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...

LOS ANGELES - Continuing its steady rate of expansion, Greenberg Traurig recruited Eric Rowen away from Paul, Hastings, Janofs...

SAN FRANCISCO - Implementing its strategy to increase the number of attorneys in Northern California, Stoel Rives announced la...

LOS ANGELES - Fred I. Bernstein, a prominent entertainment attorney and the former president of Columbia TriStar Motion Pictur...

SAN FRANCISCO - National environmental firm Beveridge & Diamond added two new partners and an associate to its San Franci...

RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County chapter of VIP-Mentors recently presented its Outstanding Attorney Volunteer Award to crimina...

SAN FRANCISCO - The whistle-blower at the center of a class action alleging that AT&T Corp. helps spy on Americans has poo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The sudden departure of Martha Whetstone from her post as executive director of the Bar Association of San Fra...

A federal appellate court's dismissal of an Orange County couple's bid for same-sex marriage rights was met with a sigh of rel...

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking a page from IBM's playbook, the California Legislature could decide this year whether to create a state...

LOS ANGELES - Michael Cypers joined Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's Los Angeles office from Heller Ehrman as a partner. Cypers,...

LOS ANGELES - GE Real Estate has completed its acquisition of Arden Realty Inc., the largest publicly-traded office landlord i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kevin O'Keefe sat hunched over his Powerbook G4 in the ballroom of San Francisco's Pan Pacific Hotel last week...

For the second time in as many weeks, President Bush nominated a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to fill a seat on the...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - As the Bush administration continues to ignore the national health insurance and health ca...

Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler - A large majority of workplace disputes arise from mere interpersonal conflict. Studie...

Focus Column - By Bill Detamore and Bob Dove - When a general counsel is presented with a bill for electronic discovery, a typ...

LOS ANGELES - A Sherman Oaks couple has won a $1.8 million settlement from the city of Glendale and a national anti-fraud orga...

LOS ANGELES - The entire Los Angeles Superior Court bench has been recused from a lawsuit alleging that judges have been colle...

SAN FRANCISCO - International lawyer, scholar, arbitrator and former federal judge Abraham D. Sofaer just got back from a busi...