SAN JOSE - Quentin Kopp, the former San Francisco supervisor and state senator who became a San Mateo County Superior Court ju...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that attorneys representing debtors in Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceed...

SACRAMENTO - California officially decided long ago that minors who commit capital murders should not be executed for their cr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Nevada finally may have freed hundreds of companies from infringement liability by invalida...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled unconstitutional a portion of the USA Patriot Act that bars giving expe...

SANTA ANA - Stepping up his campaign to shelter the courts from fiscal attacks, State Sen. Joseph Dunn said Monday he will hol...

Column By Garry Abrams - The deposition from hell is over, but the flames still burn hot, hot, hot. Yes, I finally can report ...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials have removed Deputy Attorney General John W. Riches from a class action aimed at improv...

Energy law attorney Leslie Lo Baugh has joined Los Angeles' Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro as p...

Column - By Scott E. Wendelin - As usual, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that equity capital markets are po...

Aided by Pillsbury Winthrop, Petaluma-based Advanced Fibre Communications Inc. has signed a $240 million deal to buy a unit of...

The money continues to flow into drug company Novacea Inc., and Silicon Valley lawyer Alan Mendelson couldn't be happier. Nova...

Loeb & Loeb has strengthened its corporate and securities practice with the acquisition of Beverly Hills' Richman, Mann, C...

San Jose company Redback Networks Inc., which recently emerged from bankruptcy, has closed a deal to receive $30 million in eq...

Bill Handel provides half-baked legal advice to hundreds of thousands of people every Saturday morning, and he could hardly be...

SANTA ANA - Fellow prosecutors call him an outstanding lawyer, perhaps the brightest and most driven U.S. attorney to come out...

To the victor go the spoils. A victorious plaintiff wins money to compensate for past wrongs and the vindication of battling a...

A provision in a recent settlement of a slip-and-fall case violates State Bar rules because it prohibits the plaintiff's attor...

Column - Law Practice - By Gerald G. Knapton - Over the last few years, state appellate courts have indicated that attorney fe...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired Thomas Zaccaro from the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served as he...

The imminent acquisition of New York-based advertising law boutique Hall Dickler by Reed Smith Crosby Heafey will move Reed Sm...

Commercial attorney Troy Zander is the newest partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, leaving Gray Cary Ware &...

Health care company Abbott Laboratories Inc. is buying Alameda-based medical device firm TheraSense Inc., which makes a blood ...

LOS ANGELES - Anthony Pellicano's attorney said he will file an appeal to try to knock out one of the firearms counts that led...

Steve Snyder spent 10 years resolving a messy insurance coverage dispute between Oakland's MacArthur Company and The Hartford ...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Last year's legislative session inaugurated more than 900 new laws. In th...

Forum Column - By Charles Bond - While Congress should have passed a Medicare drug benefit bill, no politician - or for that m...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Christina J. Imre and Jacqueline M. Jauregui - As many multistate employers are learning, C...

Forum Column - By Dilan Esper - I have seen few opinion pieces more wrongheaded than John Eastman's article titled "The U.S. C...

WASHINGTON - A leading liberal group on Friday charged that a number of President Bush's judicial nominees who now sit on the ...