SAN FRANCISCO - Charges that a former San Francisco health commissioner intentionally infected two men with HIV were dismissed...

SAN FRANCISCO - With the state facing a budget meltdown and the courts an easy target for major cuts next year, Chief Justice ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Five years ago, prosecutors said, Wayne Adam Ford walked into a Northern California sheriff's station and tol...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alfred Dyer's time was almost up. The convicted murderer had just about exhausted his appeals, losing a 2-1 9t...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court indicated Tuesday that it will allow prosecutors to use in trials both evidence and statements ...

LOS ANGELES - Friday was a momentous day for Jose G. Medina. The 26-year old caught his first DUI at age 18, got shot in the h...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY CENTURY CITY - The 1901 Avenue of the Stars office building has leased its Suite 1500 for $1.5 million to K...

LOS ANGELES - Arthur William "Bill" Brown Jr., who practiced as a corporate attorney at the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mu...

WASHINGTON - Sounding incredulous and sometimes angry, the Supreme Court justices on Monday indicated they will overturn the d...

LOS ANGELES - One of 16 women who accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of sexual misbehavior during the recall campaign filed suit Mo...

LOS ANGELES - A once-prominent personal injury attorney convicted of bilking clients with disabilities of a combined $2.5 mill...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether a judge must advise defendants that they will not be ab...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. attorney's office acknowledged Monday that the federal grand jury probe of alleged civil rights viola...

LOS ANGELES - The second phase of a trial in which workers are accusing Unocal Corp. of human rights violations in the constru...

Column By Garry Abrams - The state of California just missed a chance to reduce its budget deficit by $9. That's right. By exp...

FAIRFIELD - Solano County Superior Court Judge Harry Kinnicutt is a tall man, who lawyers say presides with a short fuse. He l...

SAN FRANCISCO - The embattled compromise plan to resolve Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s bankruptcy was ripped Monday by a key ...

LOS ANGELES - Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Ethics Commission fined City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa $5,100, the amo...

Forum Column - By Todd J. Wenzel - The San Francisco Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance was adopted in J...

A Fresno jury awarded $2.4 million in compensatory damages last month to the family of a woman who died as a result of alleged...

Venture capitalists have poured $30 million into Saegis Pharmaceuticals Inc., bolstering its efforts to develop new drugs to i...

Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - Here's one for the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction file: A jury in Galveston, Texas, recently acq...

As counsel for Dr. Seuss Enterprises, La Jolla attorney Karl ZoBell works to protect the creations of the beloved children's a...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - As Daily Journal EXTRA scoured the state for holiday reading recommendations, we had to wonder w...

Like a proud parent, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth has guided Powerwave Technologies Inc. as it has grown and matured. T...

Equal parts Zen master, consultant, visionary, taskmaster and best friend, executive coaches, long a staple of corporate Ameri...

Column - ADR Strategy - By Lee Jay Berman - A bright line differentiates client advocacy in mediation from other forms of clie...

After 20 years, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner John Ladner has stepped down from the bench. Ladner retired Nov. 7. Hi...

When the three founders of the Women's Law Center established the organization in 1989, it was the only center dedicated solel...

Motown phenomenon and American music icon Stevie Wonder made a surprise appearance at the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law...