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...

SAN FRANCISCO - When a Stockton judge tentatively approved a large national settlement in a consumer fraud class action last f...

Last month's American Bar Association annual convention attracted 15,000 lawyers, judges and guests to the city for five days ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Norma G. Formanek - In 1999, the American Bar Association ethics committee settled a long-stand...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Many articles have been written about what goes onto a winning résumé but not a l...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The state Supreme Court recently approved a settlement between Southern California Ediso...

RIVERSIDE - Services have taken place for U.S. Magistrate Judge Hollis G. Best, a respected jurist who gained notoriety in the...

SAN FRANCISCO - John M. Forney, the former Enron manager who allegedly designed such power-trading schemes as "Death Star," ha...

LOS ANGELES - Facing a $5 million budget shortfall, the district attorney's office is contemplating deep cutbacks in its speci...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Thursday ordered the postponement of a hearing set for today at which prosecutors were goi...

SAN JOSE - A federal jury Thursday cleared Advanced Micro Devices of discriminating against a high-level executive who claimed...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's easy to play the guessing game in Silicon Valley, where conversations about the demise of formerly presti...

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court Thursday reversed a San Fernando Valley man's robbery conviction, saying his defense lawyer, wh...