Steefel, Levitt & Weiss added its first real estate transaction attorneys to its Los Angeles office last month, luring Amy...

The first lawsuit brought under the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 targets the city of Modesto, where Latino voters are ...

Toni Wise has left Cooley Godward to join Greenberg Traurig's Palo Alto office as a partner in its real estate group. Wise, 53...

Column - Adviser - By Noelle C. Nelson - A Goliath client is typically a megacorporation with national recognition and a wide ...

A Florida man has filed a class action in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging Long Beach-based Pioneer Electronics USA sold hi...

A maker of tiny computer chips recently scooped up a big win in Santa Clara Superior Court, when a jury awarded $29.9 million ...

INDIO - A few years back, Brian Harnik thought he had permission to take an Indio judge's robe from a coat rack and lend it to...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sweeping reform proposal for California's troubled prison system calls for eliminating 639 corrections jobs ...

After 25 years in the business of controlling pests through nonlethal means, San Mateo resident Allan Merrifield is going in f...

William Shakespeare's character Puck from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a mischievous servant who uses magic potion to make t...

SAN DIEGO - Decades after earning three Purple Hearts for wounds received in Vietnam, former helicopter pilot Dennis A. Schovi...

Thanks to several dozen law firms, fewer of San Francisco's poor will go hungry this year. Sixty-five firms partnered with the...

Two electronics companies are in heated litigation over six patents for computer and television screens - and according to one...

Five years ago, Stacy Phillips and Carole Handler bumped into each other while visiting a popular Los Angeles salon. While wai...

Riverside's Best Best & Krieger added its first environmental law attorney to its San Diego outpost with the hire of partn...

Stephen Venable Jr., an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Century City office, recently shared a piece of Olympic glo...

As a contestant on the hugely popular CBS reality show "Survivor," Deena Bennett gulped exotic bugs, sliced through the dense ...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - The courts have been busy since this spring's landmark Supreme Court rul...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - To the inexperienced practitioner, legal...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - How would you feel if you were picked up from your office this evening, or from your ...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Last week the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling on a case that will have far-reaching impli...

WASHINGTON - Although the current Supreme Court justices have been together for 10 terms - a modern record - they haven't sett...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Just a few decades ago, the cast of characters was largely the same in courthouse hallways acros...

WASHINGTON - After decades of taking a heavy pounding from the Supreme Court, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Unlike a lot of lawyers and jurists, Contra Costa County Commissioner Stephen Houghton has always led a full a...

LOS ANGELES - After a Los Angeles policeman was videotaped beating a suspected car thief with a flashlight, Mayor James K. Hah...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant blow to dozens of former employees, partners and retired partners of Brobeck, Phleger & H...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Explaining the recent denial of a land developer's request to rezone property so it coul...

Employment Column - By Sylvia Marks-Barnett - Is horseplay in the workplace tolerable? One arbitrator-created definition for h...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By James D. Nguyen and Michael B. Moore - Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to terminate a bo...