A family operated maker of Christmas tree stands stood up to Home Depot, the nation's largest home improvement retailer, and w...

Ten major Wall Street firms have agreed to settle conflict-of-interest charges for $1.4 billion, but investors still are fumin...

Don't expect to see flashy but vacuous ads coming out of Morrison & Foerster's marketing department any time soon, says Ke...

Column - Litigation Strategy - By Noelle C. Nelson - Jurors are more forgiving of lay witnesses than of any other participants...

San Diego continues to show its strength as a center of biotech activity. Santarus Inc. has raised $51 million in a fourth rou...

Intellectual property litigator Louis Bovasso has joined the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Traurig, the firm announced in Ma...

As Told By Pierce O'Donnell - The Daily Journal has discovered additional tape recordings of secret interrogations conducted 5...

Column - Technology Review - By Paul Kiesel - I'm home when I get this call. "Paul, there's a big - and I mean big - package t...

A little-known Web site is now big news, thanks to Barbra Streisand. The California Coastal Records Project Web site displays ...

The U.S. government is partially responsible for the deaths of four intoxicated teenagers who crashed in a car after attending...

After spending 23 years as an executive in the entertainment industry, Fred Bernstein, a former president of Columbia TriStar ...

Earlier this month, PeopleSoft Inc. agreed to buy J.D. Edwards & Co. in a $1.7 billion deal that would create the world's ...

In February, Alan Blankenheimer and a handful of lawyers joined Boston's Fish & Richardson from Phoenix's Brown & Bain...

Column - Business Development - By Karen Kaplowitz - You want to be a rainmaker. Where do speaking and writing fit in your gam...

Myra Pasek spent 2-1/2 years in charge of litigation at Santa Clara's Affymetrix Inc. Managing patent disputes over the firm's...

The legal battle between two of the biggest stars in the amateur telescope universe rages on. In 2001, Meade Instruments Corp....

A week after closing offices in Palo Alto and Newport Beach, the partners at Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly were still cons...

Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has lured a big shot intellectual property lawyer to its offices there...

RAINMAKERS - The economy on the rebound? At the very least business must be good for California law firms. According to our so...

When Kenneth Chiate graduated from Columbia Law School in 1966, he was sure he'd spend the rest of his career with the same gr...

San Diego's Bacalski, Byrne, Koska & Ottoson has added a veteran litigator to its ranks. Bruce Bailey joined last month fr...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Joseph L. Beachboard - In an important decision for professional corporations and many othe...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Randy L. Turtle - A 2001 newspaper article disclosed a surprising and disturbing fact: Evidence...

Forum Column - By Bill Lockyer - Deputy Attorney General Joel Davis' recent column entitled "Improper Fidelities: Attorney Gen...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The United States is about to embark on the largest post-war reconstruction project since ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Noting he has been disciplined twice for similar misconduct, a panel of special masters has found that Alameda...

LOS ANGELES - Duane Morris has scooped up a dozen insurance coverage lawyers from San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Sc...

OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court plans to roll out two filing innovations that will make it easier for litigants to get...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Lichtman has announced plans to run for assistant presiding judge for 200...

SAN FRANCISCO - A special Judicial Council panel has given its approval to easing the strict "fast track" rules that govern th...