In its first-ever acquisition, Stedim S.A., a designer and manufacturer of single-use, sterile-plastic-bag systems, purchased ...

"Jane Doe" thought she did everything right before she bought her first house. She scrimped and saved, paid off most of her cr...

During summer and autumn in the San Joaquin Valley, nut harvesting causes dust clouds to rise. The health risks are usually li...

Bob Evans Farms Inc. has acquired SWH Corp., which owns the Mimi's Caf restaurant chain, for $182 million. Bob Evans offered t...

On Aug. 3, the head of the criminal division at the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., will follow two former high-ra...

Charitable legal organization Bet Tzedek's annual Justice Ball has made Hollywood's to-do list, evidenced July 10 by something...

Partner Barry Katzman has left the Palo Alto office of Pillsbury Winthrop for San Jose's Hopkins & Carley. Katzman, 49, jo...

Forum Column - By Gerald F. Uelman - In a shallow act of political expediency, on July 19, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed S...

Forum Column - By Jonathan A. Loeb and Hartwell V. Harris - Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court in Blakely v. Washington...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - On Wednesday, the Bush administration announced that it is planning to extend the mobiliza...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Alex Ricciardulli - To err is human; to forgive, divine. To fail repeatedly on probation, only ...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed his first two judges to the bench, and one of them is a public defender....

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Erik Cummins - You can't tell the story of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in California without ...

LOS ANGELES - Jerrell Patrick, who was at the heart of a judicial election controversy over the release of 31 suspected felons...

SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley darling Google Inc., famous for its anti-corporate mantra "do no evil," is being accused by a f...

SAN FRANCISCO - A generic excuse from a doctor isn't enough to stall an embattled Yuba County judge's date with his disciplina...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop has lost another longtime partner, Paul Griffin, a 26-year veteran of the San Francisco fir...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has revived the sexual harassment claims of a Presbyterian minister, saying that the F...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dealing what could be a major blow to some of the first sexual abuse claims litigated against the Catholic Chu...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - Sometimes justice comes in unexpected ways. Take the case of Delbert Meeks, an AIDS-stricken and ...

LOS ANGELES - Some might think it unusual for an attorney who lives full time and works part time in Orange County to become t...

Focus Column - Regulatory Law - By Robert Loewy - At least partially fulfilling his campaign promise to have California Indian...

Forum Column - By Joseph W. Cotchett and Robert Gnaizda - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent punitive damages-public benefit ...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser retired from the bench in a deal announced Thursday to settl...

SAN FRANCISCO - A deputy attorney general is entitled to an extra seven years of back pay because that's how long it took the ...

LOS ANGELES - Metropolitan News-Enterprise publisher Roger M. Grace considers himself the victor even though a state appellate...

LOS ANGELES - A Torrance judge let stand a $1.25 million judgment against Milton Grimes for failing to litigate a wrongful-dea...

SANTA ANA - Legal ethics experts say a bill that would make it illegal for former jurors to work as consultants on retrial is ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris will be honored Saturday at the Urban League's Women of Power Aw...

LOS ANGELES - Shirley Boucher has spent the last week in Department 107 of the criminal courts building, watching Jerrell Patr...