LOS ANGELES - Alireza Ghazi Zahedi had big hopes when he arrived in the United States a year and a half ago from Iran as a del...

In Closing Column - By Richard S. Levick - When Robin Hood and his Merry Men launched their first act of justice against the P...

In yet another merger in the fast-consolidating biotechnology industry, Utah biotech company NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agre...

Employment and labor law boutique Littler Mendelson has closed its immigration law practice, spinning it off into a separate b...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer The smart play for an owner of an outdated, underperforming shopping center with a g...

Palo Alto's Cooley Godward has lost three business partners in as many weeks. ...

John Sargeant's wrongful-termination suit backfired. The 73-year-old insurance broker sued Costanza Insurance Agency Inc. afte...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer As retail and housing development continues to crop up throughout several desert communitie...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's liquidation committee has hired Henry Kevane and Kenneth Brown to advise th...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - Can the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sue a defendant for the s...

SANTA CRUZ - Like many immigrants to Santa Cruz, Superior Court Judge Michael E. Barton was lured by the promise of sun, surf ...

OAKLAND - Less than a week after the Oakland Police Department announced it would pay $10.9 million to settle claims of widesp...

By Toni Vranjes The bankruptcy case of Egghead.com, the online retailer with the scrambled finances, is getting closer to a f...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - George W. Bush's war machine has propelled inexorably toward war with Iraq. The rest of the ...

LOS ANGELES - As Robert Blake's preliminary hearing on murder charges heads into its final week, people in and out of the case...

SAN FRANCISCO - Elysa Yanowitz knew better than to fire one of her cosmetics sales clerks for not looking sexy enough. But she...

When the stock market tanked three years ago, a lot of investors lost their shirts. ...

Jonathan Joseph and Forrest Hainline III could have passed each other in Pillsbury Winthrop's San Francisco lobby, as Joseph e...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco Public Defender Kimiko Burton is scheduled to start her new job at the city attorney's o...

Pasadena-based Overture Services Inc. has inked a pair of deals to broaden its Internet search capabilities. On Feb. 25, Overt...

Irell & Manella without Morgan Chu at the top? It just doesn't seem right. The famed litigator has been the firm's co-mana...

I got another speeding ticket. Damn! - on the Pacific Coast Highway about eight miles north of where I got my previous speedin...

Employment Column - By Deanna M. Wilkinson - The good news for job-seekers is that now is the best time of year to begin or re...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has resolved the bitter feud between San Francisco mayoral candidate Angela Alioto and Ethics Commiss...

SAN FRANCISCO -Two Pelican Bay State Prison guards must begin serving their own prison terms soon for conspiring to solicit t...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court is facing deep cuts in its operating budget, which could result in reduced court hou...

WASHINGTON - In an apparently unprecedented move, California officials have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss - three weeks b...

Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - What state of mind must a man have when death calls his name? This may sound like a phi...

LOS ANGELES - With further state budget cuts expected, the Los Angeles Superior Court is considering closing the Monrovia and...

The increasing resemblance of arbitration to litigation suggests that lawyers who have mastered courtroom skills can apply the...