The adage "there's no place like home" is especially true for Carson condo owner Deloris Farmer. Farmer, 53, will soon be able...

The Los Angles office of Jenkens & Gilchrist welcomed its first intellectual property attorney with the hire of former Lor...

The Scene drove up to the Beverly Hilton, already running behind, but hoping to catch a few minutes of the cocktail hour of Pu...

Ever since a blaze scorched the office of former Salinas Fire Marshal Norcliff Wiley two years ago, the press has unfairly pok...

With millions of dollars hanging on a contract provision about "penetration of body parts, erect genitalia and ejaculation," t...

Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko has added six attorneys to its corporate practice in the last two months. The firm has one 19-atto...

Carlsbad ski maker K2 plans to shell out $200 million to buy three rival companies: Volkl Sports Holding AG, The Marker Group ...

In what the company's attorney says is the city's largest commercial lease in two years, children's clothing retailer Gymboree...

Within the last two weeks, Duane Morris has lured partners Robert Copeland, Stuart Sorenson and P. Blake Allen from San Diego’...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg, Matthew T. Wakefield and Sabrina A. Beldner - In the landmark decisio...

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Today, there are 110 death row inmates around the country, improperly sentenced under unc...

SAN FRANCISCO - The owner of a Berkeley restaurant has appealed a federal appeals court ruling that it is bound by the city's ...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Draeger Martinez - The story is as old as Hollywood. A young hopeful, brimming with confidenc...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - Did manufacturers who provided solvents or dry cleaning equipment to a...

SAN JOSE - Last week's lawsuits by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties accusing natural gas providers of price gouging came...

LOS ANGELES - The long-running feud between two titans of drunken-driving defense in California may finally be over with a rec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gordon Poole, one of San Francisco's pre-eminent maritime and corporate finance lawyers, has died following a ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Allen Lindell Cleveland Jr. died Thursday after a brief battle with cancer in Houston. He was 71. Cleve...

WASHINGTON - After class action reform legislation failed in the Senate last week, about the only thing that Democrats and Rep...

LOS ANGELES - The former director of a nonprofit job-training agency who was found guilty last month of bilking Los Angeles Co...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - About a decade ago, I had lunch with a certain appellate justice. It was an off-the-record, socia...

LOS ANGELES - Citing the importance of ensuring access to justice for low-income individuals, appellate court justices have ru...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - This year, the courts have continued and accelerated a trend of issuing a larg...

Employment Column - By Timothy Long and Sara Dionne - So your client is thinking about offering its employees a way to share i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Suspected enemy combatant Falen Gherebi, now held at the Guantnamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, will get his day in...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Archdiocese is "the primary target" of the revision of a California law that has opened a floodg...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco attorney Michael Traynor will be honored as the 2004 recipient of the 9th Circuit John P. Frank ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously upheld a life sentence Thursday for a sex offender who neglected to u...

SACRAMENTO - Sanford and MaryJane Madigan's search for a spot to park their daughter's pickup truck near their Scripps Ranch h...

SANTA ANA - A high-profile lawsuit by Suzuki against Consumer Reports magazine over the safety of the automaker's defunct Samu...