A memorial service is scheduled Saturday in Sunnyvale for Christopher J. Place, a patent litigation associate in Ropes & G...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Here Come the Water Works: Eastern Shortages Signal Need for Changes
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Thomas M. Berliner - The East Coast will need a Western-minded legal and management approach to survive its ...
Criminal
Pellicano Judge Empanels Jury; Prosecution Issues Witness List
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - On the first day of the Anthony Pellicano conspiracy trial Wednesday, a federal judge empaneled the 12 members o...
Forum Column - By I. Nelson Rose - Although proposals abound, lawmakers are generally averse to the expansion of legal gaming....
SACRAMENTO - Captain Scott Jones, commander in charge of the Sacramento County Jail, says he was searching for a way to addres...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento man who was accidentally shot in the buttocks by the police while he was handcuffed in a patrol c...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Swiss bank dropped its lawsuit against a whistle-blower Web site Wednesday, ending a brief but hotly contest...
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury awarded $6.4 million to the San Francisco Bay Guardian Wednesday in the alternative newsweekly's antitr...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city will pay $21 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a 4-year-old girl who was killed wh...
WASHINGTON - Much to the dismay of the tort reform lobby, Congress could give state attorneys general more power to enforce pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Santa Clara County Bar Association may have narrowed down the field, but the verdict is still out on who i...
Web Exclusive - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law...
In a interview with Daily Journal staff writer Jonathan Vanian and associate editor Alexia Garamfalvi, Heller Ehrman Chairman ...
They've spent the past few years steering public companies through new regulatory twists and guiding them through scandal-stre...
Top Northern California
Behind the Deals: Ten Corporate Law Firms That Made Them Happen
By Alexia Garamfalvin
Last year was a whirlwind for the deal makers and the lawyers who advised them. At least the first half of 2007. Now northern ...
Top Northern California
Political Law Firm Is Known as Republican Go-to Law Shop
By David Houstonn
California Republican Party chairmen come and go, but the legal counsel to those chairmen has remained the same for 25 years. ...
Technology professionals working overtime, caregivers and pesky San Francisco legislators who liberally mandate employee benef...
Larry Rabkin in the late 1990s found his firm facing a doomsday mantra - that the mid-sized law firm wouldn't survive in the i...
Coal is out. Solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biofuels, tidal and wave energy are in. Renewable power, with its promise of sl...
Top Northern California
In Bet-the-Company Cases, Northern California Firms Protect Their High-Profile Clients
By Alexia Garamfalvin
From backdating to plaintiff kickbacks, these leading northern California litigation firms handled cases for companies and ind...
SAN JOSE - A Redwood Shores company that provides a free mobile e-mail service has reached a licensing agreement with Microsof...
Six years have passed since a local reporter went to her car and discovered a dead fish, a rose, a bullet-shaped hole in the w...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo announced a $10 million settlement Tuesday with a real estate management company ...
Law Practice
Former Latham Partner and SEC Chair Cox Gets Look-See
By Alexia Garamfalvin
WASHINGTON - With the economy sure to be a major issue in this year's presidential race, some conservatives are calling on pre...
The San Diego Union-Tribune lost its bid in federal appellate court Tuesday to unseal highly sensitive documents in a massive ...
Focus Column - By Richard E. Posell - California's entertainment industry could be changed by a recent ruling allowing manager...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Father-of-Law: Often Overlooked, John Adams Built Foundation for Justice
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Roberto Javier Frisancho - John Adams did more to establish the rule of law and the rights that accompany it...
Oakland Judge Taylor Culver is responsible for settling disputes over child support payments and relishes the opportunity to...
Forum Column - By M. Katherine Baird Darmer - Baseball star Roger Clemens should be charged with perjury if he lied during his...
LOS ANGELES-When Cecilio Covarrubias went to a San Diego County emergency room with chest pains in January, all he could think...