Credited as Hollywood's first major venue for plays and films, the El Capitan Theatre has screened movies and other shows for ...

Entertainment attorney Alan U. Schwartz launched into cinematic history when his longtime client, director Mel Brooks, include...

LOS ANGELES - Courtesy is often court's casualty. That's why some defense attorneys take notice when Los Angeles Superior Cour...

Paul Escobosa, a partner with Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, recently helped two Mexican immigrants open a downtown San Fr...

Kenneth Cloke is in it for the magic. The veteran mediator, arbitrator, law professor, speaker and author sees his job as bein...

Los Angeles' Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith blew into the windy city this month with the acquisition of Chicago-based W...

Thirty-two years after her brother's death, Zita Cabello-Barrueto says she has seen his alleged murderer brought to justice an...

When corporate transactions partner Mark Wicker told his colleagues he was leaving DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's North County ...

ChevronTexaco Corp. trampled over its competition to snap up smaller California rival Unocal Corp. for $16 billion, pocketing ...

Closer - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Gene Moscovitch - Hybrid cases that allege significant civil damages but take pla...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Rosen - "No Jewish person can sit on a death penalty jury and vote for death." Thus spake an Alam...

SAN FRANCISCO - There is no Kelly Blue Book by which to calculate the value of religious faith, a plaintiffs lawyer told juror...

SANTA ANA - An aggressive public relations campaign to keep the 4th District Court of Appeal from leaving the city has paid of...

LOS ANGELES - When Judge Nancy Wieben Stock gave O.J. Simpson custody of his two young children, outraged friends of his slain...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Eron Ben-Yehuda - Twin girls needed a heart procedure soon after their premature births, but ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tom Shoesmith helped create international practices for Baker & McKenzie, Cooley Godward and Paul, Hasting...

LOS ANGELES - There's a timeworn maxim often bemoaned by critics of derivative TV pitches and rehashed movie scripts that says...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Antonia L. Sequeira - "About" - why would anyone ever wager millions of dollars in l...

SANTA MARIA - Just one week after Michael Jackson's former maid, Blanca Francia, gave damaging testimony, indicating that she ...

INDUSTRIAL RANCHO CORDOVA - An entity of TCC Properties purchased the 120,286-square-foot Mather Business Center at 3324 Math...

Forum Column - By Dan Rhoads and Vince Imhoff - Hussein Tabaja knew he was innocent, but it took the criminal justice system 1...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Moe Keshavarzi - Nearly two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court in Green Tree Financial Corpor...