SAN FRANCISCO - The impending merger between San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and New York-based Dewey Balla...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco said Wednesday that she would grant preliminary approval of a $65 million set...

SAN FRANCISCO - Incoming Santa Clara District Attorney Dolores Carr has hired her former bench colleague, Superior Court Judge...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cheryl A. Frank was a professor, had a steady diet of pro bono work and was just starting to see her family la...

J. William McLafferty began a two-year term Tuesday as presiding judge of the Santa Barbara County Superior Court. Arthur A. G...

OAKLAND - Neutral Marjory F. Gibson mediates disputes much like she would a heated argument among her children.

A San Diego church celebrated the First Amendment alongside Christmas last month. The constitutional merriment came as the cit...

FORUM COLUMN - By Alan I. Cyrlin - Gerald Ford is remembered for pardoning Richard Nixon and playing center in college footbal...

LOS ANGELES - In the waning months of 2006, a steady stream of federal prosecutors in Los Angeles, among them U.S. Attorney De...

FOCUS COLUMN - By William F. Sullivan and Johanna S. Wilson - A recent decision by the 2nd Circuit in a massive securities cla...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether employers can use hidden cameras t...

LOS ANGELES - After three decades of the same leadership, a new managing partner took the reins Jan. 1 at Knobbe Martens Olson...

SANTA ANA - As far as Gerald A. Klein is concerned, the armed robbery of his Newport Beach law firm was one of the stupider cr...

SACRAMENTO - David F. Levi, chief of the federal court in Sacramento, has been named the next dean of Duke Law School. ...

It's not everyday that a man who agrees to spend nearly two decades in prison for seditious conspiracy later accuses his own l...

OAKLAND - When attorney William F. Marini recently raised his voice in exasperation with opposing counsel, Alameda County Supe...

PASADENA - If Milan Smith's unanimous confirmation to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals isn't enough proof of his wide bip...

Phil Esbenshade earned money for law school on the professional skateboarder circuit. Now he’s a child-support lawyer for Tula...

FORUM COLUMN - By Neal D. Mollen - Some of the most difficult constitutional questions the U.S. Supreme Court faces arise when...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Brett A. Berman - What happens when two men claim to be the father of the same child?...

LOS ANGELES - Despite a raging stock-option scandal, a study released Tuesday reports that securities-fraud class actions file...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marriott International Inc. has agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle a class action brought by hotel employee...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR - The Nov. 20, 2006, Daily Journal incorrectly stated that the jury in the Raiders lawsuit against the Co...

SAN JOSE - While federal prosecutors and securities regulators continue their probes of a hundred companies for improperly bac...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wanted: A good communicator with an understanding of the problems faced by minority lawyers. ...

WASHINGTON - With Republicans in charge, Congress didn't spend much time on a proposal to make criminals out of corporate exec...

SAN JOSE - Attorneys working for corporate giants in California found themselves in hot water in 2006, and in some cases, they...

SAN JOSE - The credibility of the special panel that investigated Apple Computer's stock-option-granting practices may influen...

Lawyer Complements Her Practice With Weekly Sessions After Work Twisting and Twirling Upside Down While Hanging From Silk Shee...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Lisa M. Martens and Gregory M. Krakau - Trademark counterfeiting reaches much further than watches, but new ...