"That's it. I'm finished playing games. That's my last, best and final offer!" We've all heard people say this during a negoti...

The enforcement of law is essential to the maintenance of our society. Ensuring the security of our people and institutions is...

SAN FRANCISCO - On a fine point of law, the Los Angeles firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has avoided having to help pay $25,...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court voted unanimously Wednesday to decide whether a Catholic charitable group must offer...

LOS ANGELES - On the same day Gov. Gray Davis named a successor for the late Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk, he appointed ...

LOS ANGELES - Robert G. Taylor, name partner of former Los Angeles firm Tuttle & Taylor, has died. Taylor died Tuesday of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's more than a coincidence that seven litigation partners have left Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday named Carlos Moreno as his first appointee to the California Supreme Court, selec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last year, Chief Justice Ronald George was asked why his courtroom needs its own security checkpoint when ther...

Criminal defense attorneys may be willing to represent people accused of terrorism, as Daily Journal reporter Erin Carroll not...

SAN FRANCISCO - In spirited questioning of both sides, a slim majority of an 11-judge federal appeals panel appeared ready Wed...

SAN FRANCISCO - Forget a fond farewell for departing colleague Carlos Moreno from his fellow federal jurists at the 9th U.S. C...

SAN DIEGO - Authorities have denied full access to legal counsel for three San Diego college students held as material witness...

SAN DIEGO - James J. Stewart, a civil attorney who for many years was president of the West Hollywood Lions Club, has died. St...

SACRAMENTO - The Fair Political Practices Commission announced Tuesday it has promoted Mark Krausse, its government relations ...

LOS ANGELES - Vernon W. Hunt, a lawyer who earned accolades for defending the underdog while staying true to his ideals, has d...

I receive several requests a week from defendants who suddenly find themselves forced to defend their lives, their right to us...

Grieving relatives at a wake bidding farewell to a loved one hope their last image of the deceased is a good one. ...

John M. Seitman doesn't waste time. And that includes getting his law career started. When Seitman completed his law-school co...

LOS ANGELES - Little did Trynun Patterson know that lighting up a joint in a car would hasten his prosecution on murder charge...

Michael H. Diamond, chair of the litigation practice group at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; Dennis Codon, general couns...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Nawi was to be sentenced Tuesday for the 1987 slaying of Virginia Lowery, the wife of one of his drug- ...

The question raised by "unpublished" opinions being available online is whether making the opinions so accessible steps up the...

For decades, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16 has provided practitioners and judges with a framework in which to manage civi...

Although I live in New York and have lived there all my life, I was in California on the day planes destroyed the World Trade ...

Defense attorney L. Christian Spieller knows how to deal with dead bodies, a skill that served him well in a recent case. ...

LOS ANGELES - Although attorneys for Chapman University consider it a victory, lawyers for former students said Tuesday that t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Praising those who defend civil rights in a time of war, the chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...

LOS ANGELES - Ending a judicial game of Clue that left legal observers guessing who would replace Justice Stanley Mosk, who di...

WASHINGTON - Accepting a case from Oakland, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether the federal government's w...