Even though large law firms are paying associates skyrocketing sums, a recent survey has found that many of these lawyers woul...

Gov. Gray Davis has announced the appointment of six new judges - three appellate court justices and three for the San Diego C...

An epic battle between local and state government over property tax revenues appears headed for the California Supreme Court. ...

A local attorney, weary of what he sees as increasing acrimony in the practice of law, has turned his love of editorial cartoo...

OAKLAND - Disability Rights Advocates Corp. handed out its 4th Annual Eagle and Turkey Awards Tuesday, saluting corporations t...

Hillyer & Irwin, one of San Diego's oldest law firms, which has experienced a number of shareholder and associate departur...

SANTA ANA - A live-in nanny who once worked for former Anaheim Angels pitching ace Chuck Finley and his wife, Julie, has sued ...

On Monday, the public was able to watch a live, televised hearing in the Florida Supreme Court on the legal challenge to the m...

The task force's work has resulted in legislation that clarifies a judge's authority to utilize special discovery references. ...

In a legal market that's producing more corporate work than many firms say they can handle, Cooley Godward didn't forget the l...

San Francisco Judge Lenard Louie has declined to join a handful of judges around the country who have permitted hearings desig...

In the latest legal skirmish over Proposition 21, a San Francisco judge on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of the newly a...

He preyed on women he met at church, women whose faith or naivet led them to counsel the troubled man before he attacked them,...

Pig Man may not be bringing home the bacon for a while. Sean McKinney Diener, 20, a Layton, Utah, animal rights activist who w...

Private services will take place for R. Edward Brown, trial attorney and the first president of the San Fernando Valley Crimin...

Hollywood's nip-and-tuck specialist, Steven Hoefflin, has lost the latest legal battle to prevent further dissemination of all...

Last month, a new lawyer in one of Morrison & Foerster's 18 offices became No. 1,000 for the San Francisco-based law firm....

Raising the issue of where homeless people can sit or stand, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern Califor...

SAN JOSE - Semiconductor chip giant Intel Corp. has agreed to dismiss its lawsuit seeking to prevent three of its former emplo...

SANTA ANA - Following a closed-door meeting Tuesday, Orange County officials authorized a lawsuit to challenge Measure H, an i...

Old newspapers and fast-food wrappers blow through the street. Bums stumble about, muttering at their shoes. Gates are locked,...

The validity of San Francisco's hotel conversion law is now before the California Supreme Court in a case that tests the const...

A deeply divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the certification of a class action lawsuit against the I...

Avoiding the type of impasse that has dogged it in the past over the authority of the Los Angeles Police Department's inspecto...

According to a McCall's magazine survey, the No. 1 issue of concern to women in this presidential election was health care. Co...

The Coverage/Bad Faith Substantive Law Committee of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel will present a prog...

Six local bar associations will co-sponsor a training session Nov. 30 for a pro bono program that provides legal counseling an...

Left to their own devices, lawyers sometimes do some pretty mean things to each other. ...

The Daily Journal asks lawyers how they feel about the election ending up in the courts. ...

The West District Coordinated Drug Court Program will hold graduation ceremonies at 1:30 p.m., Nov. 30. The ceremonies will ta...