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...

SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty police officers charged with beating two men on Union Street last year have subpoenaed Dist...

LOS ANGELES - Nearing the end of a typically busy day in Referee Anthony A. Trendacosta's juvenile dependency courtroom one da...

Column By Garry Abrams - It's the money. No, it's the trash. The preceding is the short, uncomplicated, relatively nonparanoid...

SAN FRANCISCO - A secret federal grand jury has subpoenaed fingerprints and DNA from former members of the Black Panthers, Wea...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent San Jose labor lawyer and union organizer Elliot Wax has died of heart failure. He was 90. Wax, who ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Blazing down a busy street in their shiny tricked-out Honda Civics, David Eugene Bradley and Magin Alvarez ...

Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Kevin Kroeker and Gretchen Meisel LaChance - Long-awaited regulations from the state Depar...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - California's official unemployment rate as of August was 6.6 percent, or 1,157,500 Cali...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Interviewing by videoconference is becoming more common as law firms and corporat...

SACRAMENTO - Arnold Schwarzenegger's election as California's next governor could be a deadly blow to the gubernatorial aspira...

CLAREMONT - City officials must confer with police bargaining unions before ordering officers to collect data on the race and ...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sherman W. Smith Sr., a do...