Imagine how much time it would take to move 600 people through security checkpoints and you'll have a good idea of the wait Th...

In Closing Column - Public Relations - By Judy Leon - Though they don't wear flak jackets or dodge artillery fire, reporters w...

After riding the Vegas-like euphoria of the boom years, corporate shops such as Gunderson Dettmer and Venture Law Group have r...

Matthew Richardson is rejoining some old friends at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. Richardson moved to the Los Angel...

Karin Kramer says Chavez & Gertler's recruiting plans are in high gear. "We're busy with lots of interesting new work, and...

Henry Ota has landed on his feet one day after New York's Kelley Drye & Warren pulled the plug on its Los Angeles office. ...

A University of Southern California study was supposed to be dentist Sargon Lazarof's crowning achievement, but it turned out ...

Opening statements are scheduled tomorrow in San Francisco Superior Court in the second phase of a lawsuit filed by a Florida-...

Negotiating merger deals may become even more challenging for corporate lawyers, thanks to a recent opinion by a Delaware cour...

By Joan Osterwalder Attorney Eric Castelblanco's resourcefulness helped change a young woman's life. Six years ago, the Los A...

Unable to make their practice areas mesh, San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps and Seattle's Preston, Gates &...

LOS ANGELES - County Democrats have asked Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss to run against Republican District Attorney ...

Focus Column - Real Property - By David M. Grey - An attempt at mediation is a condition precedent to the recovery of attorney...

Forum Column By Jonathan E. Stern Imagine you are a blues guitarist taking a break in the recording studio. You open a comic b...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher M. Tobin - You've conveyed the importance of developing intellectual pro...

SAN BERNARDINO - A Laguna Beach businessman who pleaded guilty to bribing several high-ranking Colton officials is in talks wi...

RIVERSIDE - A judge has sided with a jury to decide that a defendant should die for killing a Riverside police officer two yea...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has tossed a decade-old suit challenging San Francisco's controversial hotel-conversion ordin...

SAN FRANCISCO - After being arraigned on 25 counts of grand theft, embezzlement and forgery Friday, a former San Francisco per...

LOS ANGELES - The city of Inglewood has filed criminal charges against a man whose attorney notified them only days earlier of...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has decided not to weigh in on whether he should be recused for bias from a...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the hyperpoliticized arena of federal judicial appointments, Connie Callahan may have just the right stuff...

Employment Column - By Laurel G. Kaufer - Employment disputes frequently are infused with intense emotion, which often hinders...

LOS ANGELES - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher gave its reputable bankruptcy practice a boost when it acquired Richard M. Cieri to ...

Forum Column - By James Acret - Licensing laws are anathema to libertarians. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Matthew G. Ball - In the last five months of 2002, state appellate courts decided three cases t...

LOS ANGELES - Brian Lysaght did not mince words describing to a Malibu jury the behavior of Debra Pole and William Fitzgerald ...

SANTA ANA - It's a quarter to five on Tuesday evening and, as thousands of commuters are settling in for another arduous freew...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Daily Journal staff writer Stefanie Knapp has been honored by the California Teachers Association fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Police Commission on Thursday named longtime deputy public defender Kevin Allen as interim ...