Business lawyer Edwin B. Reeser tackles the dilemma of large firms facing financial problems and the past decade's basic consu...

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken said the state's method for determining which in-home health services to cut was likely to ...

Philip Thompson of Nelsen, Thompson, Pegue & Thornton expands on when insurers must pay independent defense costs. ...

The San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster is the latest firm to trim starting salaries from $160,000 to $145,000. ...

Darren McKinney of the American Tort Reform Association says the Chatsworth Metrolink crash should not be used to bankrupt emp...

Shepard Fairey's admission he lied about the photo used to craft an iconic image of President Obama is an embarrassment for tw...

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A San Bernardino County jury awarded a Fullerton man $21 million for injuries he sustained in a freeway crash with a cleaning ...

Two California attorneys successfully argued that the oil giant was responsible for contaminating the New York City groundwate...

The No. 1 concern among general counsels today is controlling how much they spend on outside counsel, according to a new repor...

The Justice Department on Monday formalized its policy shift away from prosecuting medical marijuana in California and a judge...

General Counsel Kerian Bunch of Esurance Inc. - San Francisco ...

The Daily Journal recently published four articles on the future of alternative fee arrangements co-authored by a Fortune 500 ...

Patrick McKenna, Edwin Reeser, Jeffrey Carr and Patrick Lamb conclude their series on law firms and alternative billing. ...

Jeffrey Carr, Patrick Lamb, Patrick L. McKenna and Edwin B. Reeser look at alternative fee arrangements from yet another lens....

Patrick Lamb, Patrick McKenna, Jeffrey Carr and Edwin Reeser present another approach to initiating alternative fee arrangemen...

Edwin B. Reeser, Patrick Lamb, Patrick J. McKenna and Jeffrey Carr join forces to address how to approach this issue with BigL...

Dennis Cahillane of Knobbe Martens talks about how the law firm is operating in the midst of a recession. ...

Bryan A. Liang and Judith S.P. McCarter of Cal. Western School of Law write on how to proactively fight against healthcare fra...

How did the telecom industry win immunity for its role in the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping? Tony West, who ov...

The first official meeting of Thelen's creditors ended in a fracas when two of the firm's largest creditors attempted to oust ...

Due to staff shortages, the California Attorney General's Office said it declined to represent state departments and agencies ...

First in a two-part series. A Daily Journal investigation finds that disabled workers are denied the disability coverage their...

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

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Entrepreneurs are starting to see encouraging signs in the market for venture capital funding, but the fierce competition for ...

Two recent cases illustrate a growing dispute in the exploding multi-billion dollar videogame entertainment industry: the righ...

Andrea Bryan's courtroom seems to attract high-profile cases, which she handles with aplomb and professionalism.

Dole Food Co. is withdrawing a defamation suit against a filmmaker who made a documentary about alleged harms to Nicaraguan pl...

Philip Morris USA on Thursday bowed out from the war against San Francisco's ban on cigarettes in drug stores, leaving Walgree...