RIVERSIDE - A State Bar Court judge has recommended that a Riverside immigration attorney be disbarred for "frivolously" filin...

WASHINGTON - In a letter made public Monday, Justice Antonin Scalia apologized for the actions of a federal marshal who confis...

LOS ANGELES - Project Islamic HOPE founder Najee Ali was ordered Monday to stand trial in Los Angeles Superior Court for felon...

SACRAMENTO - Proponents of two major legal initiatives, one dealing with tort reform and the other with DNA testing, announced...

LOS ANGELES - An alleged sexual-assault victim of John Gordon Jones settled her lawsuit last week with the attorneys she claim...

LOS ANGELES - The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has tapped Ann Marie Tallman to serve as its president a...

LOS ANGELES - Civil rights lawyer Kevin S. Reed will be appointed general counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District, ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Nearly four years after California danced on the brink of massive energy failures, last week's federa...

SAN FRANCISCO - The situation was depressingly familiar to San Francisco prosecutors: a woman had called police to stop her hu...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Keker has prepared an aggressive defense for the retrial of Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A small San Jose software company announced Monday that it won a $440 million settlement in its bitter three-y...

WASHINGTON - A glance around Beth S. Brinkmann's spacious office provides some clues about why she is among the very elite gro...

McDermott, Will & Emery has nabbed three associates in as many months from the Costa Mesa office of Washington, D.C.-based...

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...