SAN FRANCISCO - The rationale for Monday's appellate court decision delaying the October recall election six months mirrors t...

SAN FRANCISCO - They bill themselves as crusaders for the little guy. Their briefs are filled with ideas to improve class act...

Clyde Wadsworth, a veteran San Francisco litigator, says he's returning to his roots at Steefel, Levitt & Weiss. Having re...

The Santa Monica office of Greenberg Traurig has recruited its fifth tax specialist. Gordon A. Schaller, 54, joined the firm S...

After a series of setbacks, including the departure of three key partners, Leo Murphy promised good news soon for Schnader, Ha...

In 1969, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May began to build an appellate practice. Today, the 1,000-lawyer firm known as Reed Smit...

Alyssa Polacsek called Debticated Consumer Counseling Inc. two years ago, desperately looking for help paying off $20,000 in c...

Column - Public Relations - By Elizabeth Lampert and Sheila O'Gorman - Public relations is becoming an important marketing and...

Mike and Linda Cherniske couldn't understand why their cows seemed to die so much more easily at their new dairy farm in Delta...

Column - Trial Techniques - By Sanford Michelman - What attorney wouldn't want to win a case before it begins? While it's not ...

Morrison & Foerster real estate co-chair Donald Berger has left the firm's Los Angeles office for Latham & Watkins. Be...

A Catholic organization has sold 200 acres of undeveloped property in Northern California to a public agency whose mission is ...

When Littler Mendelson decided to become the country's largest employment and labor law boutique in the 1980s, it began a slow...

The legal department of the Recording Industry Association of America is busy these days. After shutting down song-swapping ne...

William Kissinger worked, first, for the federal government, then for the state, during the past six years, some of it during ...

Drug company Metabolex Inc. has secured $27 million in late-stage financing to support its clinical-trials program. The financ...

The city of Lodi paid $200,000 last month after police shot and killed a mentally ill Vietnam veteran who tried to light a hom...

A new school for children with brain injuries has opened in Orange County, with help from the local office of Morrison & F...

McData Corp. is scooping up two privately held Silicon Valley companies to enhance its storage networking capabilities. In lat...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert Hulse - To receive a patent for an invention that is new, useful and nonobvio...

Forum Column - By Ramona Ripston - Marriage equality should exist for all Americans, including gay and lesbian couples, in con...

Forum Column - By Bruce M. Brusavich - The new proposals issued by the Judicial Council's blue ribbon panel on the fair and ef...

SANTA ANA - A plea agreement that will put former attorney Mark Roseman behind bars will have little effect on the trial of hi...

CORONA - One of the largest home-improvement companies in the nation has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a class action i...

OAKLAND - City Attorney John Russo has closed the books on his second full fiscal year as Oakland's city attorney. Even though...

SAN FRANCISCO - Concluding months of gamesmanship between San Francisco's most powerful law firms, Heller Ehrman White & M...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man's recent conviction for burglarizing the home of San Francisco Superior Court Judge Robert Dondero has a...

LOS ANGELES - Two years to the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, a Los Angeles jury slapped a Torrance laboratory with a $2.15 m...

LOS ANGELES - The hustle, bustle and hum of traffic court is in contrast with Commissioner Diana Summerhayes' earlier days as ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals looks vulnerable, thanks to a 9th U.S. Circuit Co...