SAN FRANCISCO - A joint venture of two of the nation's largest chemical companies will plead guilty and pay an $84 million cri...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop and Shaw Pittman are in advanced merger talks that could make good on Pillsbury's 4-year-o...

INDUSTRIAL SAN JOSE - Propel Software signed a lease for a 41,901-square-foot, research-and-development property at 1010 Rinco...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan has joined Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, wher...

Letter to the Editor - Attorney William J. Becker Jr.'s screed against perceived bias by a liberal press, CBS and its story of...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - Last year, a significant amendment to the state anti-SLAPP law took effect, an...

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Barring a last-minute stay, by the time you read this, the state of California will have ...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - In the case of In re Lisa G. , 2005 DJDAR 311 (Cal. App. 4th Dist. Jan. 10, 2004), a thr...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland lawyer who trumpeted a court victory against a drug store chain in a press release Tuesday lost he...

LOS ANGELES - Days after the first federal indictment in the city's pay-to-play scandal, Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chi...

LOS ANGELES - Legal management consulting group Hildebrandt International was acquired Tuesday by information company Thomson ...

LOS ANGELES - Sheriff Leroy Baca said Tuesday that a judge or prosecutor should have intervened to order domestic-violence tre...

SANTA ANA - A Tustin-based company that markets vitamins and other supplements has agreed to pay $3.6 million in mostly civil...

SAN FRANCISCO - Is it a disaster when landslides, traveling a matter of feet over a period of decades, warp fences, bend stre...

SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous federal appellate panel Tuesday shot down a Board of Immigration Appeals Catch-22-style policy tha...

Gordon & Rees' San Diego office scooped up Carlsbad-based intellectual-property boutique Murphey & Murphey Jan. 3. The...

Many view college as a haven for students who want to challenge preconceived notions and traditional attitudes. But a suit rec...

Reaching the presidency of the American Board of Trial Advocates would be a signal honor for almost any litigator. For Donna M...

When New York partner C. Anthony Mulrain decided to pack up his entertainment law practice and move it closer to his West Coas...

Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS recently boosted its neutral ranks on both ends of the state, with the addition o...

INDUSTRIAL CITY OF INDUSTRY - Vistar Corp. signed a 10-year, $12.5 million lease for 184,206-square-foot industrial facility ...

A battle between the city of Stockton and groups representing 250 low-income residents who were displaced from unsafe housing ...

Archipelago Holdings Inc. is acquiring the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, which has been in operation since 1882. Th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even when they screw up, prosecutors enjoy absolute immunity from civil lawsuits. That's why legal observers ...

EXTRA Closer Column - By Harry J. Plotkin - Take note, savvy trial attorneys: Recent research suggests that the ingredients of...

Embracing the spirit of giving that swept the world following December's South Asian tsunami, law firms throughout the nation ...

Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Stuart Miller - In the past few months, the California courts of appeal have issued an unu...

LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for Anthony J. Sousa, a veteran Los Angeles County deputy district attorney. Sousa, a membe...

RANCHO MIRAGE - The owner of an upscale outdoor shopping mall in Rancho Mirage has backed down from a challenge to the desert...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Gone are the days of Big Tobacco and billion-dollar verdicts. Instead, 2004 saw tort reform take...