WASHINGTON - When Lucas Guttentag was facing back-to-back hourlong arguments in the Supreme Court last April, he turned to the...

LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Appointments announced Monday the confirmation of three justices to the 2nd District ...

LOS ANGELES - A Rolling Hills woman will fill a vacancy on the 2001-02. Los Angeles County civil grand jury. The juror, Carole...

OAKLAND - Rather than proceed with a trial that posed risks for both sides, Tosco Corp. and two former employees have reached ...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo unveiled his plan Monday to reorganize his office using a corporate model that en...

SAN RAFAEL - Superior Court Judge Jim Ritchie recently contemplated the fate of a criminal defendant he had just sentenced to ...

WASHINGTON - Terrorism experts differ on the effectiveness of the military campaign against Afghanistan, but agree that tactic...

The war on terrorism has generated so much to worry about that I decided to create the Terrorism Anxiety Checklist. Without su...

SANTA BARBARA - In a case that has divided two neighboring counties, Santa Barbara prosecutors Monday dismissed a murder charg...

LOS ANGELES - Edgar Hightower, a Daily Journal employee for more than half a century, has died. Hightower died in his sleep at...

San Jose's KLA Tencor Corp. has agreed to acquire QC Optics Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., in a transaction valued at $3 million. ...

When Santa Fe Springs-based Omni Plastics Inc. asked Jack Goldman to represent it in an upcoming transaction, the attorney ins...

On Oct. 11, President Bush said, "Ours is a war against terrorism ... [and] ... our focus is on Afghanistan ... right now." Hi...

Many lawyers found a great way to relax in the hills of Brentwood on Sunday, Oct. 14. Neville Johnson of the Westwood firm of ...

Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch is bulking up its intellectual property practice, adding attorney Troy Schmelzer to its...

One California-based law firm graced a list of companies that are helping women balance work and family life. Working Mother m...

The vital, day-to-day work done by the attorneys and staff at Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center in Los Angeles isn't all th...

It is not a semantic quibble to distinguish between criminal acts and acts of war when the toll in blood and treasure reaches ...

Palo Alto's PayPal Inc. announced the filing of a registration statement for the initial public offering of its common stock. ...

When did aggressively representing your client translate into a contest to see who could be the bigger jerk? Instead of all th...

Santa Barbara based-Agility Communications Inc. received $83 million in a series C round of financing. New York's Goldman Sach...

In 1982, while searching for a research paper topic, University of Texas graduate student Gregory Watson discovered that in ad...

President Bush has nominated Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton attorney Matthew Fong chair of the advisory panel of a fede...

Meanwhile, outside the studio gates, entertainment lawyers are dealing with the above-mentioned security precautions. Jill Coh...

He is the highest-ranking legal officer of one of the major studios. For years, he has been an integral part of an operation t...

Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott has nabbed longtime litigator Carol Rene Brophy from the San Francisco office of Foley &am...

San Jose's Hynix Semiconductor America Inc., subsidiary of South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc., has raised $115 million in ...

Sometimes, getting out of the office is nice. In good economic times or bad, arranging for outside meeting space can make the ...

New York's DoubleClick Inc. agreed to acquire the technology assets of Marina del Rey-based L90 Inc. Neither company would dis...