One of Los Angeles' largest law firms and the city's only female citywide officeholder were among the recipients of the Abby J...

By Amy K. Spees Former state Environmental Protection Agency staffer Michael Buck, having built McDonough Holland & Allen...

Closer Column - By Ray Jurado - When a firm - a corporation or public entity - becomes aware of an alleged breach of internal ...

It takes a skilled lawyer to compel his corporate counterpart to reconsider a "lost cause" client. Take disability-law legend ...

INDUSTRIAL LONG BEACH - Kendrick Construction purchased a 219,000-square-foot industrial building at 100 W. Victoria St. from ...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Seemingly small tiffs - over the height of fences, the color of outdoor paint schemes, barking dogs - ofte...

A cluster of desktop computer makers in Asia and America exhaled in relief after Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District...

Luminaries of the legal, political and entertainment world gathered this month to honor a married couple, both lawyers, for th...

Bryan Cave gave a boost to its Southern California real estate practice in November by snaring partner Linda S. Koffman from t...

The addition of nine attorneys to Costa Mesa's Rutan & Tucker helped the county's largest law firm strengthen its grip on...

WASHINGTON - Recent changes to judicial ethics guidelines could make it easier for federal judges to accept expense-paid trip...

Forum Column - By David I. Levine - A bare majority of the state Supreme Court has given cautious endorsement to the catalyst ...

SAN DIEGO - In a move described as "aggressive," San Diego's new city attorney will weigh in this week on the controversy swi...

The city of Newport Beach has made its first city-attorney appointment in 20 years, and for the first time, it's a woman. Acti...

SAN FRANCISCO - Townsend and Townsend and Crew has filed a lawsuit against a New York insurance company seeking $273,305 in w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Death row inmate Donald Beardslee had a roller coaster Thursday. Within the space of a few hours last week, a...

SANTA ANA - A homeowner who refuses to mediate a dispute and later wins in court cannot receive attorney fees, a state appella...

Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - The U.S. Supreme Court soon will decide how far government can go in regulating privat...

LOS ANGELES - Michelle Williams Court has taken over as director of litigation at Bet Tzedek, one of the nation's premier pro...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - When the subject of California's geographic centers for cutting-edge technology comes up, Orange...

By John Ryan Daily Journal Staff LOS ANGELES - Roy Green could face the death penalty for allegedly stabbing to death a prison...

NEW YORK - Like many others in this city, Chief Judge Jane A. Restani of the U.S. Court of International Trade likes to stay ...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Burris was motoring east across the Bay Bridge in his canary-yellow Fiat convertible on St. Patrick's Day...

SAN FRANCISCO - A controversial five-refinery pollution deal between Chevron and the federal government won't be immediately ...

SAN JOSE - Karyn Sinunu, the trusted assistant to Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy, has decided to run for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Six months of wrangling over the fate of a lawsuit against Clifford Chance ended abruptly Friday, when the Lo...

SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature's judiciary committees will have fresh leadership during the session that opens in January...

Column - Employment Law - By Lin M. Meyer - Since enactment of Bounty Hunter legislation permitting plaintiffs' lawyers to rec...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Steve Mullins - California corporations, limited-liability companies and partnerships soon wi...

Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - What do marijuana, bald eagle feathers, domestic violence, guns near schools and homegr...