Almost 40 years after officials discovered that the toxic liquid they had been dumping in a Riverside County canyon was seepin...

In an 11th hour decision, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has issued a new rule that finds defendants in immigration cas...

As Congress works to draft an economic stimulus plan that could cost more than $700 billion, senators on the Judiciary Committ...

A lawyer from San Diego's Casey Gerry has been reappointed to the 11-member San Diego Small Business Advisory Board.

A group of vets filed suit in federal court in San Francisco against the Defense Dept, CIA and the U.S. Army, claiming that th...

Duane T. Neary moves on to family law court after tackling traffic disputes, misdemeanor trials and drug cases during his ni...

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed in no mood to adopt a strict new disqualification rule that would bar attorne...

Daily Journal columnist Martin Berg writes an appreciation of the art of Camilo Cruz. By day, Cruz is a community relations ad...

Seyfarth Shaw has acquired the Irvine-based immigration law firm of Angelo A. Paparelli, a prominent lawyer in U.S. business i...

San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Teri Jackson Wednesday disqualified Robert Amparan from defending alleged MS-13 gang...

All parties in litigation should be well-informed of their rights — then do what they think is right regardless of them, write...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the 15 bills that comprised a package addressing the state's budget crisis, say...

American technology companies driven offshore by inadequate U.S. immigration policies increasingly elect "nearshoring" to Cana...

An Obama administration will move the whole country forward when it taps the full potential of our women, writes Linda Tarr-Wh...

Brocade Communications Systems' claim that its former chief executive officer violated the federal Racketeering Influenced and...

After decades of fruitless letter-writing campaigns and public hearings, a Los Angeles man became lead plaintiff in an ongoing...

Poor patients who paid discounted fees to Bay Area hospitals claim the city and county of San Francisco still charge them too ...

Founding fathers knew how to go about limiting powers.

Venable has nabbed a former Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp partner to co-chair its national intellectual property group in Lo...

During eight-plus weeks of his trial, Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's defense team offered jurors scant explanation for th...

Jamie A. Jacobs-May puts her organizational skills to work as Santa Clara County's new presiding judge. ...

An apparent loophole in the binding arbitration agreement was discovered in the case of a Los Angeles County employee who sued...

Privacy issues took the field today as the California Supreme Court referees a dispute over the NFL’s policy of frisking fans ...

Though third-party candidates played far smaller roles than in previous elections, third parties still play a vital role in ou...

False or damaging advertising can trigger a number of insurance liability issues, writes Peter S. Selvin. - Focus Column ...

Asking the Supreme Court to invalidate Prop. 8 undermines respect for law and the courts, writes David Llewellyn. - Forum Colu...

Stephen A. Leventhal, the prosecutor in a high-profile lewd conduct case against a city official and a longtime commissioner o...

A South Korean man who has spent a decade battling his deportation is now asking the California Supreme Court to step in. ...

James Aaron Pflaster, a Los Angeles personal injury and worker's compensation lawyer who specialized in helping Spanish-speaki...

Prominent San Diego trial lawyer David S. Casey Jr. will head Sen. Dianne Feinstein's vetting committee for nominees to the fe...