Forum Column - By Bill Lockyer - Critics of the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act rely on inflammat...

SANTA MARIA - Santa Barbara District Attorney Thomas W. Sneddon Jr. denied repeatedly Monday that he ever considered the possi...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Clara Torres moved to the United States from her native Colombia last year, she didn't speak a word of En...

Forum Column - By Lawrence C. Levine - Thursday's state Supreme Court decision regarding San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's au...

Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - Guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment, the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses is so ...

Film Review - "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" - By Stephen Zager - With each viewing of a new political documen...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Qin Shi - Newness, inventiveness, and usefulness constitute the foundation of patent...

SAN FRANCISCO - Upwardly Global hasn't placed lawyers with any major U.S. law firms, but it expects to soon, according to prog...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran criminal defense attorney Harry Weiss, whose career spanned six decades, died Aug. 12 in Chatsworth. He ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Pillsbury Winthrop has added its first securities litigation and white-collar defense ...

SANTA ANA - Richard C. White, an attorney who helped open the Orange County office of O'Melveny & Myers, has died after a ...

The mother of a boy fatally injured in a schoolyard brawl cannot recover damages from the Palmdale School District, a state ap...

SACRAMENTO - The leader of the state Senate intends to shelve his proposal to overturn a California Supreme Court decision and...

WASHINGTON - Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is making a special contribution to the Supreme Cour...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Margaret Morrow's 163-page ruling in the matter of U.S. v. Braswell hardly qualifies ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Raven, a former president of the American Bar Association, a pre-eminent figure in San Francisco's anti...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal courts have no authority to interfere with the secretary of state's decision to extradite fugitives to...

War crimes. Government conspiracy. Military scapegoats. Hidden intelligence information. Russell Hayman's latest case sounds m...

Riverside County is on its way to protecting 146 species and creating a 500,000-acre wildlife reserve, thanks in part to legal...

Veronica Mesa brushes her hair away from her face, her voice faltering only slightly as she addresses the crowd sitting before...

The former head of the Los Angeles business practice group at Jones Day jumped to Fulbright & Jaworski on July 23. Corpora...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Kate Fitzgerald - According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, orientation means "the act or...

Ora Fisher has replaced Peter Kerman as managing partner of Latham & Watkins' Menlo Park office. Kerman was elevated to gl...

Attorneys searching for an arbitrator or mediator these days can rely on a new brand of word of mouth: Internet message boards...

Forum Column - By Saul Landau and Farrah Hassen - Question from the 9/11 Commission Report: "How can the United States and its...

Forum Column - By Robert Harris - Public support for Proposition 215 (the 1996 medical-marijuana access initiative) has risen ...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Insurance carriers frequently turn to outside counsel, or internal claims a...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Friday reinstated suits claiming Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca illegally held thre...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County and its prosecutors and public defenders are squaring off in a multi-front campaign to determine...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Eron Ben-Yehuda - Anyone craving candy that "swims"? How about an exercise system for the hot...