By Marc J. Poster. Appellate courts sometimes have more friends than they know what to do with. Thirty-seven amicus curiae (fr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A high-profile 1996 murder case in which a judge disqualified the entire San Francisco district attorney's off...

By Ray Haynes. A good test of a political movement on the wane is the lengths its supporters will go to defend it. When the mo...

After 20 years with San Francisco's Lillick & Charles, senior real estate attorney Lee F. Gotshall-Maxon has defected to t...

By Darren O'Leary Aitken. The hearsay objection is a pet peeve of mine. I am not talking hearsay objections made at trial. On ...

The Daily Journal asks lawyers how they feel about full-time casual dress.

A Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges Monday for helping a U.S. Customs agent and...

SANTA ANA - Computer giant Ingram Micro Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a dozen of its employees, claiming the workers violat...

SANTA ANA - While on the job, a former Orange County prosecutor continued his relationship with a known drug dealer even after...

By Radhika Rao. In Stenberg v. Carhart, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to strike down a Nebraska statute making performance of a ...

SANTA BARBARA - A jury has found a local property owner liable for setting one of Santa Barbara's worst wildfires as an act of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Under legislative command to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of its attorney discipline system, the S...

It may not be nice to imply that someone is the bastard child of a murderous worm with a hankering for sex with dead pigs, but...

San Francisco's Schachter Kristoff Orenstein & Berkowitz, a 16-attorney labor and employment law boutique founded in 1982,...

Despite the fact that defense counsel was excluded from a key trial hearing, the California Supreme Court upheld the death sen...

By John M. Genga. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has recently held that the Copyright Act does not pre-empt state commu...

O'Melveny & Myers managing partner Douglas Kranwinkle surprised both his current and future employers with the career move...

Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli & Maser recently recruited Alisha K. Hiner as an associate to its corporate practice...

By Edwin B. Stegman. Department of Motor Vehicles' driving-under-the-influence license-suspension hearings are a travesty of j...

The University of California, Boalt Hall, on Friday released its statistics for the fall 2000 first-year class.

By John C. Eastman. Our nation's founders feared that the consolidation of power in a central government would be dangerous to...

Oganes Saakyan got a big birthday present this year from a Norwalk jury: $21 million. But it was long overdue. On Aug. 17, the...

SAN DIEGO -- David James Genzler walked from the courtroom Friday guilty of involuntary manslaughter but free and likely to re...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge has dismissed "peeping tom" charges against a man - even though he was caught allegedly vid...

An injunction has been entered against former Los Angeles Kings owner Jeffrey P. Sudikoff and two other men accused of lying i...

Services took place Friday for attorney Steven H. Spindel, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm Goldschmid, Silver & Spin...

The mother of a man shot by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies after an early morning car chase last year claims in a wrong...

A protester's warning that a judge would be shot had officials on edge at the Marin County Civic Center on May 16 as Lynn Dury...

On the lawn at Loyola Law School with a late afternoon summer breeze cooling alumni, staff, students and the legal community e...

It's a treat to watch two formidable defense firms display their skills in a high-stakes court battle. Case in point: Munger, ...