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...

Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - At a settlement conference in State Bar Court, an attorney facing discipline charges wa...

Letter to the Editor - In the [Scott] Peterson verdict story ("Peterson Verdict Shows Defender's Limitations," Dec. 14), acade...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Stanford Law School graduate and former judicial clerk "gone bad" who embezzled more than $50 million from ...

EXTRA Feature - Another New Year, another batch of new laws taking effect. But this time, there's a twist. The state's 2003-04...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge, wading into a controversy that has split superior courts around the state, has ruled th...

LOS ANGELES - Struggling to absorb the enormous devastation of the Dec. 27 Indian Ocean tsunami, attorneys in Asian offices b...

SACRAMENTO - As state lawmakers reconvene today for the 2005 legislative session, part of their job will probably be to deal ...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer representing write-in candidate Donna Frye wants the City Council to decide who should be San Diego's ...

LOS ANGELES - Ahem. Uh, excuse me, Los Angeles City Council members? Could you put down your cell phones and pay attention? I...

SAN FRANCISCO - American Indians' struggle with alcohol abuse must be factored into their clashes with federal law, a divided...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Therascope was looking for more money to develop its products last year, the German biotechnology compan...

INDUSTRIAL BUENA PARK - Magic Messenger signed a six-year, $2 million lease for 73,147 square feet of industrial space locate...