SAN FRANCISCO - The securities fraud trial of McKesson Corp. former Chief Financial Officer Richard Hawkins got under way Wed...

SAN FRANCISCO - An aspiring hair model will get an audience with the state's highest court to argue she's entitled to $15,000...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The powers that be in Los Angeles are all tangled up like a bundle of warring snakes in a scandal o...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday agreed to move Fleishman-Hillard's upcoming civil fraud trial to another county...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge has shot down a plan to try as test cases a few of the 550 sexual-abuse cases pending aga...

SAN FRANCISCO - A joint venture of two of the nation's largest chemical companies will plead guilty and pay an $84 million cri...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop and Shaw Pittman are in advanced merger talks that could make good on Pillsbury's 4-year-o...

INDUSTRIAL SAN JOSE - Propel Software signed a lease for a 41,901-square-foot, research-and-development property at 1010 Rinco...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan has joined Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, wher...

Letter to the Editor - Attorney William J. Becker Jr.'s screed against perceived bias by a liberal press, CBS and its story of...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - Last year, a significant amendment to the state anti-SLAPP law took effect, an...

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Barring a last-minute stay, by the time you read this, the state of California will have ...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - In the case of In re Lisa G. , 2005 DJDAR 311 (Cal. App. 4th Dist. Jan. 10, 2004), a thr...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland lawyer who trumpeted a court victory against a drug store chain in a press release Tuesday lost he...

LOS ANGELES - Days after the first federal indictment in the city's pay-to-play scandal, Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chi...

LOS ANGELES - Legal management consulting group Hildebrandt International was acquired Tuesday by information company Thomson ...

LOS ANGELES - Sheriff Leroy Baca said Tuesday that a judge or prosecutor should have intervened to order domestic-violence tre...

SANTA ANA - A Tustin-based company that markets vitamins and other supplements has agreed to pay $3.6 million in mostly civil...

SAN FRANCISCO - Is it a disaster when landslides, traveling a matter of feet over a period of decades, warp fences, bend stre...

SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous federal appellate panel Tuesday shot down a Board of Immigration Appeals Catch-22-style policy tha...

Gordon & Rees' San Diego office scooped up Carlsbad-based intellectual-property boutique Murphey & Murphey Jan. 3. The...

Many view college as a haven for students who want to challenge preconceived notions and traditional attitudes. But a suit rec...

Reaching the presidency of the American Board of Trial Advocates would be a signal honor for almost any litigator. For Donna M...

When New York partner C. Anthony Mulrain decided to pack up his entertainment law practice and move it closer to his West Coas...

Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS recently boosted its neutral ranks on both ends of the state, with the addition o...

INDUSTRIAL CITY OF INDUSTRY - Vistar Corp. signed a 10-year, $12.5 million lease for 184,206-square-foot industrial facility ...

A battle between the city of Stockton and groups representing 250 low-income residents who were displaced from unsafe housing ...

Archipelago Holdings Inc. is acquiring the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, which has been in operation since 1882. Th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even when they screw up, prosecutors enjoy absolute immunity from civil lawsuits. That's why legal observers ...

EXTRA Closer Column - By Harry J. Plotkin - Take note, savvy trial attorneys: Recent research suggests that the ingredients of...