Services were held Friday for Redondo Beach attorney Alexis Alexandrovitch Fafenrodt, who died Dec. 6 of cancer. He was 62. "...

The Sherman Act , Once considered a relic from a bygone era, has been shown in recent court decisions to have relevance in th...

Comfort Level Gibson Dunn and San Francisco Bar offer help to nonprofits. 16 Every year Arriba Juntos, a nonprofit job traini...

High-Tech Seas Richard Horning works with the Silicon Valley Vikings as they help Swedish companies navigate California water...

By Jeffrey Anderson In 1995, the Washington, D.C.-based Legal Services Corp. tightened its purse-strings on nationwide legal ...

COME TOGETHER Through its pro bono program, Mannis & Phillips contributes to troubled youths' lives while improving office...

There's likely not a lawyer around who hasn't at some point dreamed of leaving the law to become a writer. Doug Dorst , a for...

FORUM The Internal Revenue Code already provides a child-care tax credit to enable parents to work. I propose that Congress e...

San Francisco transactional lawyers who want to use their skills to help underrepresented groups can hook up with the Bay Are...

HOUSE CALL There is an upswing in corporate counsel giving back to their communities by performing pro bono work. By Elizabet...

SAN FRANCISCO - After 22 years, Long & Levit rainmaker Don Carlson will be leaving the firm along with five other partner...

Rodney King's one-time lead civil rights attorney, Milton C. Grimes of Santa Ana, prevailed Thursday in a bench trial of a br...

Fallout continued to flow from the widespread allegations of corruption at the Department of Children and Family Services wit...

A San Fernando judge on Friday made the rare determination that a woman, acquitted two months ago of the murder of her husban...

THE ADVISER Daily overtime is back for many California workers, but what about the flexibility in creative scheduling? By Wil...

Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfonso Bazan, who had a reputation for presiding over challenging cases with meticu...

ADR Profile Full Speed Ahead This energetic San Francisco mediator attempts to motor around resolution roadblocks before medi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A rare San Francisco three-strikes prosecution has been derailed by a judge's decision rejecting two prior co...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge who seized two courtroom sketches from an artist who was working for a Palo Alto newspa...

Taking on a controversial and highly political issue, Los Angeles County Bar Association trustees have decided to oppose the ...

The sponsor of the nation's largest gun show, which sued the county of Los Angeles for enacting an ordinance banning the sale...

A tentative $2.2 million settlement has been agreed to by workers for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in the groundbreaking case...

A judge has dismissed a defamation suit against Troop, Steuber, Pasich, Reddick & Tobey, which a former legal secretary h...

It looks likely that the saga of two employees who won $89.5 million in a discrimination and retaliation suit against Hughes A...

John P. Meck, an environmental law attorney and retired senior counsel for ARCO Products Company, has died. He was 55. Meck di...

R. Dan Murphy, the head of the Los Angeles County district attorney's Pasadena office, has been selected to head DA Gil Garcet...

ROBERT LEVINS/Daily Journal Retired Associate Court of Appeal Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine, left, meets with outgoing Oran...

Santa Monica-based Haight, Brown & Bonesteel has elected seven attorneys to the partnership, the largest crop of new partn...

Retired appellate court Justice Jack E. Goertzen has returned to the court system, but this time he is a defendant in a lawsui...

SAN FRANCISCO - Scores of hydroelectric projects in California may become subject to heightened environmental scrutiny as the ...