George Haas thought his life was finally starting to turn around. Haas, 35, requires round-the-clock medical care because of g...

SAN FRANCISCO - The defense attorney for accused cop-killer David Hill has lashed out at U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne F...

LOS ANGELES - Richard McKee never met a secret committee he liked. Which is why McKee, the president of Californians Aware, a ...

Citing continuing expansion of its land use capabilities, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has added William R. Devine ...

SAN DIEGO - An appellate court Friday dealt a setback to a civil suit by six men who were accused of murdering a police office...

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker recently scored five land use lawyers for its Los Angeles headquarters. The group, previ...

Intellectual property partner Kevin Johnson left Fish & Neave's Palo Alto office last month to join Quinn Emanuel Urquhart...

Knobbe Martens Olson and Bear hit the "off" switch in a recent patent litigation filed against one of its clients, San Diego-b...

Equal Justice Works is in the business of creating the next generation of public-interest lawyers. Through its fellowships and...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David Pettit - Can a resident of South Carolina sue an Idaho county for allowing chlorof...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By W. Barry Nixon - The Fair Credit Reporting Act was amended recently in a number of ways by ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Friday recommended death for a Studio City motel operator who strangled four members of a bus...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - Imagine yourself in this situation: As supervisor for a local steel company, you ...

Column - Adviser - By Joel M. Grossman - When lawyers ask for my advice on how to prepare for a mediation, I always tell them ...

SAN FRANCISCO - State Sens. Richard Ackerman and Joe Dunn will receive the Scales of Justice Award from the California Judges ...

LOS ANGELES - State legislators on Friday blasted Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca for shrugging off two-year-old violation...

LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer's campaign against bad nursing homes suffered a setback last week when a San...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Toni Vranjes - Attorney Philip Howard was driving back from a canceled event in Florida to hi...

SAN FRANCISCO - When retired Sacramento appellate Justice Daniel Kolkey appeared before his former colleagues in December, jus...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawrence Stevens may not be much longer for the world of appellate judging. After six years on the 1st Distric...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Alexander H. Williams III, once known for his fiery brand of dispensing justice, says the single biggest d...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle Corp. faces a long, hot summer in federal court. A high-stakes duel opens in U.S. District Court in San...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury convicted former Ukrainian prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko on all 29 counts Thursday of using hi...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Gerald G. Knapton - Quite a few lawyers seem to want to resolve any and all...

Forum Column - By Michael D. Singer - Should employees depend on self-sacrificing corporate employers to guarantee proper enti...

LOS ANGELES - A nationwide search is underway to replace Leigh H. Taylor, dean of Southwestern University School of Law, who w...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday in Walnut Creek for retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Commissioner Robert C....

SAN FRANCISCO - The three men accused of murdering transgender teenager Gwen Araujo were not provoked to kill because she dece...

LOS ANGELES - One "rock-solid" force has kept 17-year-old Allison Bellew from succumbing to the chaos of her upbringing. The t...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky J. Delgadillo and Michael N. Feuer, his opponent in the 2001 election, have agreed to pay fi...