Ryan H. Rainey once was a star federal prosecutor who handled child abuse cases and investigated civil rights violations withi...

A conservative public interest law firm in Sacramento is getting a million dollars richer at the expense of the city of San Fr...

Federal prosecutors announced a surprising deal Monday in which Henry Samueli, the billionaire Broadcom co-founder, admitted t...

Arnold & Porter has nabbed Beth Parker as a partner in its San Francisco office. Parker, who was previously a partner at B...

Bingham McCutchen is tempering a perpetual problem for its clients - escalating legal fees - by rejiggering an old solution: h...

Proceedings in the so-called "Bratz vs. Barbie" trial looked more like a CSI episode than a fight between two dolls Frid...

News organizations must be prepared to assert their editorial independence, and defend it, even at the cost of alienating a se...

Patient dumping is a dangerous and disgraceful but predictable accompaniment to the "market-driven" health care system in the ...

A group of strippers has filed suit against 19 of Los Angeles' largest gentlemen's clubs for what their lawyer is calling the ...

Climate change is spawning new rules and regulations, as well as the inevitable threat of litigation - and it is carving out n...

A recent 9th Circuit decision has potentially made laying off public employees a daunting task, write Richard C. Bolanos and C...

Looming state budget cuts that could dissuade doctors and pharmacists from treating the poor and elderly will face their first...

Nearly everybody in the Southern California mediation community knows the face of mediator Geoff Sharp but not too many have m...

Is it reasonable to keep a front lawn in arid Los Angeles lush and green? ...

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski has hired prominent criminal defense lawyer Mark C. Holscher, the Daily Journal has learned. ...

Kevin Enright reveres the law profession and gives it his all as a San Diego County Superior Court judge. He expects lawyers a...

Plexiglas frames an Air Force One flight jacket in Orange County Superior Court Judge James E. Rogan's chambers. ...

Bankruptcy Judge Ernest Robles is prepared to hold court wherever he happens to be, using cameras, phones and the Internet to ...

The U.S. Justice Department announced several major developments in its battle on mortgage fraud Thursday, including the forma...

SAN DIEGO - With a unanimous vote, the Port of San Diego Board of Port Commissioners recently approved the adoption of a trans...

In a victory for workers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an employer or insurance company that administrates an em...

As several recent cases demonstrate, although the subject matter cases involving lews acts can be quite inflammatory, courts g...

Business lawyer Richard Blasco took his construction law firm, formerly called Hunt, Ortmann, Blasco, Palffy & Rossell, to...

Retired Santa Clara County Judge John Flaherty does what he loves in retirement — settling cases. ...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association's board of trustees Wednesday decided against taking a stand on a controversial resolut...

It's time for SAG to put its full efforts into crafting the best deal it can get, rather than try to derail the AFTRA primetim...

When an employer declines to undertake an employee's defense and a third-party suit proceeds to judgment, the employee's indem...

Those who decry the Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo detainees would do well to heed Benjamin Franklin's admonition: "They...

When the Lakers need a last second basket, they look to league MVP Kobe Bryant. Behind the scenes, when team executives need h...

"Whiting-out" a date stamp on a fax. Blocking file names on a computer hard drive. Asking employees through e-mails ...