LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard R. Romero was a second-year law student at Hastings College of the Law ...

Buchanan Ingersoll has added former in-house attorney Nancy Dahl to its San Diego outpost, the Pittsburgh-based firm's only Ca...

Although the two sides disagree about why, a real estate business owned by a Super Bowl quarterback and one of his company's f...

Next month, Gregory Weingart will re-enter private practice at the law firm where he first worked as an attorney. Weingart, wh...

While laws seldom change fast, technology and tools available to lawyers often do. On Thursday and Friday, the Daily Journal C...

Irell & Manella Century City • Benjamin Hattenbach (Boalt Hall, 1996) • Andrei Iancu (University of California, Los Angele...

When the name partners of San Francisco's Steefel, Levitt & Weiss recruited Barry W. Lee to the firm in 1992, they knew th...

Thanks to a planned $7 million donation by veteran trial attorney Joseph W. Cotchett Jr. and his wife Victoria Cotchett, inner...

Bigger continues to be better in the banking industry. BancWest Corp. has signed a deal to buy Community First Bankshares Inc....

Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Nathan R. Scott - Who to choose? When parties include alternative dispute resolut...

Members of the military who are looking for jobs, educational opportunities or benefit information now have a monster to help ...

A few years ago, Billie Lawrence underwent a needle biopsy to determine whether she had a malignant tumor on her lung. The doc...

For Amgen Inc., the world's largest biotechnology firm, owning just part of Tularik Inc. is no longer enough. A year after buy...

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit that approves the first phase of a 5,000-home development in the San Joaquin Valley can ...

In a deal uniting two Silicon Valley chipmakers, Intersil Corp. has agreed to purchase Xicor Inc. for $529 million in cash and...

Column - Marketing - By Timothy P. O'Brien - When someone meets you for the first time, here's the deal, good or bad: Within o...

Although PowerAgent Inc. had demanded $3.5 billion, the company left a recent arbitration against former business partner Elec...

Christopher Ruhland has returned to San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe as of-counsel after a stint at The Walt...

To corner the pineapple market, Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. allegedly engaged in a campaign of misinformation and "sham" pate...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Werner S. Lewin Jr. - Law office use of part-time contract attorneys continues to expand. Wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was poised to emerge from bankruptcy today after a federal judge denied a last-di...

Aspiring Navy SEAL Joel Roberts has won a jury verdict topping $6.6 million in a personal injury lawsuit against Riverside bus...

Encino attorney Greg Stone has racked up an impressive batting average in the courtroom. Stone, 40, has defended clients in 45...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Erik Cummins - Globalization has been the name of the game for the world's largest law firms ...

Forum Column - By Matt Daniels - Have you heard anyone say, "Marriage is not the business of government?" This sounds great un...

Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Jeffrey A Lowe - Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two consolidat...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Jeffrey L. Fillerup - In recent years, a dozen state and federal courts in California have foun...

LOS ANGELES - Her supervisors laughed it off when Shanese Exum complained that her female boss, Marianne Theus, was sexually h...

SAN FRANCISCO - The defense pummeled the government's key witness during two days of intense questioning last week in the mone...

SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay judge who was ousted for repeatedly bullying lawyers and his staff as well as a former Fresno juri...