Dean Victor J. Gold says, after more than seven years at Loyola's helm, it's time for new energy leading the school. He will r...

Plaintiffs' lawyers on Tuesday appear to have rescued their federal antitrust class action against Apple Inc., which they accu...

Christopher D. Jaime, a shareholder at Maupin, Cox & LeGoy PC in Reno, Nev. , will fill the seat vacated by the retirement...

Several senior prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in the Northern District are leaving or changing jobs in the coming m...

The film and TV production company has cast the former senior vice president of business and legal at Focus Features in a simi...

Chief Financial Officer Peggy Van Horn was placed on paid administrative leave late last week, according to State Bar Presiden...

There appears to be an effort to respond to Vergara, at least in part, with the state Legislature's recent enactment of...

The law schools at Santa Clara University and Stanford University are offering classes for the spring semester that invite stu...

In a talk with reporters Tuesday, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye suggested the judiciary's aggressive funding plan in Janu...

James L. Crandall gives minor criminal defendants second - and third and fourth - chances.

Chief Legal Officer Frontier Communities Rancho Cucamonga ...

Chief Judge Sidney R.Thomas keeps a low profile, but the President Bill Clinton appointee is a liberal centrist now at the for...

Causation is a legal concept that seems straightforward and simple. But, as I remember from law school, when you dig deeper yo...

During the course of arrests, police officers sometimes damage private property. A question courts often face is whether offic...

On Nov. 25, the U.S. Supreme Court granted petitions for certiorari brought by 21 states, an electric utility industry group a...

Lawyers work from home after the fire guts an adjacent development under construction. ...

California lawyers cannot take their successful bar exam results and use them to practice law in Arizona, the 9th U.S. Circuit...

On December 3, the Daily Journal hosted an open house for judges and attorneys. Guests enjoyed hors d'oeuvres and socialized w...

Latham & Watkins and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher advised Hudson Pacific Properties as the REIT purchased Bay Area office p...

A state court of appeal upheld the dismissal of a class action alleging a San Diego healthcare provider unfairly charged the u...

The Bar Association of San Francisco named Yolanda Jackson as its executive director and general counsel, after she served in ...

Subject to a handful of exceptions, federal appeals must follow a final judgment. Interlocutory orders generally are reviewabl...

Dozens of personal injury lawsuits involving allegations of specific crashes that were caused, at least in part, by malfunctio...

A Superior Court Judge denied the satellite broadcaster's motion to reconsider jury instructions, but agreed that the issue of...

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

A program that allows cities to finance environmentally-friendly home improvements through bonds is taking off in California a...

I read with great interest Edward Loya Jr.'s Dec. 2 column "An occasion to discuss prosecutorial discretion." By Bernard J. Ro...

Cybersecurity risks are a growing issue for the financial sector - and regulators have taken notice. By Kevin F. Cahill and D...

With health care costs rising every day, public and private employers seek ways to limit health care for retirees, and retiree...

The fierce business competition between computer networking market leader Cisco Systems Inc. and Arista Networks Inc. took a l...