After a two-year legal battle, a group of Buddhists will be able to build their temple in Garden Grove, under a deal with the ...

According to a lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of current and former employees of the L.A. Times, “Sam Zell’s illegal and irre...

This year, we are focusing on the lawyers and judges who, through their work, are shaping our future: what kind of air we will...

Biographies of the Top 100

The List of The Top 100

The Daily Journal publishes its 11th annual listing of the most influential legal leaders in the state.

Already scolded twice by the state's Commission on Judicial Performance, a San Diego County judge is in trouble again - this t...

A lawyer for some of the accused priests in the San Diego clergy abuse scandal is asking a judge to stop the review of key chu...

The San Diego district attorney's office is planning to file a motion to reconsider the disqualification of Judge Charles W. E...

Senior judges will have to share their courtrooms to save money, the U.S. Judicial Conference decided Tuesday.

While the scandals reported last week are particularly prurient and pathetic, they are not the first to poison the air at Bush...

Alan H. Blankenheimer, a patent litigator in Heller Ehrman’s San Diego office, and several other San Diego partners in Heller’...

Alston & Bird has hired two new partners in the firm's intellectual property group.

The ongoing financial meltdown has prompted calls for stronger regulation. That may bring more business for attorneys working ...

What few economists and almost no ordinary Americans understand is that our own Internal Revenue Code actually encourages busi...

One of the longest-serving general counsel at a Hollywood studio, Warner Bros. Entertainment's John Schulman, announced Tuesda...

Justice Rick Sims, writing for a panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal, said California's practice of granting in-state tu...

TORRANCE - TA Associates Realty acquired a portfolio of 13 industrial properties from Storm Properties Inc. for more than $52 ...

After a year of talks initiated by the San Francisco-based firm, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has merged with 55-attorne...

A federal appeals court has temporarily halted new LAPD financial disclosure rules for gang and narcotics officers who routine...

Judges expressed frustration Monday with the slow pace and surging costs of building a new federal courthouse in downtown Los ...

If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has personal knowledge about the state's efforts to ease overcrowding in its prisons, he can't b...

O'Melveny & Myers and Latham & Watkins teamed up to aid digital music provider Napster Inc. as it was acquired by cons...

The EEOC’s most recent Fact Sheet joins a growing body of informal guidance the agency has issued to the public seeking to bet...

Venue reform, part of the Patent Reform Act, would restore credibility and eminence to federal court patent litigation, writes...

Web Exclusive - The former CEO of KB Home resolved federal civil allegations that he backdated stock options on Monday, but hi...

Latham & Watkins has snagged an Ernst & Young partner for its Bay Area tax department.

Merger talks between Heller Ehrman and Mayer Brown dissolved over the weekend after as many as 40 attorneys, including two key...

Despite early indications that Metrolink was responsible for the deadliest train crash in 15 years, plaintiffs' attorneys expe...

Though John McCain constantly derides earmarks as evil, many earmark originate with an ordinary group of citizens seeking to f...