LOS ANGELES - A survey commissioned by Catholic bishops and scheduled for release today is expected to show most dioceses nati...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali refused Monday to delay Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s Chapter 11 reorgan...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney-elect Kamala Harris is prepared to name Lou Landini, an Alameda County district attorney ins...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday to reconsider its October decision that paroled inmates can...

OAKLAND - Judge Carl Morris is so practical and easygoing it's hard to imagine him listening to lawyers' arguments all day. "T...

SAN FRANCISCO - Parting ways with most other states, a deeply divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that people cannot...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that mentally ill criminal offenders locked up in state hospitals ca...

As holiday shoppers hustled through Union Square in San Francisco to finish their gift-buying, the defense attorneys in the cr...

The holiday season was bright for Volcano Therapeutics Inc. Volcano, a medical device manufacturer, has completed a $50 millio...

Focus: Law Firm Management - By Neil Shapiro - Law firm consolidations, rare just a few years ago, now occur with the regulari...

LOS ANGELES - In 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Zaven V. Sinanian took a one-year leave of absence from his job at...

Tenet Healthcare Corp. has tapped E. Peter Urbanowicz to steer the company through its legal troubles as its new general couns...

Some of the country's megafirms have scaled back their real estate practices in recent years, says Douglas Van Gessel, a veter...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - In addition to providing its clients with quality legal service...

Silicon Valley high-technology companies Verisity Ltd. and Axis Systems Inc. are joining forces to create a bigger player in t...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Faxes, photocopies, Internet research, and telephone calls all make their way onto legal bills. ...

When "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" made its European premiere in Berlin in December, attorney Larry Ulman at...

Column - Trial Strategy - By Douglas G. Carnahan - As the state Legislature and the Judicial Council continue to consider incr...

Intellidot Corp.'s small hand-held device for preventing medication mistakes has piqued the interest of venture capitalists, w...

Bared breasts are a common sight in Las Vegas, so when staff of a casino restaurant asked Watsonville mother Amy Howley to lea...

Peter J. Dekom is putting his solo practice and writing career behind him to join a Beverly Hills-based entertainment firm. ...

Lucas Chang exemplifies the intensifying battle for lawyers with expertise in China. Chang, until December a partner at Heller...

Anticipating a doubling of its attorney ranks in Palo Alto this year, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw moved Dec. 12 to larger off...

Mariam Musa Ibrahim Mohammed doesn't have to return to Sudan, because an immigration judge granted her request for asylum rece...

A Washington, D.C., District Court judge recently granted a preliminary injunction halting the hostile takeover of Atlantic Co...

Some of the country's largest financial institutions have agreed to a $90 million settlement of a class action alleging that t...

David Geyer, the architect of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's groundbreaking multimillion-dollar television advertising camp...

Forum Column - By Paul J. Wallin - Based on the evidence that has been revealed thus far, it is shocking that many attorneys, ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By David H. Raizman and Kaye E. Chaffee - Courts repeatedly have interpreted California's proh...

Focus Column - Legal Ethics - By Michael J. Collins and Nima Shivayi - In Snider v. Superior Court (Quantum Productions Inc...