LOS ANGELES - For the homeless, the Drop-In Center is one of the last places to get a bed on Los Angeles' Skid Row. Unlike the...

The Daily Journal recognizes the state's top neutrals. ...

LOS ANGELES - Litigants and lawyers who regularly do business in San Bernardino County Superior Court have filed a civil right...

LOS ANGELES - Even before merger talks between Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan and Cooley Godward Kronish died last month...

Garry Abrams was the only journalist I've ever known in 40 years in the publishing business who got impeached as editor of his...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe is fighting attempts at being deposed in a lawsuit that alleges local ju...

When is being convicted not the same as committing a crime? When you're an immigrant who has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor...

BAKERSFIELD - Claiming that the local newspaper has "raised journalistic lying to an art form," Kern County's district attorne...

I beg to disagree with Elizabeth A. Moreno (LADJ, Oct. 10, "L.A. Court Must Do Better to Be Inclusive, Equal on Mediators"). ...

Known for his compassion, San Diego County Superior Court Judge Alvin E. Green Jr. is making his mark in drug court, where he ...

LOS ANGELES - Ted Marx was one of the highest-performing commissioned sales executives at Storage Technology Corp. But in 2001...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney and television commentator Daniel Horowitz lost his wife to a teenage killer a year ago, and he talke...

SAN FRANCISCO - A deal's a deal, a Sacramento judge has ruled, even if it means certain smog-causing agents will stay in Calif...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's recently fired litigation cost manager has accused the county counsel's office of manipulat...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the rumor started buzzing around the Internet earlier this month that Google was negotiating to buy YouTu...

Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard W. Stanford Jr.'s gruff exterior reveals an independent mind, a focus on fairness a...

FORUM COLUMN - By Bruce W. Beach - Playing off the national discussion on the proper limitations of the power of eminent domai...

FORUM COLUMN - By Peter Scheer - Attorney General Bill Lockyer wasted no time in indicting former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman P...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Kenneth B. Bley and Andrew K. Fogg - Parties to a number of different kinds of agreements often include prov...

SAN FRANCISCO - Legal malpractice defense lawyer Pamela Phillips never intended for a courtesy visit to Howard Rice Nemerovski...

A Los Angeles judge has ordered the state to immediately resume its evaluations of severely disabled foster children so hundre...

LOS ANGELES - Debra Wong Yang will leave the Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office with a mixed legacy that includes significant ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Tuesday that the father of a murder victim cannot take cont...

SAN FRANCISCO - Facing ethics violations that could end her judicial career, Santa Barbara County Judge Diana R. Hall said Tue...

SAN JOSE - Another general counsel has lost his job, as two more Silicon Valley technology companies blamed their lawyers for ...

SANTA MARIA - As a young lawyer, Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge James F. Rigali decided that working in a big firm in a bi...

FORUM COLUMN - By David Glazier - The recent Military Commission Act, intended to bring the Guantanamo tribunals into conforma...

COLUMN - Rick Kennedy - In this, the year of the behemoth buyout, a $1.6 billion deal isn't the bombshell it used to be. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the opening day of an alleged cop killer's trial, a prosecutor told a San Francisco jury Monday that gang m...

WASHINGTON - The city of Berkeley received welcome news from the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday when the justices announced they...