On its Web site, Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa in Kelseyville, a hundred miles north of Sacramento, is billed as "120 pine-stu...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court has stepped into an 11-year battle between the city of San Francisco and a local hotel...

INDUSTRIAL LAKE FOREST - William and Darlene Clark purchased a 10,268-square-foot industrial building at 26902 Vista Terrace ...

Closer Column - By A. Barry Cappello and Troy A. Thielemann - Economic cycles always bring changes to law firms and their area...

When the University of San Diego decided this fall to change its outside general counsel, one thing stayed the same: the prese...

Waving the legal equivalent of a red flag at FX Networks, TV writer Joshua King filed a lawsuit against the cable giant, alleg...

SAN DIEGO - Most weekdays, first-year law student Kathryn Ostapuk gets home from school in the early afternoon and studies fou...

When the $47 billion FleetBoston Financial Corp. merger sent his job east, Bank of America Corp. associate general counsel Ran...

School districts that require parental consent or notification for a minor to leave campus to obtain "confidential" medical se...

In a way, the marriage of Piper Rudnick Gray Cary and DLA was almost inevitable. After all, the firms' histories and business ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel, in a rare about-face, has changed its mind and decided that when a creditor violat...

On a five-year track to expand its numbers in Sacramento, the Portland-based law firm Stoel Rives added of-counsel Barbara Bre...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton in San Diego bolstered its labor and employment practice with the Dec. 1 hire of W. Da...

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights launched a courtroom crusade against the state government last month, charging...

SAN FRANCISCO - As a child in segregated Maryland, Jim Finberg watched his mother help black citizens register to vote and hi...

The answer to the recent surge in fossil fuel prices could be blowing in the wind, according to members of the growing, five-l...

Forum Column - By Robert J. Grey Jr. - According to the National Center for State Courts, each year 5 million Americans receiv...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert C. Laurenson and Don F. Livornese - An important debate is under way at the U...

Forum Column - By Dana Cephas - The Michael Jackson molestation trial is scheduled to begin in state court early next year, bu...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for Norman Karlin, a longtime professor at Southwestern University School of Law, will be Jan...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether foreign nationals on death rows in this country can challe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A hospital worker who claimed her job was too stressful had no right to take an unpaid medical leave while sh...

SACRAMENTO - The California Judicial Council plans to pursue legislation to adopt a uniform civil fees schedule and to ask vo...

EXTRA Feature - When EXTRA asked Los Angeles attorney Kelli Sager what she'd like to receive this holiday season, she was quic...

WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who is recovering at home from thyroid cancer, is planning to swear in Presi...

LOS ANGELES - In a major setback for cigarette makers, a state appellate court ruled Friday that most disputes lingering from ...

LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs and defendants increasingly are flocking to private judges and attorneys who hold out the promise of ...

LAND VISALIA - El Progresso Restaurant purchased 72,309 square feet of land from the Family Health Care Network. Terms of the...

LOS ANGELES - It's Christmastime. Five mobsters sit around a table playing cards, laughing and jawing in exaggerated Bronx acc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists and fishing organizations are threatening a Clean Water Act lawsuit that could impose major...