For almost six months, Kenneth Stipanov was a man without a firm. The San Diego real estate lawyer's two-attorney partnership,...

SAN BERNARDINO - Every day, Tara Reilly rides herd. The San Bernardino drug court judge first coaxes the sheriff into lending...

At a recent conference, the president of the Southern California Mediation Association spoke out from the audience to criticiz...

Soka University's recent agreement to sell 588-acres of woodlands in the heart of the Santa Monica Mountains was the culminati...

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal's Los Angeles office began the spring by hiring a young, rising star and a veteran attorney ...

Losing 14 attorneys in San Francisco last year barely put a dent in the stronghold Morrison & Foerster has on the No. 1 s...

Two years after West Hollywood deemed animal declawing surgeries cruelty to animals, the California Veterinary Medical Associa...

Valley Outdoor Inc., a Southern California company specializing in outdoor advertising, has sued the Southland billboard compa...

Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - Shuffling out of the movie theater last weekend, I emitted a silent scream, frustrat...

LOS ANGELES - Campbell M. Lucas, who became one of the most sought-after entertainment mediators in Hollywood following a 20-y...

Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Steven A. Lauer and Dale Marquart - Many corporations today struggle to manage a multitude o...

SACRAMENTO - California, a national leader in protecting consumer privacy, is poised again this year to pioneer legislation t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster, eager to take advantage of a surging high-tech market, has hired venture capital for...

Attorney John Fallat was taking a big bite out of spam when he decided to go after corporate giant Kraft Foods Inc. for allege...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi has a plan to keep legendary defense attorney J. Tony Serra out of ...

LOS ANGELES - The Beverly Hills business litigation boutique Browne & Woods has added its politically connected partner E...

LOS ANGELES - The ACLU has filed a claim for damages against the city of Santa Barbara on behalf of a man arrested for distur...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Amy K. Spees - Mark Hennigh, managing partner of San Francisco's Greene Radovsky Maloney &...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel is having second thoughts about its ruling a year ago that tossed out a Califor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Courts continue to wrestle with how to define whether capital murder defendants are retarded. In three succes...

MAKEUP RULE REVISITED - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an en banc hearing Friday to a female bartender who was ...

INDUSTRIAL STOCKTON - Fleenor Co. Inc. signed a 10-year, $3.19 million lease for a 130,200-square-foot industrial building at...

Employment Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the 1...

Letter to the Editor - In his commentary ("In America, History of Secularism Begins With Constitution," April 25 Daily Journal...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state lawyers and judges union has to follow the rules in its ongoing beef over the hiring of rival hearing...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. and Bryan W. Wenter - In Hafen v. County of Orange, 2005 DJDAR 4005, the...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $700,000 in damages to a 14-year-old boy blinded by a Southern California Edison ...

WASHINGTON - With a showdown over President Bush's stalled judicial nominees looming, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thurs...

SAN FRANCISCO - Is responding to a law firm's questionnaire on the Internet the same as visiting the firm for an initial cons...

SAN DIEGO - Closing the books on the city's controversial mayoral election, three supporters of a write-in candidate Thursday ...