SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't a return of the dot-com boom, but most Bay Area law firms reported impressive financial results in ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court Monday released details of the record $100-million settlement between the Diocese...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Steven A. Ellis, Robert A. Holland and David R. Carpenter - On Nov. 2, 2004, California voters ...

Forum Column - By David Kadue and Emanuel Shirazi - Conventional wisdom assumes that employees injured by Labor Code violation...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Monday gave the Los Angeles County sheriff a month to negotiate with an outspoken lay chaplain b...

SAN JOSE - Veteran Santa Clara County prosecutor David Howe was promoted Monday to assistant district attorney in a management...

LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for William A. Reppy, a retired 2nd District Court of Appeal justice. Reppy, who also serve...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly a year after his unprecedented rise to the state's top office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger picked a spot...

SACRAMENTO - Two Sacramento lawyer-lawmakers have been mentioned as top contenders for the open congressional seat created by ...

SANTA ANA - Jury selection began in Orange County Superior Court on Monday in a rare case of alleged reverse discrimination th...

Column By Garry Abrams - Just in time to help with New Year's resolutions, as well as strike a blow for states' rights, the 9t...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Commissioner Deborah Ryan does not stay long in one place. The child of an Air Force officer, Ry...

SAN JOSE - Advocates of opening dependency court proceedings, stymied in the state Legislature, are trying a new tactic in San...

SAN FRANCISCO - A paralytic drug to be injected into condemned California inmate Donald J. Beardslee during his execution Jan....

SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Benton, a co-founder and former managing partner of Coudert Brothers' Palo Alto office, has left to join ...

Warner Music has announced it is selling its sheet music and educational materials division to a family-owned music book publi...

INSTITUTIONAL SAN FRANCISCO - Shaw Road Properties LLC purchased a 38,458-square-foot warehouse building located at 358 Shaw ...

The Elvis Presley estate is getting all shook up, thanks in part to a group of Los Angeles lawyers. Entertainment impresario R...

The 12 days before Christmas proved particularly hectic for Bart Greenberg. The corporate transactions partner moved from Pres...

Brisbane's Monster Cable Products Inc., which won the naming rights to San Francisco's former 3Com Park in September, came und...

Although a Lodi policeman and a San Joaquin County social worker did not have good reasons for temporarily removing two childr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four thousand same-sex couples found themselves abruptly unhitched in August when San Francisco Mayor Gavin N...

Column - By Stanley I. Foodman - Because of the accelerating expansion of litigation in every imaginable area of our society, ...

In one of the largest software mergers in Silicon Valley history, computer security giant Symantec Corp. has agreed to pay $10...

One of southeast Orange County's natural treasures, Rancho Mission Viejo, may now be valued for reasons beyond its 23,000 acre...

RIVERSIDE - When he goes to court, Brian C. Unitt shows up early. Guided by an associate, Unitt "feels" his way around, makin...

Litigator Stephen Glassman often goes to war with his adversaries in the courtroom, but some of the people for whom he volunte...

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved in 2000 the use of RU-486, known as the "abortion pill," abortion-rights a...

LOS ANGELES - The Southeast Asian tsunami could go from being the world's biggest natural disaster to the world's biggest cla...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Thomas F. Newmeyer - and Carol Sherman Zaist Many attorneys face the dilemma of preserving test...