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...

Forum Column By Eve Hill In California, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, only about 36 percent of the ...

Focus Column — Intellectual Property — By Laura Majerus — A 1995 change in the patent law allows applicants to file a provisio...

WASHINGTON - In the wake of last week's deeply partisan Senate debate on judicial nominations that culminated with Democrats b...

CORONA - In an unprecedented decision, the state's alcoholic beverage watchdog on Friday overturned a 30-day suspension of a l...

FRESNO - Under pressure from the U.S. Supreme Court, a state appellate panel appears likely to slash a $290 million judgment a...

INDIO - Riverside County judges have selected family law facilitator Dale R. Wells as a new Superior Court commissioner. ...

LOS ANGELES - Looking to continue its East Coast expansion, Irvine-based JAMS has merged with Washington, D.C.'s ADR Associate...

SACRAMENTO - Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Paul Dobson, a Republican and veteran deputy attorney general, as ...

Column By Garry Abrams — Early this year, a federal judge in Florida strongly questioned the federal government's choice of Lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - While senators held a 40-hour marathon debate last week on four stalled Republican judicial appointments, the ...

LOS ANGELES - Over objections from the Los Angeles Archdiocese, a state appeals court has ordered that oral arguments be open ...

Losing an appeal is bad enough. But Los Angeles appellate-court justices burned R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and its counsel with...

Carlsbad Corporate Center, 5818 and 5830 El Camino Real, Carlsbad CARLSBAD - In a $15.3 million transaction, two industrial b...

Forum Column - By Steven Ipsen - Nominees for federal judgeships endure a painstakingly thorough investigation into every face...

Forum Column By Hirbod Rashidi One of the most memorable moments of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' confirmation ...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Conventional wisdom is that one should give two weeks' notice before leaving a jo...

Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Bruce Hurwitz - A recent federal court decision exposes directors and officers of private co...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco law enforcers sent John Tennison and Antoine Goff to prison for 13 years for a murder the distri...

SAN DIEGO - A Marine veteran of Vietnam who set his law practice aside to sit as a temporary judge in juvenile court became a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - If a defendant is acquitted - even erroneously - that still counts as an acquittal and the defendant cannot be...

SAN BERNARDINO - A state appellate panel ruled Thursday that a San Bernardino County deputy public defender was protected by t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saying the government took too long to bring the defendant to trial, to...