A patent gives its owner a right to stop others from making, using and selling the methods and items covered by the patent. Bu...

Hollywood's writers are staring a May 1 contract expiration in the face, but their recent vows to strike are hardly the first ...

For Ryerson Babcock, transferring from Inacom Corp.'s New York office to its Maitland, Fla., branch seemed like a great opport...

Nobody likes a quaint farmers' market more than I do. Along with my purchases of organic sprouts, strawberries and pomelos, I ...

When Adam Tratt was laid off from his dot-com marketing job in October, he joined the legions of Internet company workers who ...

Using the novel approach of offering online music files legitimately, a reincarnated Scour plans to avoid the billion-dollar ...

Recently, an appellate court held that an initiative totally banning oil drilling applied to a pre-existing project because it...

SANTA ANA - The city of San Diego, slammed with a $94.5 million jury verdict in an inverse condemnation case, filed an appella...

Nearly all venture investing is done in stages, or rounds. Typically, the initial round of financing, usually a convertible pr...

LOS ANGELES - The Century City Chamber of Commerce will honor the law firm of Cox, Castle & Nicholson as its "citizen of t...

The Daily Journal asks attorneys what they think about the life sentence for 14-year-old Lionel Tate. ...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Marshall W. Vorkink, retired trial attorney and former supervisor of Union Pacific...

Lawyers often go from trial to trial or closing to closing without thinking much about their retirement. But, if you force you...

SAN DIEGO - A legal malpractice expert Thursday hailed a state appellate ruling that bars clients from suing their attorneys f...

SAN FRANCISCO - In rare victories for sex offenders facing life sentences, the California Supreme Court and an intermediate ap...

SAN FRANCISCO - Shortly after El Dorado Superior Court Judge Suzanne Kingsbury took over as presiding judge in mid-1999, the n...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area air pollution regulators have refused to hand over detailed information on more than 1,000 pollution ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal court in northern California will launch its Internet-based electronic case filing project April 2...

SANTA ANA - A month after Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas stirred controversy by withdrawing a consumer-protec...

HUNTINGTON BEACH - Charlre-L Jackson won't be on the basketball court Saturday when her high school's basketball team takes th...

Pending before the California Supreme Court is the urgent plea of the state's consumers to resolve a matter the court first ad...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Cohen has followed his former law partner Loretta Lynch to the state Public Utilities Commission, the age...

Business executives and communications directors often face complex situations, involving intense media and public scrutiny. A...

Where is a Web site located? Courts around the world have been grappling with this very issue of jurisdiction in a cyberworld ...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for Samuel Clark Moore Jr., retired presiding judge of the Santa Anita Municip...

The knock on the newspaper business is, "If it bleeds, it leads." Some in the "Fourth Estate" no longer understand that the ex...

SAN FRANCISCO - Women have made tremendous strides in California's legal landscape. Just this week, the 175,000-member State B...

Some law firms do little planning, if any, when it comes to projecting future income and expenses. They have neither budgets n...

In a speech last month before the conservative American Enterprise Institute, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas deliv...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing the bankrupt firm of Graham & James confirmed Wednesday that the firm owes $6 million...