Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - September 2005 marks the second anniversary of the California Judicial...

Letter to the Editor - I write in response to the article "Influence of Mysterious Legal Group Raises Eyebrows in Washington" ...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - "[N]othing in our opinion precludes any [s]tate from placing further restrictions on its...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gilbert C. Alston, who is credited with opening up the state's courts t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Fisher, a well-known San Francisco trial lawyer of the old school, died at home Friday of lung cancer. T...

LOS ANGELES - An increasing number of European companies are setting their sights overseas, snapping up U.S. companies at a ra...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has decided to get involved in a closely watched abortion dispute at the U.S. Supreme Co...

SAN JOSE - Three weeks after officially entering the 2006 race for Santa Clara County district attorney, Superior Court Judge...

LOS ANGELES - In a scathing rebuke of a Kern County trial court's decision to terminate dependency for a special-education tee...

LOS ANGELES - A dispute over ownership of a Picasso painting stolen by Nazis, which spawned a lawsuit that spanned three year...

Securities Law Supplement - Three years after the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act became law, practitioners are still sifting thro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wal-Mart Inc. ran into trouble Monday when it asked the 9th U.S. Circuit of Court of Appeals to throw out a c...

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney who led the losing legal challenge to the constitutionality of the California Coastal Commission...

SACRAMENTO - The state's schools superintendent and a teachers union sued Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Tuesday, claiming he viol...

LOS ANGELES - An inked merger between athletic shoe companies Reebok and Adidas is expected to face scrutiny by regulators in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel stepped in Tuesday to referee a war between Sacramento taxi companies fighting over ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Canadian company's $1 billion free-trade complaint stemming from California's ban on the gasoline additive M...

LOS ANGELES - Ask anyone in professor George Gliaudys' legal-writing class, where most of the students are Los Angeles County ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Calling her a good, hardworking jurist who has apologized for her mistake, several Sonoma County attorneys say...

LOS ANGELES - Not long after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judson Morris Jr. took the Municipal Court bench, Judge Michael ...

DLA Piper Gray Cary and Cooley Godward attorneys represented Protein Design Labs in its collaboration with Biogen Idec. Latham...

OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO - Newmark Realty Capital secured a $44 million financing for the CNET Networks Inc. world headquarters a...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge late Monday set aside a $6.5 million verdict against the county and ordered a new trial in ...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - When the 15th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act was celebrated on July 26...

Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Mark Ivener - Reminiscent of the late 1990s, big-name mergers are in the news: Proctor &...

Forum Column - By Lawrence C. Levine - Putting aside for a moment the emotion and rhetoric that surround the notion of same-se...

Letter to the Editor - In "Thomas, Unbridled, Would Gut 200 Years of Precedent" (Aug. 5 Daily Journal), professor Erwin Chemer...

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services are scheduled for U.S. District Judge William J. Rea, who died last week after a brief illnes...

LOS ANGELES - Federal Judge John T. Ward thinks his "rocket docket" reputation, which draws patent cases to his Texas courtro...

LOS ANGELES - Ronald Katz, a Los Angeles inventor, has filed a patent infringement suit in the Eastern District of Texas again...