SAN FRANCISCO - Injunctions aren't one size fits all. In a just-published ruling, a state appellate court has ruled that an i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ethics isn't an abstraction for Justice Ignazio Ruvolo, of San Francisco's 1st District Court of Appeal. It's ...

Column By Garry Abrams - How will the war against Iraq ultimately play out on the streets of America? More parochially, how wi...

LA HABRA - Residents hoping to block big-box retailer Costco from building a new store here have taken their fight to court, f...

MARINA DEL REY - A 55-year-old Marina del Rey man has pleaded no contest to a hate crime after women of Middle Eastern descent...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde admitted "bad judgment" Monday in an evidentiary hearing b...

LOS ANGELES - They didn't have television - live or otherwise - when drafters framed the Geneva Conventions in the blasted-out...

SAN FRANCISCO - Documents governing funding for the eventual closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant contain a poiso...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Rodney G. Forneret has a smooth style on the bench that encourages lawyers on both sides of the counsel ta...

Arcadia plaintiffs' attorney Jay S. McClaugherty knew he had his work cut out for him during a recent trial in Rancho Cucamong...

After years of battling each other over patent disputes, two rival surgical-robot makers are putting aside their differences t...

After more than a month on the job, Edward Casey is learning what it takes to be a managing partner. Casey was made top lawyer...

Law firm managers are taking a harder look at partners' bottom-line profitability when determining compensation rates, accordi...

Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner has hired bankruptcy lawyer Peter Ito to lead its West Coast bankruptcy practice. Ito, who joi...

One of the first challenges that a trial lawyer faces at the conclusion of the voir dire process is the exercise of challenges...

It isn't every evening that former President George H. Bush speaks before a group of lawyers. But the 1,000 lawyers attending ...

The law firms below recently announced partner promotions; the list includes only attorneys in California offices. ...

San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Sylvia Lee Husing, a former prosecutor and sailing enthusiast who adapted to a variety of ...

After a little more than a year serving as managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Reed Smith Crosby Heafey, Janet Kwuon...

John Craig Escobar was waiting for his turn to pick up a load of asphalt for the El Dorado Irrigation District on a balmy Nove...

Canadian mining company Placer Dome Inc. has completed a $200 million refinancing deal. Placer Dome mines gold, copper and oth...

An Alameda County Superior Court jury has slapped Federal Express Corp., better known as FedEx, with $1.5 million in punitive ...

After 12 years working in the nation's capital, real estate lawyer Howard Parelskin was ready to return to the city of angels....

Chip manufacturer Broadcom Corp. of Irvine has acquired some of the assets of bankrupt company Gadzoox Networks Inc. Broadcom ...

Starting their own firm seemed to be in the stars, or at least in the fortune cookies, for Nedy Williams and Julianna Yasinski...

Partners and partner-track associates face pressure to attract new business to their firms. But if they try to act like tradit...

A Los Angeles entertainment attorney last month agreed to pay $100,000 and issue a written apology to the father of Dodi Al Fa...

3Com Corp. of Santa Clara will sell its CommWorks telecommunications equipment division to UTStarcom Inc. for $100 million cas...

The Scene arrived early for the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Southwest Region's 2003 Jurisprudence Award dinner on March 12....

Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner has hired bankruptcy lawyer Peter Ito to lead its West Coast bankruptcy practice. Ito, who joi...