Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - California has almost 85,000 children living in foster care. This is a staggering num...

SAN FRANCISCO - The head of the San Francisco 49ers legal affairs is stepping down at the end the week. Edward T. Goines, gen...

LOS ANGELES - Milberg Weiss partner David Bershad has hired prominent Berkeley-based litigator Cristina C. Arguedas to represe...

Dewey Ballantine has promoted three attorneys in its East Palo Alto office including Jeannine Y. Sano, the managing partner wh...

LOS ANGELES - Stand-up comics had a field day when the nation's highest court agreed to hear the case related to former strip...

SAN DIEGO - In a case that has reminded court administrators statewide of the need for tight controls on handling money, a lo...

LOS ANGELES - A convicted child molester will be given another chance to prove he's not a sexually violent predator, thanks to...

A group of mostly white retired professional baseball players who claim they are victims of reverse discrimination struck out ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The majority of California's top 50 law firms have signed on to the Bar Association of San Francisco's ambitio...

LOS ANGELES - In promotional spots on a Los Angeles public-radio station, the law firm Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & M...

SAN FRANCISCO - J. Tony Serra will soon be heading to federal prison for tax evasion, but in a last hurrah before starting his...

What did a rival company's officials know from their outside lawyers, and when did they know it? Those are the questions Tivo...

LOS ANGELES - Some filmmakers would like to document you studying for the Bar Exam. No pressure. And if you're one of the many...

Focus Column - By Areva D. Martin - 'My son is gifted!" "My son is learning disabled." The peculiar thing about these two st...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday ordered former Gemstar-TV Guide International Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Henr...

LOS ANGELES - An American Bar Association task force charged with protecting attorney-client privilege is turning its attenti...

Nancy Heinen, Apple Computer's general counsel and highest-ranking female executive, has left the Cupertino company after almo...

Publishing her first ruling as a California Supreme Court justice, Carol A. Corrigan on Monday affirmed a death sentence arisi...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling is beginning to wind down. Te...

SAN JOSE - Employees in California enjoy broad freedom under the law to move between jobs, but that is not stopping companies ...

WASHINGTON - Driven into action by rising gas prices, a bipartisan group of senators is pushing legislation that would toughen...

LOS ANGELES - William T. Quicksilver will take over from Paul H. Irving as chief executive and managing partner of Los Angeles...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge tentatively tossed out a wrongful-termination lawsuit Monday filed by the former public relation...

Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Alison L. Krumbein - Last month, the 5th District Court of Appea...

SACRAMENTO - U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott did something unusual after he took office three years ago overseeing a district tha...

Forum Column - By Jeff Kichaven - Last month, a remarkable thing happened at the Spring Conference of the American Bar Associa...

Focus Column - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson - In the United States, Section 10 of the Federal Arbitration Act provides certain grou...

Letters to the Editor - In their article "'Harper' Protects Gay Sensitivities, Not Free Speech" (April 28 Daily Journal), Robe...

The general counsel for the Screen Actors Guild, David White, will step down after his contract ends next month. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Davis Wright Tremaine's San Francisco office unit acquired a veteran labor and employment practitioner to help...