SAN FRANCISCO - The household box cutter - the retractable razor used by the Sept. 11 hijackers - is not classified as a weapo...

LOS ANGELES - The Federal Election Commission reportedly is probing Los Angeles lawyer Pierce H. O'Donnell's fund raising for ...

LOS ANGELES - With minimal complaints and only three no votes, the State Bar Board of Governors adopted Saturday what may be t...

LOS ANGELES - In a setback for Bank of America Corp., a federal judge in Los Angeles has sent a legal challenge to the institu...

RIVERSIDE - A lawyer for the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians said Monday that he plans to appeal a Riverside Superior Court j...

Column By Garry Abrams - A good night's sleep may be priceless, but consumers can still pay too much for a bed. That's one of ...

SALINAS - After handling high-profile land-use and water matters as Monterey's county counsel, Superior Court Judge Adrienne G...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing victims allegedly molested by Northern California priests say the Catholic Church's polic...

SAN FRANCISCO - Unanimously reversing a 1987 death sentence Monday, the California Supreme Court criticized a defense lawyer f...

LOS ANGELES - Although alarmed by what they see as a direct assault on a fundamental right of a free press, media lawyers anti...

Lawyers have elevated arguing about the meaning of words to a fine art. But for those who want to cut to the core of a legal t...

Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe was so bullish on Chinese deal making that it hired 25 corporate lawyers from Hong Kong'...

American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney Martha Matthews left her post earlier this month to take over as director of USC...

Human resources outsourcing and consulting firm Hewitt Associates Inc. has agreed to merge with Irvine-based Exult Inc. for $6...

SAN FRANCISCO - If the federal government requires judges to report to the U.S. Sentencing Commission whenever one of their pr...

SB899, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's answer to boosting the economy, aims to cut workers' compensation insurance costs for the ...

The Oregon Public Employees Retirement System Board recently won the dismissal of a U.S. District Court case that challenged l...

Todd Rumberger, managing partner of Greenberg Traurig's East Palo Alto office, sees new partner Wayne Jones as the key piece o...

Column - Adviser - By Joel M. Grossman - While every mediation has its own twists and turns, entertainment disputes present th...

In its first-ever acquisition, Stedim S.A., a designer and manufacturer of single-use, sterile-plastic-bag systems, purchased ...

"Jane Doe" thought she did everything right before she bought her first house. She scrimped and saved, paid off most of her cr...

During summer and autumn in the San Joaquin Valley, nut harvesting causes dust clouds to rise. The health risks are usually li...

Bob Evans Farms Inc. has acquired SWH Corp., which owns the Mimi's Caf restaurant chain, for $182 million. Bob Evans offered t...

On Aug. 3, the head of the criminal division at the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., will follow two former high-ra...

Charitable legal organization Bet Tzedek's annual Justice Ball has made Hollywood's to-do list, evidenced July 10 by something...

Partner Barry Katzman has left the Palo Alto office of Pillsbury Winthrop for San Jose's Hopkins & Carley. Katzman, 49, jo...

Forum Column - By Gerald F. Uelman - In a shallow act of political expediency, on July 19, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed S...

Forum Column - By Jonathan A. Loeb and Hartwell V. Harris - Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court in Blakely v. Washington...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - On Wednesday, the Bush administration announced that it is planning to extend the mobiliza...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Alex Ricciardulli - To err is human; to forgive, divine. To fail repeatedly on probation, only ...