On the evening of Dec. 13, 600 guests, dressed to the nines in their Hollywood chic, gathered in the dimly lit ballroom of the...
A heated, 18-month takeover battle between two California-based software giants ended with a $10.3 billion deal that lawyers s...
Government
Panel OKs Strip Club Owner's Suit Against City of La Habra
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - In the latest twist in a decade-long legal battle, a state appeals court has cleared the way for the owner of an a...
Two California-based law firms helped pave the way for a $22 million merger between mobile phone software providers on opposit...
LOS ANGELES - For many, the holiday season is a time for reflection. For Martha Stewart, contemplating her first Christmas beh...
Closer - Law Firm Management - By Sandford A. Lechtick - Clifford Chance is the world's largest law firm. It has 29 offices in...
Trusts & Estates
Heirs Tangle Over Copyright for 'Pink Panther' Story
By Draeger Martinez
While MGM Studios has high hopes for its new "Pink Panther" movie next summer, several heirs of the Panther's co-creator have ...
Intellectual Property
Timing Is Right for Studios' Bid to Shutter Film File-Sharing on Internet
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Forum Column - By James D. Nguyen - The mythological Pandora released evils into the world when she opened her famed box. In t...
Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - One of the toughest issues in Fourth Amendment search and seizure ...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Our system of justice is founded, in large part, on the premise that a cause brought befor...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Jason W. Armstrong - Jon Velie isn't an American Indian. But the Norman, Okla.-based attorney...
"With your support, you can help us continue to investigate the murders of Laci and Conner Peterson so that we can free the ma...
LOS ANGELES - A gang member convicted of murdering the granddaughter of Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks cannot be sl...
SAN FRANCISCO - When companies commit fraud, even if it doesn't result in property loss or bodily injury, they are subject to ...
Judges and Judiciary
Veteran State Deal-Maker Adapts Quickly to Bench
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Before he took the bench, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Robert C. Hight helped broker some of the biggest envir...
Teenagers Justin Black and Jesse Holcomb were good friends. They went to the same schools, and they frequently socialized toge...
SAN FRANCISCO - After months of trading arguments in written briefs, lawyers crowded into a San Francisco courtroom Wednesday ...
INDUSTRIAL COMPTON - Rob Neal purchased a 100,000-square-foot industrial building at 18020 S. Santa Fe Ave. from Fal Santa Fe...
SACRAMENTO - A day before the high-profile court battle over same-sex marriage got under way in San Francisco, a Sacramento ap...
Focus Column - Securities Law - By Jennifer Kirk - Are the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ shareholder approval rules for e...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court granted review Wednesday of an appellate court ruling allowing the newly incorpor...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Alexander R. Early III, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge. Early died Dec...
Technology & Science
Digital Legal Drama Unfolds India's Discovery of E-Commerce Sex, Guilt
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Porn over the Internet. What a concept. Jaded, surf-savvy Americans may barely bat a jaundiced eye at...
LOS ANGELES - Some plaintiffs' lawyers who have sued the Los Angeles Archdiocese over clergy sexual abuse have begun quietly d...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Keeps Cool In the Fire of Family Court
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - San Mateo Superior Court Commissioner Richard DuBois was trying to piece together the facts of a complicated -...
SAN FRANCISCO - An unprecedented Bush administration settlement of an endangered species case could harm efforts to protect wi...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego Superior Court judge approved Wednesday settlement of litigation that requires R.J. Reynolds Tobacco C...
SAN FRANCISCO - Civil liberties groups suffered a setback Tuesday in their challenge to the anti-terrorism law that criminali...
INDUSTRIAL NAPA - Bedford Property Investors Inc. sold a 120,157-square-foot warehouse at 901 Kaiser Road to an undisclosed bu...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday ordered Verizon to pay $88 million to California consumers for charging rental fees on obsolete ...