SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for trade secrets over free speech, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that bu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kim Boyd, a devout Christian, never expected to fall in love with and marry a hardened criminal serving time i...

It was a sunny Sunday afternoon when The Scene entered the back lot of Fox Studios in Century City. The sounds of Bob Desena's...

The Costa Mesa office of Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has landed an admiralty and maritime practice with the addition...

Computers bring speed and efficiency to just about any job. But every employee probably has had one of those days where glitch...

Following the collapse of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden, Douglas Workman has joined Century City's Stephan, Oringher, Richman...

After stints at her own corporate boutique and at a large firm, Clara Martin is going it alone. ...

Santa Monica sole practitioner Jack L. Schwartz says he is in a David versus Goliath fight in a tenant-landlord case against a...

Four Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps attorneys have left the West Los Angeles office of that firm for Jenkens & Gilc...

When Jeffrey Dintzer of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher deposes an expert in an environmental case, he always has consultants with...

A Monterey attorney didn't mince words in a federal complaint filed against a restaurant owner who allegedly teamed up with a ...

The cutting-edge field of nanotechnology is attracting an increasing amount of venture-capital funding, according to a New Yor...

Jomed Inc., a subsidiary of bankrupt European company Jomed NV, has sold much of its U.S. assets to Volcano Therapeutics Inc. ...

Startup commercial printer Graphic Press Inc. has hailed a jury verdict as a blow to its competitor, ColorGraphics Inc., which...

Column - Construction Defects - By Lee Kanon Alpert - A multiparty construction dispute is a unique animal. When selecting a m...

Column - Media Relations - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - Law firms and other businesses have much to learn from the e...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda California law schools have twice as many vacancies for the position of dean as the national average, accor...

CHINO HILLS - Hear the one about the lawyer who became a comedian? True story. He was a corporate attorney pulling down six fi...

With Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich serving as its counsel, life sciences company Invitrogen Corp. has raised $350 million i...

By Toni Vranjes Renovis Inc., a South San Francisco company that makes drugs for neurological diseases, has raised an extra $...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's hard to imagine a more bleak or difficult job than that of San Francisco Court Commissioner William Garga...

Forum Column - By Scott Wm. Davenport - I hate trite legal expressions, the foremost offender of which is the proverbial "you ...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - For California parolees, 2003 hasn't been such a bad year. Two recent ca...

LOS ANGELES - A controversial brain-imaging test cannot be used to try to show that a 14-year-old boy murdered his mother and ...

FRESNO - Superior Court Judge Gary S. Austin can charm any jury. Attorneys who regularly practice before the 53-year-old juris...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan's latest setback in the Fajitagate prosecution is a modest victory for the ...

Forum Column - By Marie Tyler-McGraw - The temporary truce in Liberia between two ragtag armies of youths has many of the surr...

Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Kathrin Mautino - A recently filed habeas corpus proceeding in the U.S. District Court for...

Employment Column - By Deanna M. Wilkinson - Résumés are a part of a recruiter's life. We receive and review them daily, and a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Howard Schwartz, a retired judge who sat on the state Commission on Judicial Performance during its cataclysmi...