SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Barbara County winegrowers wanted to create a new appellation and give it the historic name of their cor...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that gives victims of child sex abuse more time to file civil claims...

LOS ANGELES - A panel at the world's highest court for sport heard testimony Monday from U.S. gymnast Paul Hamm and his South ...

SAN DIEGO - A federal appellate court ruled Monday that a former prosecutor possibly doesn't have absolute immunity from a civ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has ordered Pacific Lumber Co. and the state to pay more than $6 million in fees and expenses to the a...

LOS ANGELES - A grand jury indictment allowing prosecutors to forgo a preliminary hearing in the murder case against Phil Spec...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has suspended 1,221 California lawyers for not paying their 2004 State Bar dues, the bar...

Column By Garry Abrams - If you have been holding your breath for the start in Los Angeles federal district court next week of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Several prominent nonprofit groups have complained to the California Supreme Court that a July appellate rulin...

Appellate specialist James Friedhofer recently jumped from downtown San Diego's Correll, Garchie & Edwards to Hatch & ...

A recent appellate opinion calls into question the strength of the autonomy enjoyed by American Indian tribes when confronted ...

San Diego employment boutique Trovillion Inveiss Ponticello & Demakis has branched out with opening of a San Bernardino of...

Dennis Herrera didn't realize what he was creating when he gave Mayor Gavin Newsom the go-ahead to conduct marriages for same-...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a global nonprofit that regulates Internet space and accredits agenci...

LOS ANGELES - Three lawyers from Morrison & Foerster's Los Angeles office arrive for a hearing in Lausanne, Switzerland, t...

Ronald Gass has caught some bad breaks since 1997, when he lost control of his 1993 Infiniti J30 and rolled it in a single-car...

Column - Adviser - By William L. Buus - Congratulations. You've won a judgment against a corporation. At some point afterward,...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's Steven L. Miller actually enjoys it when someone tells him to go take a flying leap....

We all know lawyers are enthusiastic attendees of operas, the symphony, the ballet and the thea-tah, but under those dark-suit...

Entertainment and media litigator Jonathan Anschell takes over today as executive vice president and general counsel of New Yo...

This is not as easy as it looks. As our staff entered hour 1,253 working on this year's list - and through the haze of eating ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Like millions of others who are privileged to live, work and drive in the Los Angeles area, I sometim...

Forum Column - By James M. Mize - How do you make God laugh? Talk about your plans. Dusting off that ancient joke, I am remind...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Timothy J. Dowling, chief counsel of the Washington, D.C.-based Community Rights Counsel...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Helen Duncan and Peter H. Mason - When our law firm set out to survey corporate law departmen...

SAN JOSE - San Jose City Council members want to know why City Attorney Rick Doyle's office's didn't do more to prevent the ci...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - The world descended on San Francisco in February. As same-sex couples stood in line for hours to...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ruled the Los Angeles Archdiocese cannot join an Iowa diocese in challenging the California ...

Dr. Carl E. Franklin, law professor emeritus and vice president emeritus for financial affairs at the University of Southern C...