The owners of two health-related Web sites reached a confidential settlement last week in their long-running battle over domai...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips will acquire real estate litigation firm Berger & Norton on Sept....

Veteran litigator Theodore Olson rejoined former colleagues at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher last Monday after announcing his re...

An appeals court recently allowed two companies to pursue claims that a law firm tried to illegally stifle competition by fili...

Column - Adviser - By John C. Woolley - The first interview with your client is extremely important to your mediation success....

The Scene recently joined the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California for its 10th annual Law Luncheo...

Column - Closer - By Sharon J. Berman - "Its summer time, and the living is easy," as the song says. Even in California, summe...

Forum Column - By Marianne Baker Bolduc - Two weeks ago, the Reuters news agency carried a story about 50 mothers who chanted ...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - In a famous experiment during the summer of 1971, social psychologist Philip Zimbardo cr...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Heather N. Mewes - The "doctrine of equivalents" is the last stand for a patentee. I...

LOS ANGELES - A motorist whose failure to stop for stalled traffic caused a pileup that resulted in the death of a Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - State appeal court judges recently plugged a legal loophole through which thousands of potential Proposition 6...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Hollywood is about telling stories: how the crack investigative team catches the television kill...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor has dropped plans to appeal a judge's order granting a new trial to two men convict...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court, in one of the first rulings since a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in March limitin...

SAN BERNARDINO - Lawyers for San Bernardino have moved to close down a controversial city strip club, alleging that some of th...

Corporate partner Scott Stanton is leaving Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich to join Morrison & Foerster's San Diego office...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo filed suit Friday against Fleishman-Hillard Inc., charging that the i...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne Chang said she feels lucky to have roots in Hawaii, but sometimes is ...

LOS ANGELES - An unusually high number of California lawyers - more than 4,600, compared to fewer than 3,000 last year - are i...

WASHINGTON - William G. Myers III, a controversial nominee for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, on Tuesday likely will b...

SAN FRANCISCO - So far, Attorney General Bill Lockyer has avoided some central questions in the litigation over gay marriage: ...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County is challenging the constitutionality of an initiative backed by its prosecutors and public defen...

SANTA ANA - A woman who said her millionaire husband treated her like "a disposable spouse" by divorcing her after a disfiguri...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has chosen a veteran of his political mentor's judicial appointments process to help h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Where does the buck stop? That's the question many lawyers would like answered as a San Francisco federal judg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Donald Rehkopf, one of nation's top lawyers handling military defense cases in the wake of the war on terror, ...

Employment Column - By Lin Meyer - Today there seems to be a pervasive attitude amongst lawyers that everyone is out for thems...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin, Jr. - Cities and counties sometimes attempt to revoke land-use, building or...

Forum Column - By Mary Alexander - Trial lawyers often face criticism - even in the current presidential campaign, for example...