LOS ANGELES - In 1974, James D. Otto got his first assignment as an associate at the Los Angeles litigation firm of Cummins, W...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the biggest surprises for new San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris was to learn her 42 investi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group of Florida lawyers failed Tuesday to piggyback on the fee request of California attorneys who settled ...

MODESTO - Stanislaus County residents who hear the name Whiteside usually equate it first with Carol Whiteside, who worked for...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors will no longer try to use information that accused double agent Katrina Leung provided in vo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The two members of the California Public Utilities Commission who opposed an agreement crucial to the bankrupt...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jason Wacha is one of the country's pre-eminent experts on open source software licensing, but the 41-year-old...

Column By Garry Abrams - The seventh anniversary of the unsolved murder of rap mogul Notorious B.I.G. passed without much noti...

Forum Column - By Griffin B. Bell and Alan K. Simpson - Legal reform is bogged down in the clear perception that what's at sta...

Forum Column - By Carrie Nixon and James Copland - "So, when do you expect the class action bill to come up in the Senate agai...

Forum Column - By Jennifer Van Bergen - What is today's news? Haiti? Guantnamo? Iraq? Bin Laden? The primaries? Martha Stewart...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - In its recent decision in Cox v. Roskelley, 2004 DJDAR 2227 (9th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stephen Cowan, a former managing partner of O'Melveny & Myers' San Francisco office and a renowned real es...

LOS ANGELES - In a downtown Los Angeles courtroom last week, a 28-year-old 18th Street gang member was sentenced to a life pri...

SACRAMENTO - In an unusual move Monday, the Fair Political Practices Commission rejected a $16,000 fine recommended by an admi...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser's co-defendant pleaded no contest Monday to felony conspira...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental rules and regulations have been on the books in the People's Republic of China for more than 20 ...

LOS ANGELES - Major League Baseball teams and Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig shared a victory Monday when U.S. District Judge...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel Monday had harsh words and big sanctions for San Francisco lawyer Arlo Hale Smith, w...

LOS ANGELES - The young man stood shackled before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John Vernon Meigs, struggling to explain wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - The four-year investigation of alleged corruption involving former Ukraine Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko come...

New York's Shearman & Sterling opened its San Francisco office in 1979, making it one of the first nonindigenous firms to ...

The post-production house for actor Mel Gibson's hit film, "The Passion of the Christ," has come into a world of legal trouble...

Miami-based Greenberg Traurig expanded its reach in the state in February, opening offices in Orange County and the Silicon Va...

In the television series "Black Scorpion," billed as "Batman" meets "Baywatch," Michelle Lintel played the main character, "a ...

As any aspiring star or starlet will tell you, it isn't easy breaking into Hollywood. But one firm, Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman,...

Morrison & Foerster's Irvine office is without a project finance and development group after its only two members left to ...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Karen Kaplowitz - Give up random acts of charity. Stop buying tables at charity events that ...

Electronic design automation company Synopsys Inc. has agreed to buy Monolithic System Technology Inc. for $432 million in cas...

Steve Daniels was one of the many litigators who left Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison with intellectual property partner James...