WASHINGTON - Taking on an issue it has failed to decide twice before, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eric Sutcliffe, a retired name partner in San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, has died at his ...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William Danser was back in court Monday, but not on his old bench in Department 42...

SAN FRANCISCO - The public will have full access to a preliminary hearing in the case of the three off-duty San Francisco poli...

LOS ANGELES - Though the Sudanese government reached a September breakthrough in negotiations to end its 20-year civil war, Wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time, an 11-judge appellate panel split 6-5 Monday in ordering a new capital sentencing trial i...

LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit charging racial profiling by police from Los Angeles' notorious Rampart division went to trial Monday ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County established the nation's second drug court in 1991 in the Oakland-Piedmont-Emeryville Municipal...

SAN FRANCISCO - Liberal advocacy groups stepped up their opposition Monday to the nomination of conservative California Suprem...

SACRAMENTO - As Gov. Gray Davis prepares to leave office in November and Arnold Schwarzenegger gets ready to take over, some l...

Column By Garry Abrams - Liberal Democratic California Attorney General Bill Lockyer's revelation that he voted for Republican...

SAN FRANCISCO - It looks as if the Alameda County Superior Court is going to have to get into the drug-testing business. The s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dan Addario, District Attorney Terence Hallinan's chief investigator and long-time friend, has been accused by...

Forum Column - By Laura Fry - Where can parents lose their children without notice and with little opportunity to see the evid...

Despite a last-minute attempt by a Hollywood preservation organization, the destruction of the famed Hollywood Bowl orchestra ...

Loeb & Loeb has opened a Chicago office with the acquisition of four intellectual property partners from Chicago's Pattish...

A suit to protect Native American dance ceremonies is relying, in part, on a rarely applicable area of copyright law. The Tuol...

To better serve its East Coast clientele, Los Angeles' Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliot has opened its first out-of-state ...

John Brydon's firm tripled in size when veteran asbestos lawyer Ed Hugo joined it this summer. "The experience was driven by t...

Column - Expert Witnesses - By Noelle C. Nelson - Jurors are jaded. The deluge of media coverage of high-profile court cases h...

And cut! That's a take. Joel M. Grossman has wrapped up 14 years of running Sony Pictures Entertainment's litigation and labor...

Ten years ago, partners at San Francisco's Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass decided they wanted the 25-lawyer firm to grow. B...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - When Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in July 2002, the complicated new law likely sent mo...

The Scene fought through the throngs of people who were packed together waiting to enter the Women Lawyers Association of Los ...

Pornography remains among the most profitable enterprises on the Internet because it's one of the few services that Web surfer...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Delia Swan - Times have changed. The 1950s family model of a father working full time, and a...

LOS ANGELES - Right before Superior Court Judge Richard F. Walmark was elected to the bench last year, a defense lawyer came t...

Pillsbury Winthrop has entered into a seven-year lease for 21,000 square feet of space at the MGM Tower in Century City, which...

By Liz Valsamis Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has lured away an environmental and toxic tort partner from Santa Ana's H...

Forum Column - By William C. Kidder and Susan K. Serrano - In Grutter v. Bollinger, the landmark ruling upholding affir...