Often, he pauses in the middle of a sentence. Then, he makes eye contact. As the approach repeats, it becomes oddly robotic. ...

Forum Column - By David M. Marquez - Don't be too proud of yourself when you throw paper in one of those blue plastic cans. Pa...

A late-night pizza order is delivered by a hungry, tired-looking driver. If that sounds familiar, here's a possible explanati...

LOS ANGELES - And the money goes to ... There isn't an award for best behind-the-scenes deal making, but while millions of mo...

A federal court has ruled that by conserving water for fish and environmental purposes, federal officials did not breach contr...

In one of the biggest patent verdicts ever, a federal jury in San Diego found that Microsoft Corp. had infringed Alcatel-Lucen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Nelson, a San Francisco partner at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, knows India. ...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Judson Morris retired Wednesday after sitting on the bench for 20 years.

Northern California firms seemed eager to expand to the east in the past year. San Francisco-based firm Cooley Godward added a...

In what plaintiffs' lawyers described as the largest settlement for military personnel injured during the Iraq war, a federal ...

LOS ANGELES - First, the paparazzi sued him for allegedly stealing photos. Now, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, the self-style...

Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - Recent developments in Jewish and Roman Catholic theology put constitutional debates in pers...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Some of the drama and expense of family law court can be mitigated if the Legislature woul...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County recorder failed to promptly record the mortgage releases of 400,000 properties in 2006, a...

LOS ANGELES - Renewable-energy has experienced a bit of a boom in the past two years as the present-day economic costs and the...

Focus Column - By Natasha Shabani - Here's a guide for setting up a contest or promotion without getting your client tagged fo...

A Los Angeles man shot and wounded by his brother can't grab money from the brother's trust fund despite winning a $1.28 milli...

WASHINGTON - Corporate giants Microsoft and AT&T squared off Wednesday in a closely watched patent-infringement fight at t...

SACRAMENTO - The way to this judge's heart is through his stomach. ...

SACRAMENTO - Prosecutors have charged a former San Francisco private investigator with faking witness statements to help the a...

The 57-lawyer litigation boutique Keker & Van Nest regularly pops up in high-profile, high-stakes proceedings - which mean...

It's always a tough battle going against the home team - especially one with a bench as deep as San Francisco-born Morrison &a...

Find out who in Northern California can truly be called the legal leaders. Stories in this supplement covering five practice a...

Editor's Note -This year we change course in the Top Northern California Law Firms supplement.

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe's global real estate group had a big year worldwide, and one of its biggest transactions inv...

Littler Mendelson continues to grow as one of the largest labor and employment boutiques - with 600 lawyers.

In 1987, Palestinian immigrant Aiad Barakat was arrested, along with seven others, for allegedly promoting Communism. Twenty y...

LOS ANGELES - In a potentially devastating blow to Los Angeles' efforts to increase housing and services for the homeless, fed...

Forum Column - If an Internet site posts ads that specify the types of roommates for which people are looking, is it discrimin...

Focus Column - Go ahead, bring up settlement. As a seasoned mediator explains, it's not going to make you look weak. ...