William Shernoff and Joel Cohen of Shernoff Bidart Darras Echeverria discuss punitive damage calculations. ...

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter was assigned all future proceedings of the long-festering Bratz litigation Tuesday, a litt...

In addition to a "not qualified" rating from the State Bar's judge-vetting group, Court of Appeal nominee Charles "Chuck" Pooc...

Jennifer Taggart of Demetriou, Del Guercio, Springer & Francis LLP says monitor social media to identify product liability...

Debtors and creditors battered by the collapse of the financial markets seek relief each week from U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sheri...

William Patton of Whittier Law School says minor's counsel is necessary for explosion of pro se representation.

The Daily journal compiled its first list of the leading lawyers in California in 1997. It quickly became a key indicator of w...

The Daily Journal publishes its 12th annual listing of the most influential legal leaders in the state.

As wildfires become increasingly destructive, leveling homes, causing mass evacuations and decimating hundreds of thousands of...

Retailers can't record your e-mail address when they run your credit card, a San Diego state appellate panel held Monday in le...

San Francisco-based Del Monte Foods Co. announced it will conduct a private offering of $450 million in 10-year notes, in a de...

Nigerian protesters who lost their civil rights lawsuit against Chevron Corp. in a federal jury trial here last December tried...

A state appellate court Monday vindicated a Morgan Hill attorney who took it upon himself to investigate rumors of a sex scand...

James Juo of Fulwider Patton LLP says works meeting the bare minimum of creativity may only be protected from virtually identi...

Two acquisitions last week are signs of a thaw in the Silicon Valley mergers and acquisitions market, which was dormant during...

Richard M. Gittleman and Hank A. Terhune of Akin Gump Struass Hauer & Feld LLP says apply early as tough competition is ex...

Striking another blow at a long-troubled prosecution, U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson ruled that supermarket mogul Georg...

Veteran San Diego trial lawyer David G. Ronquillo has been charged with five felony counts stemming from allegations that he s...

The children of late comic book artist Jack Kirby have moved to claim ownership of several Marvel Comics characters he helped ...

The U.S. Justice Department's decision to oppose Google Inc.'s creation of a digital library in its current form creates a maj...

The Los Angeles County Superior Court suspended Commissioner Lori-Ann C. Jones following an article in the Daily Journal about...

During her career as a solo practitioner, Gloria Trask handled sailors' divorces in Honolulu and personal injury cases in Haci...

Robert Darwell, Edwin Komen and Thomas Leo of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton address copyright chain of title.

Thelen filed a Chapter 7 petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, becoming the second San Francisco law firm to go bankrupt since De...

The state of California submitted a plan to reduce its prison population Friday, but the numbers it proposed are nowhere near ...

Patrick Coughlin, co-founder of Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP asks: Where is the SEC on current enforcement? ...

While the Legislature recently rejected the idea of expanding oil and gas drilling in state waters to boost state revenues, th...

Cynthia Kaiser for Rutan & Tucker LLP says take time to join organizations and social media networking Web sites; it pays ...

The son of a Ford River Rouge auto plant worker, Chris Reynolds now helps oversee Toyota's legal department. ...

Advising a Korean company looking to buy an American business with German subsidiaries made for plenty of sleepless nights for...