Bullivant Houser Bailey, a midsize West Coast firm based in Portland, Ore., acquired five-attorney San Francisco law firm Jaco...

In a tentative ruling Thursday, San Diego County Superior Court Judge Ronald L. Styn found that eligibility rules for the coun...

State Attorney General Jerry Brown will present Justice Arthur Gilbert with the Beacon of Justice Award on Wednesday in recogn...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Philip N. Feder, leader of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker's highly regarded real e...

Actor Keith Carradine testified Friday that he was harassed during the time his former wife had Anthony Pellicano investigate ...

Focus Column - By Judy Holzer Hersher - Setting the number of peremptory challenges in all but the most basic two-party civil ...

Pepperdine University School of Law this week will bring together a range of legal thinkers to discuss free speech law in the ...

Forum Column - By Sujatha Ganesan - The Recording Industry Association of America’s strategy of suing file-sharers only create...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - George T. Caplan, chair of Kaye Scholer's Los Angeles litigation department, left the firm ...

The state Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice met Friday for its final hearing on the death penalty. ...

Six Latino judges who were running for re-election without opposition have become the targets of a mysterious write-in campaig...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - A federal shield law would serve the public’s interest in learning about the actions of gover...

The one-sentence Alien Tort Statute is becoming a mighty tool of plaintiffs' attorneys trying to hold American-based companies...

Renewable projects are hitting a logjam that is causing long delays and financial uncertainty for their proponents, according ...

When Sheppard Mullin attorney Kelly L. Hensley wrote a confidential 22-page letter to Costco Wholesale Corp.'s corporate couns...

Presiding Superior Court Judge James F. Reilley has a habit of roaming the halls of the sprawling Butte County courts, singing...

Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage - Aulana L. Peters, former partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles, and Hadi M...

Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings...

Roger A. Denning is second-chairing a case featuring two titans of golf equipment, who are swinging away at each other in a pa...

After San Francisco firm Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner announced the dismissal of 26 associates and 85 staff firmwid...

Focus Column - By George Berger - All sides involved in a construction project should craft detailed contract procedures in ad...

Employment Column - By Regina A. Petty, Michael S. Kalt and Theresa Osterman Stevenson - A recent state Supreme Court case det...

John D. Weiss has parlayed his middle-child negotiation skills into a career as a very low-key employment mediator. ...

The Japanese American Bar Association of Greater Los Angeles next week will recognize key figures in the legal fight against t...

A federal jury awarded a woman $827,500 in damages after it found her former employer failed to protect her from sexual assaul...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has announced that one of its senior attorneys, Stanley W. Levy, will serve as the volunteer nat...

Letter to the Editor - On March 5, the Daily Journal published an article (“A Milberg Plaintiff Waits for His Check; Judge Lik...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has whittled a list of candidates to fill the regional director vacancy in the San Fran...

In a mixed ruling, a federal judge in Los Angeles has allowed a lawsuit challenging the prolonged detention of immigrants to m...

Fourm Column - By Ricardo J. Soto- The current policy giving high-school journalists unbridled discretion to exercise their fr...