SAN FRANCISCO - Affirming $7,535,000 in wrongful death damages against a drunken driver already sentenced to 10 years in priso...

Corporate attorney David Young has jumped from the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, where he co-chaired th...

For the state's low-income residents, paying for an attorney during a legal crisis can be unrealistic. But tackling the judici...

Maria Spustek began her legal career in the world of bankruptcy and insolvency law, spending two years as a clerk for U.S. Ban...

San Francisco-based Gordon & Rees added its fourth location outside California with the launch of a new office in Phoenix....

SAN FRANCISCO - The plaintiffs lawyers who won a massive class action settlement against Microsoft will be awarded $112.5 mill...

Column - Legal Ethics - By Lee Kanon Alpert - Ethics are something taught in law school and included in the State Bar's Rules ...

When adjunct professor Richard Coleman gazes out at the students in his negotiation and settlement class at Pepperdine Univers...

After seven years as in-house counsel to mechanical and electrical component manufacturer NMB USA Inc., Michael Dwyer says new...

Davis Wright Tremaine has had a San Francisco office since 1991, but until this year the Seattle-based firm didn't have any co...

In the post-Enron era of securities litigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission is filing more enforcement actions, to ...

EL CAJON - A U.S. Supreme Court order is mounted on the wall of San Diego Superior Court Judge Louis R. Hanoian's chambers. It...

LOS ANGELES - Former Munger, Tolles & Olson co-managing partner Ruth Fisher resigned Friday to become a partner at Gibson,...

Column - Adviser - By William L. Buus - You have a judgment against a corporation and, afterward, you have developed a suspici...

San Jose attorney Alan L. Martini tried to disqualify an arbitrator hearing a contract dispute his client had with a consultan...

More than a dozen Internet search engine companies, including Google and Yahoo!, are the subject of a proposed class action cl...

LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood stuntwoman, who accused Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping her on two movie sets in the early 199...

LOS ANGELES - An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who claims that the Austrian government has six paintings that the Nazis stole...

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles teacher plans to go to the state Supreme Court to try to restore a $425,000 jury verdict aw...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Trust us, we’ve heard the arguments that bigger is not better. We’ve listened to the patient rem...

SACRAMENTO - Activists on both sides of a ballot initiative that would reform the state's unfair competition laws hope Gov. Ar...

LOS ANGELES - A retired judge inadvertently made public a document naming 30 priests as past and present targets of a grand ju...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - What is it about recall elections that makes them such a popular tool for unhappy litigants? Last...

SAN FRANCISCO - In what may be only the beginning, the first layoffs for the 2005 fiscal year hit northern California federal ...

Partner Horace H. Ng has left Townsend and Townsend and Crew in Palo Alto to move crosstown to McDermott Will & Emery. Ng,...

FREMONT - A man accused of petty theft stood before Alameda County Superior Court Commissioner L. Thomas Surh and wanted to di...

LOS ANGELES - Three and a half years after the crash that closed the Angels Flight Railway, the last outstanding claim is sche...

LOS ANGELES - In a last-ditch effort to shield confidential church files from prosecutors, attorneys for Cardinal Roger Mahony...

SAN JOSE - The defense attorney for a man accused of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl is trying to win an acquittal for...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Most Americans younger than 50 have not heard about the payola scandals in the recording...