Civil Procedure Column - By Gordon R. Levinson - Summary judgments are a touchy subject among civil litigants in California. S...

With its dark-blue glass and gold lettering, a bottle of Skyy Vodka has a distinct look. A San Francisco photographer claims t...

Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has hired a former venture capital lawyer and chief legal officer for two life sc...

Tom Thomas has left Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly's Palo Alto office to co-chair Pillsbury Winthrop's nanotechnology practi...

Legal administrators in Los Angeles have earned some bragging rights in the Association of Legal Administrators. Their newly f...

Ronald Jacobi, former general counsel of Sony Pictures Entertainment, has joined Bryan Cave's Santa Monica office as of-counse...

San Francisco's Deborah Bailey-Wells says Bay Area lawyers are on the move these days as in no other time in recent memory. Ma...

San Jose technology company Cadence Design Systems Inc. has subleased 45,000 square feet of office space in Oregon to managed ...

Consumer electronics company Sonicblue Inc., which has been entangled in a legal dispute with the entertainment industry over ...

New health care privacy rules taking effect April 14 will give patients new rights but could mean more costs, another layer of...

Venture capitalists have invested $52 million in Matrix Semiconductor Inc. during a fifth round of financing. New investor Tel...

ANAHEIM - Private investors Barry Mycorn and Robert Brown purchased a 24-unit, two-building apartment complex at 1215-1221 N....

Employment Column By Deanna Wilkinson It is 7 p.m. You cannot remember the last time you sat back and relaxed. You have spent ...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Picture this. The trial is over. One of the parties was so eager to be involved that it ...

Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - No provision in the Constitution says that a citizen must never be offended. With the priv...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Scott P. Ward - The "offer to compromise" under Code of Civil Procedure Section 998 has become ...

LOS ANGELES - Retired workers' compensation Judge Ernest Patrick Kiernan has died at the age of 82. Known in the courtroom as ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Daily Journal staff writer Cheryl Romo has won a first place public service reporting award in the A...

LOS ANGELES - Eighteen lawyers in the state have signed up to run for five open seats on the State Bar Board of Governors, inc...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that allows Los Angeles prosecutors to proceed with their cases against priests accused of molesting ch...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Remy, a pioneering Sacramento environmental lawyer who led the nation's first successful ballot initi...

LOS ANGELES - In a year in which state budget cuts are said to imperil the health of the court system, the California Judges A...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city must grant public access to previously secret environmental documents involving plans to expand San ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just one month after she took over from Teveia Barnes as executive director of the Bar Association of San Fra...

SAN FRANCISCO - The consensus at San Francisco's Hall of Justice is that Superior Court Judge Kay Tsenin today will dismiss f...

SAN DIEGO - California cities won a small victory Thursday in their efforts to stem the gun trade when a Southern California f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mary C. Morgan, a former San Francisco municipal court judge who was the nation's first openly lesbian jurist...

SAN JOSE - Specialized domestic violence courts have become common fixtures in the state's legal system over the past decade,...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted 4-3 Thursday to uphold a death sentence even though the defendant's attorn...

LOS ANGELES - Saying budget shortfalls had reduced the courts to "a Third World country stage," Los Angeles Superior Court off...