SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court reinstated a rape conviction Monday against a defendant who claimed he wasn't for...

Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan lured former Pillsbury Winthrop partner M. Katharine Davidson to its 100-lawyer Santa Mon...

The boutique model worked well for Buchman & O'Brien for 65 years, beginning with its founder Abraham Buchman in 1939. So ...

In police television dramas, officers are often shown commandeering vehicles. That isn't supposed to happen in the real world,...

The family of a 24-year-old Los Angeles man killed by deputies last August has slapped Los Angeles County and the county Sheri...

Marvel Enterprises, the company which controls Spider-Man and many other comic book characters, is flexing its superhero muscl...

The rapidly growing, 15-month-old San Diego outpost of Duane Morris scooped up another former attorney from Luce, Forward, Ham...

LOS ANGELES - Just four months after she began working round-the-clock as a maid for James J. Jackson and his wife, Elizabeth ...

Column - Closer - By Elizabeth Lampert and Norm Rubenstein - Whether U.S. law firms want to serve existing clients branching i...

On the western side of Napa Valley rise the slopes of Mount Veeder, the area's second-highest peak, at 2,682 feet. Early settl...

Herbst Gaming Inc. is grabbing a chunk of the riverboat casino market. The Nevada-based casino and slot machine operator has a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Activists want a new consideration added to environmental impact studies, along with the usual menu of analyse...

AHMC Inc. has agreed to purchase four hospitals in the San Gabriel Valley from Santa Barbara-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. in a...

Citing her new firm's offices in "major growth markets," environmental and land use attorney Malissa McKeith moved her entire ...

John Frankenheimer spent an evening recently being toasted by his fellow attorneys, serenaded by his client, singer-songwriter...

On July 14, information technology giant IBM Corp. announced plans to purchase longtime Fenwick & West client Alphablox, a...

Column - Adviser - By Dwight L. Armstrong - It's 5:30 a.m. It's dark. Your client left you an urgent message to meet him at hi...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Stephen S. Korniczky and Douglas Olson - Although it has been in existence for only ...

Forum Column - By Deborah Wald - For children with heterosexual parents, California courts do not hesitate to act to protect e...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Each and every day, our family law courts issue orders that are supposed to govern the con...

LOS ANGELES - Jerrell Patrick, who gunned down a man after he was released from jail because of an overtime pay dispute betwee...

ATLANTA - The military lawyer in charge of representing prisoners held at the Guantnamo Naval base said Friday that he is conf...

SACRAMENTO - Two of the criminal defense lawyers charged with disclosing witness information to their clients say that prosecu...

SAN JOSE - Barring a successful appeal, an initiative backed by Santa Clara County's prosecutors and public defenders that wou...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant victory for environmentalists, a federal appeals court ruling could tighten land-use restrict...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney has halted construction on a gate that would have blocked access to public parklan...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Amy K. Spees - You're a new associate. Half-empty briefcase in hand, stomach fluttering, you'...

The owners of a Rancho Cordova shopping mall have won a disabled-access suit filed by a man who sued the historic Nimbus Winer...

LOS ANGELES - The $2 billion settlement announced last week to fix Los Angeles' broken sewer system marked a sea change in how...

SAN FRANCISCO - Berkeley Bowl, the revered eco-friendly grocery that saw its liberal image tarnished after it was accused of a...