SAN FRANCISCO - Call it the Battle for the Bay. Depending on who's right, the San Francisco Bay cruise market is not big enoug...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Ollie Marie-Victoire, at 80 the grande dame of the San Francisco bench, has defended murd...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether Vice President Dick Cheney has to release documents abo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court gave county prosecutors a green light Monday to bring misconduct charges against ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Closed-door negotiating intensified Monday at the state Public Utilities Commission over sticking points in th...

If Gary Singer didn't spend his days crafting corporate deals and serving as managing partner of O'Melveny & Myers' two Or...

Column - Trial Strategy - By Noelle C. Nelson - A celebrity in the courtroom poses a problem, be it Kobe Bryant, Robert Blake ...

Citing firm policy, attorneys at Palo Alto-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich refuse to comment on the departure of corpor...

Half of the attorneys from Santa Monica's Fogel, Feldman, Ostrov, Ringler & Klevens have new homes following the announcem...

Costa Mesa's Rutan & Tucker is still the big one in Orange County. But Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth added 13 lawyer...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY COMMERCE - ABM Plaza, a single-tenant office park at 5200-5300 S. Eastern Ave., has sold for $6.185 million...

Column - Law Firm Management - By David Bruns - The legal industry is highly competitive and has a very knowledgeable client b...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature took a pounding Friday from the Los Angeles City Council as local...

Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters made its first Friendship Award Gala an extravagant affair, hoping to catch the attention of...

Fed up with trying to advance his career in a big city, Scott Ferrell decided to pack up and leave behind his budding litigati...

Fearing an appeals process that would most likely slash its $934 million verdict, the state's largest this year to date, Beckm...

Elena Baca has joined the management team of the Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker as vice chair. Fi...

The California Minority Counsel Program continued its efforts to promote diversity within the state's legal community at its 1...

Seasoned legal-malpractice litigator Mary Catherine M. Bohen has redirected her career toward a family law practice. On Nov. 1...

A dispute between two heirs of the founder of a coffee company percolated for years, but it has hit the boiling point. In an e...

The interest continues to pile up as Village Roadshow Pictures Inc. fights a 2002 arbitration award in a suit stemming from a ...

LOS ANGELES - Downey Deputy Public Defender Anthony J. Cavalluzzi nervously looked on as his wife gripped his arm. At the fron...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Amir H. Raubvogel - Business decisions often depend on accurately determining an ass...

Forum Column - By Kevin Michael Notre - Ira L. Shafiroff finds AB205, the state's Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred - Should entertainer Michael Jackson's own children be immediately removed from his care and c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court officials hope to ease crowding at the Hall of Justice by moving the court's two traffic commis...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has upheld an order against Liberty Lobby Inc., ending another chapter in the long, drawn-out...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mara Rosales, who as general counsel to San Francisco International Airport oversaw the facility's 10-year, $3...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge has sanctioned civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman $15,450 in connection with erroneo...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Thomas Hansen didn't really want to become presiding judge. Although he was...