LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence of the lone Iranian on death row, finding that the last-minu...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County appellate court has upheld a judge's change-of-venue ruling, paving the way for jury selection t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hot off the presses at Boalt Hall: Dean Christopher Edley has a problem with painkillers. ... Female students ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Matthew Larrabee, a career litigator at Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, took over as chairman of the Sa...

LOS ANGELES - A 27-year-old murder suspect facing life in prison slashed his defense attorney's arm with a razor blade during ...

SACRAMENTO - State appellate judges, federal judges and lawyers fondly recalled Monday the times they shared with the late 3rd...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday declined to reduce the sentence of notorious scammer Rex DeGeorge, the former Beverly ...

LOS ANGELES - In an effort to get more police out pounding the beat, LAPD Chief William Bratton is trying to pare the departme...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland Diocese could pay much higher damage awards to victims of priests' sexual abuse, based on an Alame...

Calling her new firm's commitment to bolstering its local private equity practice a major draw, partner Dulcie Brand left Jone...

When Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partners Bill Wegner and Irwin Sentilles decided to launch the firm's first pro bono project ...

When DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary approached Los Angeles real estate finance attorney Steven A. Fein to offer him a job, he say...

Back-to-back victories for Gordon & Rees' San Francisco employment law practice have the regents of the University of Cali...

EXTRA Closer Column - By David T. Vanalek - When I started practicing law in 1998, few attorneys were using mobile devices in ...

LOS ANGELES - Will Grignon doesn't make a big deal about it, but everybody else seems to. The Kirkland Ellis associate is bli...

Construction litigator Chris Roux hit a home run recently for American Bridge Co., which sued Korean conglomerate Hyundai over...

INDUSTRIAL HAYWORD - Jonathan Soffer of Cohen Financial secured a 10-year, $11.5 million debt refinancing for FedEx for a 45,0...

A traditional Chinese lion dance accompanied by the clanging of gongs kicked off the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Assoc...

When software firm PlaceWare developed a product allowing conference meetings to take place over the Internet, fellow develope...

Conrad Breece has spent the last two years bringing reasonably priced Swedish furniture to Northern California - but he's not ...

San Diego pharmaceutical company MediciNova raised $113.2 million in an initial public offering on the Osaka Stock Exchange, b...

China, with its burgeoning economic growth, has become a popular destination for California law firms recently. Santa Rosa-bas...

It's no secret that the Star Trek television franchise has devoted fans. When NBC canceled the original series after its secon...

SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has blistered a Los Angeles immigration judge for filing a...

When the lights go down in the city, And the rain falls on the bay ... The Scene did twist the lyrics a bit, but it was a cold...

Employment litigator David Wolds says it was "a significant decision indeed" to leave his old firm, San Diego's Merrill Schult...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - What possible relevance can there be for the entertainment industry in the isolated and unpub...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - "How clean is clean?" That's the $64,000 question at contaminated site...

Forum Column - By Andrew Love - In 1984, an Orange County jury sentenced Thomas Thompson to death for the rape and murder of G...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Like millions of Americans, James C. Sturdevant is a credit card holder. Sturdevant's also a law...