SAN FRANCISCO - To its admirers, Menlo Park's Venture Law Group revolutionized the practice of corporate law in Silicon Valley...
Forum Column - By Miles Christian Daniels - Gay and lesbian people have had reason to rejoice since the decision in Lawrenc...
Forum Column - By Miranda D. Junowicz - Public condemnation of the statements of individual judges or justices ought to be rar...
SACRAMENTO - The state Senate approved a bill Tuesday to clarify that employers may be held liable for sexual harassment of th...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday removed two more obstacles to California's recall election when it appr...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan said Tuesday his decision to support a defense motion to free accused kille...
REDWOOD CITY - After some 27 years on the job, San Mateo Superior Court Commissioner Joseph Gruber was bound to generate some ...
SAN FRANCISCO - State logging rules that environmentalists had attacked as allowing drastic reductions in protections for rive...
Intellectual Property
Circuit Panel: State's Courts Can Judge in Internet Case
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - In its first ruling on Internet jurisdiction, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Tuesday that Californ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday removed U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco from presiding over...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Feels Lucky To Be Dedicated to His Job
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Mitchell L. Beckloff says he thinks of his good fortune almost every mor...
LOS ANGELES - Juan Manrique is pinning his hopes on a dream - literally. The son of a murdered political dissident from Guatem...
SACRAMENTO - Don't tell Fremont divorce lawyer Bob Lynn Edwards Jr. he's got no chance of winning the Oct. 7 recall election t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Venture Law Group, the high-flying darling of Silicon Valley's dot-com boom, will merge with San Francisco's H...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday reversed 100 death sentences in Arizona, Idaho and Montana. In an 8-3 dec...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Members of the State Bar Board of Governors regularly deny that there are "outsiders" and "insid...
Column Marketing By Gail Reysa It's hard to ignore the fact that more and more law firms are hiring in-house marketing directo...
Roxanne Davis and Phillip Maltin have formed Santa Monica's Davis Maltin Law Firm, which specializes in employment and labor i...
MailFrontier Inc. has raised $10 million to help with its spam-fighting crusade. The Palo Alto company, which provides anti-sp...
Partners Pamela Martinson in Palo Alto and Peter Carson in San Francisco are the latest high-profile departures from Cooley Go...
More than 1,200 Los Angeles-area plaintiffs' attorneys will converge on Las Vegas this weekend for the Consumer Attorneys Asso...
Trying to attract more couples as dinner guests, an Italian restaurant chain came out with tongue-in-cheek ads that showed a m...
San Diego-based Kemia Inc. has completed its first round of financing, bolstering the biotechnology company's ability to move ...
A number of partners could have led Thelen, Reid & Priest's San Francisco office, according to Mark Weitzel, vice chairman...
Personal Injury & Torts
Attorney Successfully Defends Elderly Driver in Injury Case
By Joan Osterwalder
San Francisco attorney Debra F. Bogaards successfully defended a car accident case seemingly against all odds. Her client was ...
John R. Tate has joined the Los Angeles office of Davis Wright Tremaine as of-counsel. Tate, a partner with Arter & Hadden...
LOS ANGELES - One wants to legalize marijuana. Another has the same name as a fitness guru but wants to slim down California's...
When attendees of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles enter the Mandalay Bay Resort and Hotel this weekend for t...
Fulbright & Jaworski has hired trademark lawyer John "Rocky" C. Rawls III from Jones Day. Rawls, who was with the Los Ange...
Intellectual Property
Using Trademark Clearance Process Will Protect Client
By Contributing Writer
Column - Intellectual Property - By Miriam Beezy and Herb Williams - Many in business believe that developing a catchy name or...