WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a permanent injunction barring a disgruntled former client of John...

Among the austere, dark-suited ranks of her mediator counterparts, Catherine Yanni's pixie-cut blond hair and appreciation for...

Vince Herron and Mike Abelson really, really liked working at Latham & Watkins. So when they left to open business litigat...

When The Scene recently told a friend about the National Center for Lesbian Rights anniversary dinner May 14, the response was...

LOS ANGELES - Freddy Miranda grew up in the juvenile system. By 9, he had been arrested twice for petty theft. At 11, he got c...

EXTRA Column - Securities Litigation - By Richard Johnson - When a public company discloses that it must "restate" audited fin...

In 1995, Bill Gates wrote in his book "The Road Ahead" that in 10 years, computers "will be able to read your lips and listen ...

It's been a busy month for Los Angeles' Musick, Peeler & Garrett. The firm added two partners and an associate to its thre...

At the Harriett Buhai Family Law Center's 21st annual theater benefit on May 7, guests sat down to a performance of playwright...

Daniel Morris, a former partner at Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson & Horn in Burlingame, has put his trusts in San Jo...

INDUSTRIAL SANTA MONICA - Brentwood Equities LLC purchased a 26,564-square-foot industrial building at 1610 Colorado from Sie...

The family of Gordon Willingham, who died at age 78 while receiving medical treatment at USC Kenneth Norris Cancer Hospital, r...

The San Francisco office of Heller Ehrman has snagged partners Karen Dempsey and Nora Gibson for the firm's corporate securiti...

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris and a coalition of Chinese community services are calling illegal gambling addic...

In a patent trial that may have far-reaching implications for California electronics companies, attorneys from Orrick, Herring...

Allegations of "barbarous punishment" by a preschool teacher against two mentally retarded students initially shocked the San ...

Anti-abortion activists prevented from demonstrating at Long Beach City College saw their lawsuit against the school district ...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Dov Waisman and James Harris - The abuse of discretion standard is perhaps the most commonly...

Letter to the Editor - The Daily Journal's recent report on a misguided lawsuit challenging interpreter guidelines for federal...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for property owners' rights advocate Gordon P. Gitlen, who made a name for himself def...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office can move forward with its prosecution of litigator Pierce H. O'Donnel...

EXTRA Feature - Enron. Krispy Kreme. Time Warner. Homestore. WorldCom. Corporate America has kept California's top securities ...

LOS ANGELES - The state's top jurist says Californians remain reluctant to respond to jury summonses despite efforts to make s...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Georgia is the new Florida. And Florida, as everyone knows, has been forever stigmatized as the new...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bible hasn't been particularly kind to the image of amphibians. In Exodus, for example, an infestation of...

Winston & Strawn further broadened its litigation team with the recent acquisition of Stephen Smerek from Quinn Emanuel Ur...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a Chinese woman may qualify for political asylum in ...

LOS ANGELES - Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock. Slicing his way through traffic with the wind whipping past his ears and a caco...

INDUSTRIAL SANTA FE SPRINGS - EnerSys signed a five-year, $1.1-million lease for a 32,000-square-foot industrial building at 1...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Alan J. Heinrich, Wendy Marantz Levine and Ted M. Sichelman - Recent cases a...