Andrew Jackson once thundered, "[Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it." Substitute Calif...

We have all seen Wild West saloon scraps in cowboy movies. An argument begins over a card game, and the feathers hit the fan w...

California plaintiffs' counsel, in complaints filed on behalf of their clients, often allege multiple theories of recovery tha...

Today, Los Angeles voters will pick their new mayor and city attorney, critical decisions that will shape the future and direc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sen. Dianne Feinstein recently dove headlong into California's seemingly intractable water debate with a legis...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to vastly increase the number of convicts required to provide DNA samples to the state cleared the Ass...

SANTA ANA - Closing arguments got under way Monday in the third trial of Li-Yun "Lisa" Peng, a Taiwanese national accused of m...

SACRAMENTO - The state Senate passed a bill Monday that would require financial institutions to get a customer's written conse...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley got high praise Monday from odd bedfellows - an outspoken criminal defense attorn...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a decision that could invalidate taxes adopted in 150 cities across the state in the early-to-mid 1990s, th...

By Leslie A. Gordon Special to DJC Bankruptcy With 200 hours of continued rolling blackouts expected this summer, and costs t...

LOS ANGELES - The life of a newspaper columnist isn't always a bed of roses. For instance, last week there was the puzzling, e...

SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty-two years ago, the California Supreme Court ruled that privately-owned shopping centers have become the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Police officers in San Francisco's narcotics division often visit criminal defendants and badmouth their attor...

WASHINGTON - Handing a major victory to sexual-harassment and other job-discrimination victims, the Supreme Court on Monday ru...

Among actions announced Monday by the justices were:

It remains to be seen whether 2000 will mark the end of the tech boom - along with rainmaker inflation. One thing we know for ...

Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich plans to let its venture capital and investment banking lawyers get out of the general busine...

Given the high stakes involved in most class actions, attorneys on both sides sometimes seek an advantage by initiating commun...

Minneapolis' Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly added another California voice to its firmwide policy committee. At the end of M...

Polycom Inc. will acquire PictureTel Corp. for $362 million in cash and stock. Milpitas-based Polycom manufactures and markets...

Credence Systems Corp. will acquire Integrated Measurement Systems Inc. for $170 million in stock. Fremont's Credence Systems ...

Company buyers thumbing through the Summer 2001 edition of the L.L. Bean corporate catalog will be greeted by six grinning Lat...

Palo Alto's Fenwick & West has been out in front of the tech-fueled privacy law explosion, most recently adding a resource...

Sascha Wollersheim, a law student in his late 20s, recently arrived to Los Angles from Germany by way of Dublin, Ireland, wher...

It should come as no surprise that the part of last year's economy that remained off the charts produced a similar number of r...

After five years as the "Meyer" in the Law Offices of Kenneth Meyer, Ken Meyer is shifting into big-firm practice in the Santa...

Britain's Cable & Wireless has agreed to buy Digital Island Inc. of San Francisco. The cash deal is worth $340 million. Ca...

Software-testing developer Mercury Interactive Corp. will buy Freshwater Software for $147 million in cash. Sunnyvale's Mercur...

United Parcel Service Inc. has bought the assets of Iship.com Inc., a subsidiary of Santa Monica's Stamps.com Inc. The amount ...