SAN FRANCISCO - A defendant cannot be placed on special terms of probation if the conditions relate to a criminal charge that...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The Swift Boat controversy is being reincarnated. A University of California, Davis, political scie...

SANTA ANA - A state appeals court has ruled that police had no right to search an Orange County man for explosives even though...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors should apply their own lives' lessons as they ponder a defendant's fate. So a judge's contrary instruc...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Commissioner Matthew Gary has set his sights high ever since he recognized in grade sc...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Sony Corp. of America signed a 10-year, $10.65 million lease for 43,519 square feet of research and de...

LOS ANGELES - Wiseguy, eh? Ruling reversed, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Hartford Insurance Co. eye-poked Los Angeles Superior Court Jud...

SAN FRANCISCO - A female bartender at a Nevada casino who refused to wear makeup on the job cannot pursue her sex discriminat...

LOS ANGELES - In the latest blow to the pharmaceutical industry, a 7-year-old girl sued Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday, say...

Focus Column - International Law - By John F. McKenzie - The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. Sections 78dd-1 et seq.,...

Focus Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The Scott Peterson murder trial captivated the nation and received extensive media attenti...

Focus Column - By Greg Lukianoff - For those of you who are concerned about the state of free expression on campus, I would li...

Letter to the Editor - In his letter to the editor ("Ex-DA Teaches 'Miranda' Accurately," Dec. 27 Daily Journal), Richard Chry...

Letter to the Editor - Richard Chrystie's impassioned defense of the hiring of Devalis Rutledge by the Los Angeles County dist...

SAN JOSE - Ron Del Pozzo was elected to the Santa Clara County bench a little over two years ago, and he hasn't stopped runnin...

A state Supreme Court ruling that companies who commit fraud can be hit with punitive damages even in the absence of property ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco writer pleaded guilty Tuesday to stalking a Bingham McCutchen partner by impersonating...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Bradford Andrews didn't think much the first time he found his "Get Out of Jail Free" novelty candy bar o...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2004, the state Supreme Court and the state appellate courts rendere...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sexual predators must be treated better than criminal defendants while authorities determine whether they sho...

SACRAMENTO - Sharon Arkin grew up on a chicken ranch in Orange County and somehow wound up a Democrat in that Republican stro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Glenn Oleon's best experience since taking the Alameda County bench 18 months ago was when an 11-year-old gir...

The Los Angeles Times has filed suit to obtain audiotapes and other papers documenting two secret meetings the County Board o...

LOS ANGELES - The state's worker's compensation system has won a $14.6 million default judgment against two Rancho Cucamonga ...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Who works obsessively in a high-rise, suit-and-tie gulag and delights in making associates and law ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration dominated the agenda for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2004, by sheer volume of cases a...

When Dawn Steele moved to Pillsbury Winthrop's Costa Mesa office in 2001, she saw only one thing missing from her new home: la...

This holiday season, the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices of Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif have planned so...

SAN FRANCISCO - India does, indeed, have a spy agency known as RAW. You can look it up on the Internet. That's apparently what...

A San Francisco jury dealt a heavy blow to a Bay Area information technology consulting company, awarding former employee Anni...