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 ...

LOS ANGELES - An alleged gang member was convicted Thursday of assaulting a prosecutor but acquitted of attempted murder in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state attorney general's office has decided not to challenge the reversal of the double-murder conviction...

LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group filed hundreds of unfair competition lawsuits against small-business owners out of greed, not i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick O'Hern, who handled government contracts and other transactional work as deputy chief counsel for Law...

SAN FRANCISCO - Breaking with 150 years of tradition, state officials announced Thursday that they have hired LexisNexis to p...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Justice found that Los Angeles County's three juvenile halls are in violation of numerous...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in San Diego got what they wanted earlier this year when a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco lawyer says the U.S. Supreme Court forced him to junk his plan to challenge a judge's $25 mil...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to step into the long-running battle over what constitutes Napa...