Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Our system of justice is founded, in large part, on the premise that a cause brought befor...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Jason W. Armstrong - Jon Velie isn't an American Indian. But the Norman, Okla.-based attorney...

"With your support, you can help us continue to investigate the murders of Laci and Conner Peterson so that we can free the ma...

LOS ANGELES - A gang member convicted of murdering the granddaughter of Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks cannot be sl...

SAN FRANCISCO - When companies commit fraud, even if it doesn't result in property loss or bodily injury, they are subject to ...

SACRAMENTO - Before he took the bench, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Robert C. Hight helped broker some of the biggest envir...

Teenagers Justin Black and Jesse Holcomb were good friends. They went to the same schools, and they frequently socialized toge...

SAN FRANCISCO - After months of trading arguments in written briefs, lawyers crowded into a San Francisco courtroom Wednesday ...

INDUSTRIAL COMPTON - Rob Neal purchased a 100,000-square-foot industrial building at 18020 S. Santa Fe Ave. from Fal Santa Fe...

SACRAMENTO - A day before the high-profile court battle over same-sex marriage got under way in San Francisco, a Sacramento ap...

Focus Column - Securities Law - By Jennifer Kirk - Are the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ shareholder approval rules for e...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court granted review Wednesday of an appellate court ruling allowing the newly incorpor...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Alexander R. Early III, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge. Early died Dec...

Column By Garry Abrams - Porn over the Internet. What a concept. Jaded, surf-savvy Americans may barely bat a jaundiced eye at...

LOS ANGELES - Some plaintiffs' lawyers who have sued the Los Angeles Archdiocese over clergy sexual abuse have begun quietly d...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Mateo Superior Court Commissioner Richard DuBois was trying to piece together the facts of a complicated -...

SAN FRANCISCO - An unprecedented Bush administration settlement of an endangered species case could harm efforts to protect wi...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego Superior Court judge approved Wednesday settlement of litigation that requires R.J. Reynolds Tobacco C...

SAN FRANCISCO - Civil liberties groups suffered a setback Tuesday in their challenge to the anti-terrorism law that criminali...

INDUSTRIAL NAPA - Bedford Property Investors Inc. sold a 120,157-square-foot warehouse at 901 Kaiser Road to an undisclosed bu...

LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday ordered Verizon to pay $88 million to California consumers for charging rental fees on obsolete ...

SACRAMENTO - The California Nurses Association sued Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Tuesday, accusing him of illegally enacting em...

WASHINGTON - Two prominent abortion foes will join the highly partisan Senate Judiciary Committee when the new Congress begins...

Focus Column - Maritime Law - By Timothy R. Lord - On Nov. 9, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court in Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. ...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - In the aftermath of the Scott Peterson trial, two leading Bay Area newspapers have writt...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Law schools that oppose the military's discrimination against gays and lesbians won a ma...

SACRAMENTO - Ever since Christopher Klein fell into bankruptcy law he's been passionate about it - and willing to ruffle feath...

LOS ANGELES - The chief of the State Bar's discipline prosecution office, Mike Nisperos Jr., will not seek a second four-year...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even though a Sonoma grape grower lost $2 million when the state agriculture department wrongly withheld qual...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel ruled Tuesday that a Bakersfield cop killer cannot avoid a death penalty retrial on d...