SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday sentenced the last captured fugitive member of the radical 1970s Symbionese Liberation ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously held Monday that a gang member who fired two shots into a group of fi...

WASHINGTON - Hearing a case involving claims for billions of dollars in damages, the Supreme Court on Monday clearly indicated...

William Rathbone, a name partner at San Diego's Rathbone, Ruderman & Gardiner, has left the three-man bankruptcy and busin...

The city of Morgan Hill is winning its land use battle with San Jose Christian College, thanks to a federal appellate court de...

Aaron L. Katz recently scored a victory in his long-running battle against Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District...

McDermott, Will & Emery has lured health care litigator Russell Hayman from Latham & Watkins, where he served as a par...

The Boy Scouts of America motto is to always be prepared. While working his way to Eagle Scout, former scout Andrew Kim though...

Duane Morris made a gamble when the Philadelphia-based firm hired Michael Yaki straight from the San Francisco County Board of...

Jonathan Hanover left Hamburg, Hanover, Edwards & Martin earlier this month to head the Los Angeles office of construction...

Kathleen Drummy has joined Seattle-based Davis Wright Tremaine's health care practice as a partner after serving as the health...

The Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law recently held its 20th annual Theater Benefit, featuring a performance of "Topdog/Und...

Silvia Saucedo is leaving the Los Angeles office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, where she had practiced for five ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has quietly ordered the re-examination of the validity of four patents on...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Deanna Wilkinson - It's late springtime. Seems like yesterday we said farewell to our summer...

Robert Anderson says LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae simply wasn't a good fit for his banking and finance practice. "It's n...

San Francisco's Ken Ebanks didn't plan to spend too much time in Geneva, Switzerland, where he moved two years ago to open an ...

Seven of Hollywood's most powerful film studios have sued Fremont-based ESS Technology Inc. for breach of contract, seeking ex...

During the decade they lived together, Karen Covington often fought with her boyfriend, George Organ, who ultimately killed he...

The curtain fell on a battle between two former shareholders and Costa Mesa-based Tickets.com last month when an Orange County...

By Joel Rosenblatt Intellectual-property partner Albert Halluin may take Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati one step closer...

Focus Column - Juries - By Laurie L. Levenson - Jurors should be seen, but not heard - except in their official communications...

Focus Column - Juvenile Law - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - At 3, Linda came under the jurisdiction of Dependency Court to protect...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - When it comes to determining whether a divorced parent can relocate with minor children, C...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Draeger Martinez - Small companies that dream big hope one day to take on the Microsofts and ...

SACRAMENTO - A lawmaker has dropped a bill that would have allowed lawyers to cite unpublished cases in their court briefs, op...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Friday slashed a multimillion-dollar legal-malpractice award to $500,000 for maverick Beve...

SANTA CLARA - As the defense opens its case today in the trial of Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser, the ...

LOS ANGELES - Double murder charges were ordered dropped Friday against Michael Frank Goodwin, who Orange County prosecutors c...

SACRAMENTO - Pretty much from the very beginning of his legal career, Sacramento Superior Court Judge James P. Henke wanted to...