LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was again the bearer of good news for a wrongly convicted man when earlier...

For Nimish P. Patel, 37-year-old name partner of the Los Angeles-based corporate and securities law boutique Richardson & ...

Former San Francisco Public Defender Geoff Brown, who quit defending criminals to become a state Public Utilities Commissioner...

WESTMINSTER - It was a Tuesday afternoon at the West Justice Center in Orange County. Commissioner Clarence E. Haynes had spen...

The Daily Journal honors pro bono projects and cases that demonstrate courage and commitment on the part of private attorneys ...

Latham & Watkins appointed R. Scott Shean managing partner of the firm's Orange County office. Shean's focus includes merg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Winston & Strawn continued this year's aggressive Northern California growth pattern with the addition of ...

LOS ANGELES - Health-care attorney Robert Layton joined the Los Angeles office of Davis Wright Tremaine Friday from Sheppard, ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Edmund D. Edelman - The Los Angeles Police Department is making a determined effort to clean up Skid Row by ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Joseph Sorrentino - A 57-year-old half-blind cripple in a wheelchair stole a cheap clock from a department s...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert D. "Bo" Links - One true thing about litigation is that it breeds winners and losers. Witnesses testi...

SAN FRANCISCO - How much are class-action lawyers entitled to know about individual consumers while trying to file a lawsuit i...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Judicial Council approved a slate of jury reforms Friday, including one that requires judges to allow juro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oriet Cohen-Supple, a San Francisco-based commercial litigator recently elected partner at Carroll, Burdick &a...

SAN DIEGO - There were no lawyers in Jill L. Burkhardt's family, but she knew from an early age she wanted to be one.

LOS ANGELES - Nearly a year after reports of a settlement first surfaced, Cardinal Roger Mahony said he has agreed to pay $60 ...

LOS ANGELES - Alan Friedman credits Joseph Welch, the Army lawyer who famously asked Sen. Joseph McCarthy if he had no shame, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Francisco-based trial attorney David O. Larson remembers the charge his mentors issued when he was...

LOS ANGELES - Proskauer Rose augmented its developing Los Angeles transactional practice last week by adding a pair of partner...

LOS ANGELES - Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory needed a land-use partner for its Los Angeles office, and a corporate pa...

SAN BERNARDINO - Two judges who each have sat for 20 years on the San Bernardino County Superior Court are set to retire over ...

WASHINGTON - "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," the meaningless marijuana-themed message that landed an Alaska high-school student in hot wa...

GLENDALE - When Laura A. Matz took the bench for the first time in 1996, she felt as if she were about to embark on an uneasy ...

LOS ANGELES - In one of the largest of the hundreds of lawsuits stemming from the Northridge earthquake, a Los Angeles Superio...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Wendy M. Lazerson and Carlos Patricio Mino - You are at a San Francisco 49ers game enjoying a day away ...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Joseph S. Wu - It's finally here. The six-year, Herculean push of experts and legal scholars to amend the Fe...

FORUM COLUMN - By Stanley S. Taylor and Aron J. Tager - As anyone who has contracted for construction work on his or her prope...

LOS ANGELES - Following the well-trod path from the U.S. attorney's office to the private sector, senior litigation counsel Al...

Francis W. Mayer, a retired veteran San Francisco judge who was instrumental in reforming the city's Juvenile Court system, di...

LOS ANGELES - A tentative settlement reached between the city of Long Beach and the operator of the Queen Mary luxury liner wo...