During the early part of World War II, Winston Churchill said something about the United States that stuck with President Clin...

While other third-year law students are molding legal specialties and jockeying for summer-associate positions with large law ...

In a move to beef up its expertise in international trade, intellectual property and banking regulation, Bryan Cave lured nine...

As a prosecutor, Pamela Wechsler had built quite a resume. First, she spent 10 years in the Boston district attorney's office,...

It's not often you find a lawyer with a doctorate in biophysical chemistry, says Fred Herold, hiring partner for Dechert's Pal...

After spending 20 years at Cooley Godward, commercial trial attorney Benjamin Riley has defected to Howrey Simon Arnold & ...

Bankruptcy lawyers are closely following what many consider a chilling reform bill that could hold them liable for mistakes in...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Henry C. Su - U.S. antitrust laws forbid a seller from requiring a buyer who wants t...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - For those of you who read last month about covenant marriage ("No Wedding Bells: Covenant ...

Forum Column - By Judy Appel - Last week a California judge issued a ruling that offers hope to our children for a future free...

SANTA ANA - Two-and-a-half years after the nude body of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion was discovered in mountains 50 miles from ...

There you sit, staring at the cards, wondering which to hold and playing the odds. One bad move and you bust. But how do you d...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego congresswoman is trying to open the door to the U.S. Supreme Court for a man who has long insisted tha...

SAN FRANCISCO - For an ex-prosecutor to confess that he cheated to win a death sentence is virtually unheard of in the annals ...

SAN JOSE - The attorney representing a Fremont company has asked a Santa Clara County jury for more than $1 billion in damages...

SAN FRANCISCO - According to their lawyers, the only reason Tickets.com executives signed a disputed 2001 fee arrangement with...

INDUSTRIAL COMMERCE - CBB Group Inc. purchased an industrial building at 2747 Malt Ave. from Nishimoto Trading Co. for $7.5 m...

Forum Column - By Guy Houston and Diann Rogers - Restaurants should not be held liable simply because people gain weight over ...

Forum Column - By Sanford Jossen - No one seems to like lawyers. There are more lawyers than ever and it seems that they are u...

Employment Column - By Mark E. Terman - While conducting a computerized legal database search, your firm stumbles upon three u...

SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Aviles, a retired pioneering consumer fraud prosecutor with the San Francisco district attorney's office...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has ordered a hearing into whether a famous female impersonator committed miscond...

SAN JOSE - Last weekend, former Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William Danser shared a beer with his father upon his release...

LOS ANGELES - Immigration officials have freed four Iranian brothers, jailed three years for allegedly supporting terrorists, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A rejected candidate for U.S. attorney in Los Angeles has lost another round in his legal crusade to force sel...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo spent $1.27 million in a virtually unopposed re-election victory just...

LOS ANGELES - Masimo Corp.'s antitrust case against rival medical-equipment maker Tyco Healthcare Group was expected to reach ...

LOS ANGELES - The lone picketer outside the Great Western Forum was undaunted. Not even free tickets to the Lakers game could ...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Edwards brought his populist message to several hundred sympathetic San Francisco lawyers Thursday, decl...

LOS ANGELES - The case had long been known in the district attorney's office as "Cooley's O.J.," prosecutors said Thursday. An...