought GreatDomains.com for an undisclosed amount. VeriSign, based in Mountain View, provides security softw...

Dana was as happy as could be when she became the foster mother to a 2-year-old baby girl. She had no idea when the girl's mo...

The writer, a recent graduate of the University of San Francisco Law School, assisted this summer in the school's overseas pro...

This week, the Daily Journal devotes its pages to a discussion of access-to-justice issues. Coincidentally, the Supreme Court ...

I supported Proposition 36, the initiative that mandated treatment programs for first-time drug possessors. It is a needed fir...

The Shansby Group has acquired the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corp. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The ...

SonicWALL Inc. has acquired Phobos Corp. for $279 million in cash and stock. Phobos, based in Salt Lake City, makes Internet t...

Never in her wildest dreams did Julie Su expect that, her first year out of law school, she would be meeting clients held behi...

Tim Curry, partner in the Palo Alto office of San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, has represented high-tech compan...