Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - In a survey by the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board released in October, 12 per...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Monday sought guidance from lawyers in crafting new law on whether legal arguments in c...

ANTIOCH - Keegin & Coppin Co . broker Ronald Stauber closed the $1.3 million sale of 21,000 square feet of industrial spa...

On Nov. 12, professor Catherine Fisk argued that the Senate should not confirm the president's nomination of Los Angeles Supe...

Focus Column Probate Law By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley In In the Matter of the Erma Mary Olivera Trust , 2003 DJDA...

LOS ANGELES - Mary Cranston will serve another term as chairwoman of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop after her partners vo...

WASHINGTON - Declining to jump back into the affirmative action debate after its major ruling last term, the Supreme Court on...

Column By Garry Abrams Sometimes, paranoia is not a fantasy. Sometimes, your phone really is tapped. Sometimes, the strange n...

AUBURN - Virtually everyone who has come into contact with Placer County Superior Court Judge Richard Couzens has a good word...

VENTURA - Ventura Superior Court Judge John E. Dobroth spent Halloween day shuttling between two courts. In the morning and af...

Forum Column By Jay Handlin In deciding the appeal in Newton v. Diamond , the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had a chance ...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a strong rebuke to his own court Saturday, saying its creati...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara defense attorney Dennis Alan Lempert has won a battle against what he considers an attempt by a judge ...

The budget woes that have given the Golden State the lowest credit rating in the nation complicated a recent $3 billion financ...

Five hundred civil rights boosters from the Bay Area and beyond clambered up the ramp of San Francisco's Palace Hotel on Oct. ...

Football players often land themselves a spot on the clip reel for their hard hits on the field, but they're supposed to be sl...

INDIO - The $9.3 million in financing for the 10-building Las Brisas and the six-building Tres Flores apartment complexes was...

A battle playing out between animal rights activists and a foie gras maker over the duck farm's allegedly tortuous tactics cou...

Tuxedo rental firm Gingiss Group Inc., which operates 236 stores nationwide, selected a Los Angeles bankruptcy boutique to hel...

Feature — By Pierce O'Donnell — On his very first day in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is presiding over a high-powered b...

After two years with the Department of Justice, Dan Collins has returned to Los Angeles' Munger, Tolles & Olson as a partn...

Hogan & Hartson has hired another partner in its corporate practice in Century City. Carissa Coze joined the firm Oct. 20 ...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature — In a state where the result of a big-time trial could lead to a silver screen rendition of the c...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has hired a group of 10 advertising, marketing and media law attorneys from New York's Hall Dick...

LOS ANGELES - The federal government seldom prosecutes wiretappers, and linking celebrity private investigator Anthony Pellica...

In a high-profile breach-of-contract case last year involving a legendary Hollywood film celebrity, the star sued his movie pr...

A steady stream of biotechnology companies braved the public markets over the past several weeks, but the newcomers failed to ...

SIMI VALLEY - A 3,500-square-foot building on 2.19 acres of land at 4364 Valley Fair St. will be home to an office space expa...

A lease renewal in New York City may have precipitated the breakup of 120-year-old intellectual property firm Pennie & Edm...

Members of the Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association of Los Angeles gathered at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel on Nov. 1 to cel...