California banks Commercial Capital Bancorp Inc. and Hawthorne Financial Corp. are joining forces. Under a deal announced in l...

Column - Trial Strategy - By Douglas G. Carnahan - We know a trial lawyer's job is not to curry favor with the judge. Her job ...

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright isn't popular with everyone, she admitted to the Association of Southern Californ...

LOS ANGELES - The youngest girls ask the most heart-wrenching questions. A 16-year-old ward of the California Youth Authority,...

Mark Anderson, general counsel for San Francisco's Dolby Laboratories, wants to boost his three-attorney staff with the additi...

BAE Systems has tapped Susan Guggenheim Lowenstam to serve as general counsel and ethics officer of the company's Integrated S...

Full-service firm Michelman & Robinson is bolstering its insurance practice with the acquisition of Los Angeles insurance ...

An Orange County judge ruled against Hollister-based Safety Storage Inc., which allegedly tried to hide assets from a lender s...

When Bet Tzedek Legal Services secured a recent settlement for four Los Angeles garment workers, no supporter of the nonprofit...

The end of the year brought good news for the venture capital community. Investors put $4.9 billion in young companies in the ...

After 10 years of litigation, three trials and a 150-page decision, two squabbling water authorities have an interpretation of...

A small Northern California town must pay $46,817 in attorney fees after withholding public information from a local newspaper...

The Scene arrived at the Century Plaza Hotel and Spa a little early for Bet Tzedek's 30th-anniversary dinner. With the score o...

Online auction site eBay Inc. has signed a deal to buy mobile.de, a classifieds Web site for vehicles in Germany, for $152 mil...

Andrea Clay closed seven major commercial loan deals in her first month at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory. That's evi...

Forum Column - By Rahul Mahajan - When William Shakespeare said, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment," ...

Forum Column - By Lee A. Casey - The purpose of David Frum and Richard Perle's new book "An End to Evil: How to Win the War on...

Focus Column - Litigation - By James J. Moneer - Code of Civil Procedure Section 425.17 (SB515) became effective Jan. 1. The l...

Focus Column - Construction Law - By Daniel W. Park - Contractors who do business with state, federal or local governments fac...

SAN DIEGO - The Boy Scouts of America have filed a federal lawsuit against the city of San Diego, alleging that the city viola...

LOS ANGELES - A Canyon Country man who posted unkind things about his former employer on an Internet bulletin board cannot be ...

SAN ANTONIO - Texas has a well-deserved reputation for being tough on crime, but leaders of the Texas criminal justice system ...

SAN DIEGO - In a sensational murder trial scheduled to open here today, defense attorneys contend prosecutors have the wrong m...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - What is in a name? A method, or a technology? Everything, in today's economy. Tales of patented ...

SANTA ANA - Though he voiced concern that his ruling only delays the inevitable, a federal judge on Friday blocked the America...

TULARE - Asked during a recent interview why he became a lawyer, Tulare Superior Court Judge Ronn Couillard was quick to reply...

SAN JOSE - Criminal defendants who want to block media access to their probation reports more than 60 days after their convict...

SAN FRANCISCO - A century and a half after the Civil War, the nation's courts are still consumed by spirited turf battles over...

WASHINGTON - Responding to widespread criticism, the Pentagon on Friday announced that the government could monitor only under...

SAN FRANCISCO - An antitrust case alleging oil price-fixing in American Samoa that began while the Vietnam War still raged and...