Column By Garry Abrams - Barring intervention by an appellate court, sole practitioner Frances L. Diaz will spend what will no...

While residents of California were successful in recalling Gov. Gray Davis over economic issues ranging from the energy crisis...

A rousing concert broke out during a formal dinner recently when the Beverly Hills Bar Association honored Jay L. Cooper as it...

If you were lucky enough to receive an invitation to this year's Masters Forum, held at Pepperdine University School of Law, y...

For at least one night, the young lawyers who make up the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Barristers let the old folks re...

Being at a firm that's looking ahead rather than back is fun, says Peter Heinecke, who recently joined Kirkpatrick & Lockh...

After performing a liver transplant procedure, the surgical staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center failed to remove a towel from...

Column - Attorney Fees - By Andrew A. August - With the rise in the number of private attorney general representative actions ...

Three months after San Diego managing partner Mark Danis assumed firmwide management duties, Morrison & Foerster has found...

SANTA ANA - Hazel Harris was planning to live out the rest of her life peacefully in the Fullerton home she bought in 1950. It...

Labor relations law firms Castle & Krause and the Petersen Law Firm joined this summer to form Castle, Petersen & Krau...

San Francisco-based UnionBanCal Corp., the parent company of Union Bank of California, plans to continue its buying spree of r...

One day after insurance recovery boutique Zevnik Horton dissolved, 27 lawyers from the Washington, D.C.-based firm joined Morg...

A Dallas-based company that provides information management for hospitals won't have to change its letterhead after all. Not y...

Lanny Davis joined the Clinton White House as special counsel in 1996 as the Whitewater scandal was winding down. For the next...

Column - Law Firm Management - By David Roberts And Stan Stahl - The modern law firm competes in a world very different from t...

When Charles Birenbaum lost a March election to run Thelen Reid & Priest by one vote, he had no idea he'd end up at Winsto...

The approval of plans for a massive power plant in the Central Valley has sparked a recent petition to the state Supreme Court...

Thanks to a recent order by a San Francisco court, infants born under Medi-Cal will continue to receive those benefits until t...

Broadening the scope of its online travel services, e-commerce company InterActiveCorp has agreed to buy discount travel Web s...

A private investment firm has agreed to buy San Diego's Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp., operator of the Souplantation and Sweet...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - During the boom, technology was king and anyone trying to battle indigenous Silicon Valley firms...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By William G. Short - Insurers should take heed, if they have not already, of a little-noticed ...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Michael J. Roberts - Consider a common situation: An employment mediation t...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Marisa Gonzalez - Should courts be permitted to require mothers who allege domestic violen...

SAN FRANCISCO - In Dennis Caeton's courtroom, kids come first. That's the consensus among attorneys and social workers who hav...

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has refused to reinstate a lawsuit filed against a Los Angeles-area Jewish Community Center by ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County courts are gearing up for a possible "massive" wildcat strike by sheriff's deputies Tuesday. ...

WOODLAND - Yolo County Superior Court Judge Arvid Johnson is a conservative, Baptist, former prosecutor who enjoys small-town ...

Reporter's Notebook - By John Roemer - Incumbent District Attorney Terence Hallinan's paradoxical campaign strategy is to unde...