SAN BERNARDINO - The state Judicial Council has earmarked $320 million for a new courthouse for San Bernardino County, which h...

Colloquially called "floorless convertibles," "toxic convertibles," "junk equity" or "death spiral convertibles," these terms ...

SAN FRANCISCO - At a ceremony in Beijing today, Thelen Reid & Priest is expected to receive a license to practice law in C...

LOS ANGELES - Hillary Hamilton starts every weekday over breakfast with her young son Owen, but once the boy's nanny arrives, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - You could say EchoStar Communications Corp. has had a bad month. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Although no longer charged with the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, John Mark Karr will probably head back to Calif...

FRESNO - Note to any attorney scheduled to appear before Fresno County Superior Court Presiding Judge Edward O. Sarkisian: Tak...

SAN BERNARDINO - Bill Shapiro has no intention of ditching his job as a personal-injury and product-liability lawyer. He loves...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than 35,000 people are headed to the Nevada desert in the coming week for the counterculture party and so...

SAN DIEGO - A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a $250,000 jury verdict for a former San Diego police officer who cla...

Erin Park's recent article (Daily Journal, Aug. 3) mischaracterized the role of the Los Angeles city attorney's office in revi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius expanded its employee stock ownership plan practice to San Francisco last week wit...

LOS ANGELES - Transactional attorney Ronen Elad has joined DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary as a partner in its Century City office...

LOS ANGELES - From Kansas to Korea, attorney Tymothy MacLeod has litigated his way around the world, landing most recently in...

FOCUS COLUMN - In 2005, the total value of all federal securities class settlements, excluding those for Enron, WorldCom and C...

FORUM COLUMN - At last count, there were nine justices on the United States Supreme Court. By any standard arithmetic computat...

Susanne S. Shaw already has left the Orange County Superior Court, but she hasn't left her troubled career behind her. ...

WASHINGTON - The 2006 class of Supreme Court law clerks will be something of a boys club, as just seven of the 36 law clerks-1...

SACRAMENTO - The Democratic leadership in the Assembly has restored 25 judicial slots to a pending bill that would increase th...

LOS ANGELES - Tax attorney Chad C. Coombs has joined the tax credit practice group in the Los Angeles office of Buchalter Neme...

When veteran San Diego County Superior Court Judge Lantz Lewis moved last year from the criminal courts to family law, he worr...

VENTURA - Commissioner Bruce A. Young has a technique he uses when the litigants in his family law courtroom get too argumenta...

McDermott Will & Emery added James W. Soong as of-counsel to the firm's Silicon Valley office. Soong's practice focuses on...

The parents of two young brothers who died when their foster mother left them locked in a car in Lancaster on a sweltering Jul...

The California Supreme Court issued four opinions late last month dealing with Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation...

If not for journalists, fans at baseball stadiums across America might not have spent the summer booing Barry Bonds. ...

SAN DIEGO - One spring afternoon in 1992, Thomas Gniatkowski was knee deep in an arbitration when his secretary burst into the...

Domestic partnership is a family law issue, right? So what does it have to do with employers? A lot. California's domestic par...

Your Aug. 21 article on the recent report assessing regional Habitat Conservation Plans ("Study Questions Effectiveness of Hab...

Unpredictable and continually increasing energy costs show no signs of relenting. During July, high temperatures and resulting...