LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles family law attorneys are very disappointed with Judge Ann I. Jones' new criminal-courts assignment. ...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In re Marriage of Brown/Campos , 108 Cal.App.4th 8...

Forum Column - By Nausheen Hassan - Laws in all 50 states recognize some version of battered women's syndrome, which purports ...

LOS ANGELES - A former real estate attorney already facing federal prison for bankruptcy fraud pleaded guilty Monday to state ...

WASHINGTON - A request by state officials to the U.S. Department of Justice to "pre-clear" recall election voting procedures i...

LOS ANGELES - Psychiatrists can be sued over the death of a woman murdered by a patient they had released from an involuntary ...

LOS ANGELES - Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw has lured real estate partner Dean Pappas from O'Melveny & Myers. Pappas, who wor...

LOS ANGELES - A statewide Judicial Council study of private-judge referrals, sparked by protests that sitting judges were send...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge has promised to rule by Wednesday on whether California voters can proceed with an O...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers targeted by malicious prosecution actions got a boost Monday from the California Supreme Court when th...

Column By Garry Abrams - Over the weekend, I had an epiphany about those dueling apocalypses, the California gubernatorial rec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trial court lawyers are up in arms about new and increased court filing fees, arguing that their support for t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge John J. Conway, robed and ready for court, strikes a pugilist's pose in his San Francisco chambers. He w...

INDIO - Photographs of a pastor in a hot tub with two topless women are newsworthy, a judge has ruled in dismissing the clergy...

Daily Journal Extra Feature - In April 2002, the Los Angeles Catholic Church was getting hammered by the press, and Cardinal R...

The Playboy Bunnies are revealing a side of themselves no one has seen before: the crime-fighting side. The Playmates soon wil...

San Francisco media company MarketWatch.com Inc. will acquire Pinnacor Inc. in a deal valued at $103 million in cash and stock...

Column - Trial Strategy - By David B. Baum - Awe and trepidation - these are the emotions typical of the trial lawyer approach...

In 2001, Lara Callas traveled to Albania to devote her legal skills to helping the Orthodox Church in Albania. Forty-five year...

Los Angeles trial consultant Richard Gabriel has a lofty goal for his one-term as president of the American Society of Trial C...

Digital River Inc., which provides e-commerce services for businesses, has raised $45 million in a stock offering. The Minneap...

After splitting from the firm he merged with two years ago, Eric Klein has found a new home in the Century City office of Katt...

More California firms have joined the ranks of newly public companies. Two of the latest initial public offerings came in late...

Los Angeles' Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliot has added two land-use partners for its Irvine office this summer. John C. Con...

Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis is open for business in San Francisco despite defections that have shrunk the office to ...

Roger Billings' 12-year legal battle against software company Novell Inc. finally may be running out of steam. The inventor su...

A former accounting manager at an Orange County law firm alleges that office management tolerated sexual harassment, then reta...

Column - Legal Technology - By John J. Selbak and Colin C. Elrod - As communication technology develops, more clients expect t...

When you run your own successful litigation boutique, you can expect job offers from large law firms - just ask the name partn...

CAMARILLO - Royce Medical Co. leased 17,784 square feet of R&D space at 4550 Calle Alto from the Snemelof Family Trust fo...