Alameda County court workers and public defenders rallied Tuesday in a final attempt to save their departments from deep cuts ...

For many of Southern California's top bankruptcy firms these days, it's pretty much business as usual. Just a whole lot more o...

In the last decade, the phenomenal success of reality television has not only changed the face of entertainment, but also spun...

The recent economic collapse brought a cluster of festering fraud schemes into plain view. Now, firms are banking that their b...

John Quinn, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, Age: 58, Years as Managing Partner: 23, Practice Area: Litigation

Bruce Jeffer, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, Age: 67, Years as Managing Partner: 28, Practice Area: Business, speciali...

Greg Nitzkowski, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Age: 52, Years as Managing Partner: 10, Practice Area: Real esta...

Kenneth M. Doran, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Age: 54, Years as Managing Partner: 7, Practice Area: Corporate

There was little movement within the top half of the Daily Journal's list of Southern California's largest firms this year. Th...

The economic downturn has served as a catalyst for changes to the structure of the law firm and the legal business as a whole....

In our latest annual survey of Southern California's top law firms, the rankings largely held firm from the previous year, in ...

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Peter McBrien was disciplined - but not as harshly as had been recommended - for walkin...

Obama's efforts to ramp up antitrust enforcement could have major effects on California-based companies, write Thad Davis and ...

Compassion in the courts can only be achieved when jurists are unafraid to defend the Bill of Rights against the arrogance of ...

It costs more to defend patent troll claims than it does to buy them off, writes David Bohrer.

For the first time in six months, the consensus of law firm managing partners is that the worst of the recession is over, but ...

In "The Constitution in 2020" several scholars lay out their plan to bring the Constitution back from the dead, writes Matt Va...

David T. Bristow, a former county prosecutor, criminal defense attorney and civil litigator, has been appointed as a U.S. Magi...

Guy N. Halgren, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Age: 53, Years as Managing Partner: 8, Practice Area: Labor and E...

Students may be gone for the summer, but law school officials aren't pulling out the sunscreen and beach umbrellas just yet.

These are grim times for start-up biotech and life science companies. Yet, unlike the clean-tech industry, they aren't seeing ...

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, wants to end the Legal Services Corp.'s ban on legal nonprofits requesting attorney fees and fil...

Scott Drexel's actions as chief trial counsel sometimes weighed punishment above justice, writes Joel Drum.

Douglas E. Phillips discusses the legal uncertainties of Creative Commons licenses in his book "The Software License Unveiled:...

A federal jury took less than five hours to acquit three former Ralphs Grocery Co. executives and managers of charges alleging...

The recent swine flu outbreak is further proof that all American workers deserve paid sick leave, writes Judy Patrick.

The Los Angeles Film Festival screened a purported documentary on the plight of Dole plantation workers in Nicaragua despite a...

A key tenet of appellate practice can be summed up by the Rolling Stones song that declares "You can't always get what you wan...

Jonathan Rotter, a civil litigator, recalls how volunteering as a prosecutor opened his eyes to the good, bad and ugly of the ...

A deeply divided California Supreme Court made it easier Monday for prosecutors to hold multiple gang members responsible for ...