The Daily Journal hosted a reception Tuesday evening for California's leading intellectual property lawyers. The event at the ...

Jewish community honors LA lawyers for philanthropic service ...

Attorneys for McDermott Will & Emery LLP fought to preserve the firm's legal fees at a hearing Friday from a case the firm...

While the low price of international oil has caused some domestic energy companies to declare bankruptcy recently, others that...

Three years after Congress overhauled the system for reviewing patents for validity through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offi...

Loyola's Fidler Awards honor contribution to criminal justice ...

The flamboyant Sacramento-based trial lawyer Lawrance Bohm tried to convince a Los Angeles jury to award damages for a fired s...

The California Supreme Court held in a 4-3 decision last August that a criminal defendant must speak in order to remain silent...

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California's strict judicial ethics rules prohibit judges from publicly commenting on any pending case, no matter how much the...

Whether your claim is for a dangerous condition on public property, an eminent domain action, or breached of contract, claims ...

Recent California legislation and cases have changed the way lawyers understand and apply testamentary capacity in estate plan...

I wonder if the most amazing thing about "Guantanamo Diary" is that its 466 pages were written by hand by Mahamedou Ould Slahi...

Federal Arbitration Inc. Los Angeles ...

Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye traveled to three Southern California schools to discuss the importance of equality and teamwork with e...

Cozen O'Connor PC announced Thursday it will add 60 attorneys from Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick and Pearson LLP, while also gr...

The California State Bar Court recommended last week a San Francisco personal injury attorney be disbarred for misappropriatin...

In a study, the American Bar Association found 21 root causes of, across all practice areas. Here's three perticularly importa...

A bankruptcy law firm has filed a putative class action claiming civil rights violations after an e-commerce company terminate...

A split among the three Gov. Jerry Brown appointees to the state Supreme Court has allowed a sex offender law - which critics ...

Among lawyers disciplined recently, three were sanctioned because they had beendisciplined in other states, and five were disc...

Though California once led the nation in handing sentences of life without parole to juvenile offenders, the state had now beg...

California criminal convictions may be erased from defendants' record in two ways, pursuant to Penal Code Section 1385 or Sect...

Celebrities are known for seeking alternative options for having a baby, but in the last week alone, two high-profile stories ...

District Attorney Jackie Lace has requested $928,000 in funding to create a unit dedicated to reviewing all claims of innocenc...

A Delaware federal judge struck down two patents held by Intellectual Ventures Management LLC Wednesday after finding the clai...

The state Supreme Court denied review Wednesday of a series of cases brought by law firms against the City of San Francisco th...

General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of DocuSign Inc. San Francisco ...

A female employee at Lucasfilm Ltd. claims she was the victim of gender and age discrimination when was fired following the co...