SACRAMENTO - A commission studying political campaign activity on the Internet will call for nurturing rather than restricting...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a move to compete with London's Magic Circle firms in Italy, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has opened ...

LOS ANGELES - Former private investigator Anthony Pellicano, locked away on federal weapons charges, remains the central figur...

SAN FRANCISCO - As three former Oakland police officers are arraigned today in the retrial of the Riders police corruption cas...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The American Bar Association urged the federal government Monday to stay out of the debate over gay marri...

SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William Danser, already suspended from the bench on criminal charges that he ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys Ira Barg and Brendan Conroy have carved out a subspecialty criminal defense practice that few lawyer...

Column By Garry Abrams - Hold your noses. It's time for another trip through Winnie the Pooh's garbage. Last week, Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court Monday upheld nearly all of a landmark $90 million award given to insurance claims adjust...

Known for having a strong insurance coverage practice, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May ran into a few client conflicts after i...

Intellectual property partner Terence Clark has joined Greenberg Traurig from Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. Clark, who began ...

Privately held American MSI Corp. tapped Newport Beach attorney Michael Mulroy for advice in its $12 million acquisition by pl...

Column - Employment Law - By Stephanie A. Collins And Patricia A. Kinaga - An employee who undergoes sex-change surgery poses ...

Daniel Mummery, a technology transactions partner specializing in outsourcing, left Cooley Godward in Palo Alto Jan. 31 to joi...

For San Diego appellate attorney David Niddrie, it was a case of lose a partner, gain a partner. Niddrie's partner, Jennifer S...

California banks Commercial Capital Bancorp Inc. and Hawthorne Financial Corp. are joining forces. Under a deal announced in l...

Column - Trial Strategy - By Douglas G. Carnahan - We know a trial lawyer's job is not to curry favor with the judge. Her job ...

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright isn't popular with everyone, she admitted to the Association of Southern Californ...

LOS ANGELES - The youngest girls ask the most heart-wrenching questions. A 16-year-old ward of the California Youth Authority,...

Mark Anderson, general counsel for San Francisco's Dolby Laboratories, wants to boost his three-attorney staff with the additi...

BAE Systems has tapped Susan Guggenheim Lowenstam to serve as general counsel and ethics officer of the company's Integrated S...

Full-service firm Michelman & Robinson is bolstering its insurance practice with the acquisition of Los Angeles insurance ...

An Orange County judge ruled against Hollister-based Safety Storage Inc., which allegedly tried to hide assets from a lender s...

When Bet Tzedek Legal Services secured a recent settlement for four Los Angeles garment workers, no supporter of the nonprofit...

The end of the year brought good news for the venture capital community. Investors put $4.9 billion in young companies in the ...

After 10 years of litigation, three trials and a 150-page decision, two squabbling water authorities have an interpretation of...

A small Northern California town must pay $46,817 in attorney fees after withholding public information from a local newspaper...

The Scene arrived at the Century Plaza Hotel and Spa a little early for Bet Tzedek's 30th-anniversary dinner. With the score o...

Online auction site eBay Inc. has signed a deal to buy mobile.de, a classifieds Web site for vehicles in Germany, for $152 mil...

Andrea Clay closed seven major commercial loan deals in her first month at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory. That's evi...