SAN FRANCISCO - A little dog who was run over after being hurled into traffic on a rainy winter night in a notorious fit of ro...

LOS ANGELES - Leon Kaplan, a legal icon of Hollywood's Golden Age who helped transform the industry while mentoring many of to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carmen Chang, a corporate lawyer with valuable business ties in Asia, left Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosat...

SACRAMENTO - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued one of the nation's largest junk fax businesses Tuesday, seeking mo...

VENTURA - In December, Dr. Xavier Caro moved back into the luxurious hilltop mansion where his former wife murdered three of ...

Forum Column By Luke McLoughlin In a front-page Sunday New York Times magazine article June 3, 2001, titled "A Majority Of On...

OAKLAND - United Parcel Service Inc. will pay $10 million to settle a disabilities-rights class action brought by deaf employ...

Forum Column By Barbara Perry Water of suitable quality is a basic human right, which imposes a legal duty on states to guara...

Focus Column International Law By Robert Matz To serve foreign clients effectively in litigation and arbitration, the interna...

LOS ANGELES - The lawyer for Andrew Luster asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to order an appellate court to reconsider ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fresno civil litigator Adolfo M. Corona was appointed to the Fresno Superior Court on Monday by Gov. Gray Dav...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jade Santoro, a key witness in the case against three off-duty police officers charged with assault in the Fa...

Reporter's Notebook By Tyler Cunningham SAN FRANCISCO - Elections in San Francisco are always adventures, but November's prom...

SAN FRANCISCO - Drug users are eligible for treatment instead of jail time under Proposition 36 only if they were sentenced a...

LOS ANGELES - A San Diego man who accused the state, local police, the California Judicial Council, Ralphs Grocery and a Supe...

Column By Garry Abrams "It was just unbelievable to me that a paper of the New York Times' stature would run a story like thi...

OAKLAND - United Parcel Service Inc. will pay $10 million to settle a disabilities-rights class action brought by deaf employ...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda A popular Spanish radio personality is partly responsible for compensating the victims of sexual assaults ...

By Liz Valsamis After a decade at a Beverly Hills firm, Jody Simon is joining a firm with a national presence. Simon joined C...

In Closing Column Corporate Law By Dana Welch and Chad Perry On Aug. 5, the Securities and Exchange Commission "up-the-ladder...

By Joan Osterwalder A jury left a Santa Clarita family high and dry in its lawsuit that accused a homeowners' association of ...

By Joan Osterwalder To most people, it's a drink or a shower, but to water companies, it's liquid gold - and they want more v...

By Toni Vranjes Two companies that make products for biotechnology research are uniting. Life sciences company Invitrogen Cor...

When someone has a rap as exquisite as Rich Chacon's, it's best to step out of the way and listen. "I got one of my guys out ...

BY STEFANIE KNAPP Special to CREJ Sony Pictures Entertainment should be thankful that its recent films, such as "Charlie's An...

By Liz Valsamis Seattle's Davis Wright Tremaine has hired two entertainment lawyers in its Los Angeles office. Jill R. Cohen,...

BY GIDEON KRACOV Redevelopment of contaminated properties raises the threat of environmental liability. Such properties are "...

By Toni Vranjes Microsoft Corp. shocked the business world earlier this month when it announced plans to stop issuing stock o...

By Erik Cummins For years, Nancy Geenen wanted to get more involved in law-firm management. That's why Geenen took two years ...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor The ability to swim when thrown into the deep end is not just a sign of success in...