SANTA ANA - Nearly two years after the California Supreme Court overturned his conviction and death sentence in the murder of...

When is a Beach Boy not a Beach Boy? That was the riddle before U.S. District Judge Harry L. Hupp in Los Angeles on Monday. It...

DA's Child Support Hours to Change The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Bureau of Family Support has announced new offic...

Divorce Training Workshop Planned An "Uncontested Divorce" training workshop will be presented by the Los Angeles Free Clinic,...

THE ADVISER Dairy Queen is proof that class actions are still alive and well in the franchise context, despite decertificatio...

39/33-1 fg bold "I love the Internet!" That's what Oprah Winfrey said after her television show featured a segment on ImpactO...

LARGE FIRMS More and more law firms are hiring highly paid marketing professionals, as competition for new clients becomes fi...

FIRM WATCH Silicon Valley's Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian is raising first-year associate sala...

Elizabeth Jasper, a San Francisco-based legal marketing consultant, believes lawyers need a little art in their lives. Whethe...

Therese Mrozek's favorite play is Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," in which the two main characters wait under a tree fo...

DEALS Cisco Systems Inc., an Internet-technology provider , hired Brobeck Phleger to represent it in acquiring Cerent Corp., ...

Southwestern Names New CFO Beth Drake, a former audit manager with Deloitte & Touche, has been appointed chief financial o...

Proposals to limit anonymous communications on the Internet would violate free speech rights long recognized by the Supreme Co...

McPeters Becomes Presiding Judge SAN BERNARDINO - Roberta McPeters takes over as presiding judge of the San Bernardino County ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As many as 1,400 deportation appeals now pending in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may change because ...

SANTA ANA - When Terence Whitworth received $400,000 in commissions for selling more than $40 million in computer products fo...

DENVER - Michael McLachlan couldn't have planned a better way to leave his high-profile state government job. As the No. 3 man...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County's new public defender will be the first woman to hold the post and one of only two female publ...

WASHINGTON - In sharp contrast to recent years, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's 1999 Year-End Report on the Federal Judic...

A doctor is sued over his treatment of a permanently disabled child, in part because of what appears to be a critical and bela...

BOTTOM LINE Indemnification against intentional misconduct is governed under three statutes. By Richard S. Rosenberg and Sher...

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THE CLOSER Officials are taking only baby steps, not the needed giant steps, to implement high technology in courthouses. By ...

The Daily Journal's Employment Law Forum 2019 was a full-day, interactive conference designed to address the most significant ...

San Clemente - Standard Pacific Corp. of Costa Mesa and Catellus Residential Group of Irvine announced plans to jointly devel...

San Francisco - To the audible sighs of relief from local housing officials, the Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

There are probably days when brokers yearn for the good old days of the Pony Express or even Federal Express without the atte...

Redwood City - A San Francisco company agreed to pay $90 million for the Pacific Shores development site, the largest approve...

By Bill Rothe Who was the most important contributor to real estate over the past century NOT recognized by the Fisher Center...

By Jane Bowar Zastrow In San Francisco demand far exceeds supply. Ditto for the Peninsula. Hop over to the Oakland, Emeryvill...