While the Tejon Ranch Co. signed a deal with environmental groups to ward off challenges to its development plans, smaller hol...

In the midst of financial uncertainty and after months of criticism about its handling of disciplinary actions, the State Bar ...

Discussions between a lawyer and client about a mediation can be used as evidence in a legal malpractice trial, a divided Cour...

There's a paradox in John C. Yoo's filing this week to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals protesting a lower court's move t...

Ruthann Ziegler and Kevin Gilbert of Meyers Nave explain why cities must work on reviving faltering redevelopment projects.

Intel Corp. on Thursday settled a four-year-old antitrust lawsuit filed by its rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., that has be...

The federal government released documents detailing negotiations that led to telecommunications companies obtaining retroactiv...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

The fallout from what detractors allege was the politicization of the Department of Justice under President George W. Bush has...

D. Gregory Valenza of Shaw Valenza lays out the law for commuting, working at home, on-call time and other work performed duri...

Heather Mewes of Fenwick & West explains why having juries decide the factual issues underlying obviousness in patent case...

The U.S. Supreme Court will meet Friday to decide whether to hear a case about whether a judge or jury should decide if a pate...

A San Francisco appellate attorney is raising the stakes in his war against the judges who refused to overturn his client's co...

K.C. Victor of Victor Legal Solutions believes that cosmopolitan lawyers basically fall into three practice categories.

Michael Shonafelt of Parker Milliken says Sprint PCS Assets LLC v. City of Palos Verdes Estates deals a major blow to w...

Federal regulators subpoenaed Nixon Peabody and a former partner as part of an inquiry into whether a broker improperly transf...

The presiding judge of the Los Angeles County court system has quietly been meeting with some of the region's biggest law firm...

Fred C. Zacharias 1953 - 2009

A Court of Appeal has affirmed a trial court ruling exonerating Best, Best & Krieger on allegations of malicious prosecuti...

In a major class action case, the U.S. Supreme Court looks likely to reverse a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that m...

The Daily Journal recently published a two-part series addressing what standard courts should apply to 'move away' parents in ...

Stacy Phillips, Karnig Greg Dukmajian and Jacqueline Shaprow of Phillips, Lerner, Lauzon & Jamra suggest a new standard f...

Stacy D. Phillips, Karnig Greg Dukmajian and Jacqueline Shaprow shine light on Niko v. Foreman and child custody battles.

An attempt to find a home for Los Angeles' garbage by building the nation's largest landfill near Joshua Tree National Park wa...

A Beverly Hills realtor, who beat back numerous charges at trial alleging he was part of a $40 million mortgage fraud, struck ...

A San Diego law librarian whose specialty was helping self-represented litigants with appeals got some real-world practice arg...

Federal regulators took the rare step Tuesday of charging a San Francisco brokerage firm with "failing to reasonably supervise...

In a blistering dissent, the judges say their colleagues showed insufficient deference to the trial judge, and published the f...

Five more lawyers accused of cheating homeowners desperate to modify mortgages have lost or given up their licenses to practic...

Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian helped guide the sale of AdMob, a San Mateo mobile advertising co...