SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense lawyer Bill Fazio, a longtime rival for San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan's jo...

WASHINGTON - Weighing a major consumer-protection issue, the Supreme Court justices indicated Monday that they will not allow...

Column By Garry Abrams - Roll over and squeal. No, this is not a line from the movie "Deliverance." It's part of the federal g...

SAN JOSE - The acquittal of a Russian software company of copyright violation charges under the Digital Millennium Copyright A...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer wants 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex...

Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - In negligence and breach-of-fiduciary-duty cases arising from an attorney...

SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest defense contractor won tactical victories in two California Supreme Court decisions Monday...

SAN DIEGO -District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis on Monday began putting her stamp on the department she wrested from Paul Pfingst...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether law enforcement officers can be held liable for damages if...

Teachers expect juicy red apples on Teacher Appreciation Day. Secretaries get special attention - probably a large vase of flo...

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to buy Sunnyvale's Scios Inc. for $2.4 billion in cash to enhance its biotechnology arsenal. ...

Milton Stewart decided early last year that his firm needed to do a better job developing new business. The economy was in the...

It's not the stuff of "Joe Millionaire," "Survivor" or the myriad other reality shows flooding America's television sets, but ...

As law firms scrambled to hire Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison attorneys, a Greenville, S.C.-based labor an employment law bou...

Cooley Godward picked up a pair of patent attorneys last month. Roberta Robins and Dahna Pasternak both joined the firm as pa...

San Diego-based Jack in the Box Inc. has acquired Qdoba Restaurant Corp., making it the latest fast-food chain to expand into ...

With a room full of 400 mediation and arbitration professionals, you can bet the stories of who's settled the toughest cases w...

Boston Properties Inc. has executed a lease at Times Square Tower with Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers, the office buildin...

Longtime San Diego County Superior Court Judge Lawrence W. Stirling is leaving the bench to become a lobbyist, he announced j...

Energy and environmental law practices are slow these days, but that hasn't prevented Nixon Peabody from building its West Coa...

A disability rights lawsuit against a dentist was a case both sides felt had teeth. The plaintiff, John Taylor, a quadriplegic...

In Closing - Public Relations - By Elizabeth Lampert and Lori Greenspoon - Once a media and marketing industry standard, the p...

Hoping to advance her career, Parquette Hamilton accepted a promotion from bus driver to manager-in-training at the Compton fa...

Telecom equipment company Calix Networks has kept out of the spotlight since its founding, but it suddenly has taken center st...

Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones, the ber-bankruptcy boutique with offices in California, New York and Delaware, ha...

There are few states where pharmaceutical giant Pfizer isn't confronting controversy surrounding its subsidiary Parke-Davis, w...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips appointed William T. Quicksilver as its first chief operating officer and deputy managing partne...

A Palm Springs condominium owner's suit against a next-door neighbor for smoking on his patio survived a demurrer last month. ...

A pastry chef in San Rafael has dished out a class action against computer software makers and retailers. Cathy Baker alleges ...

A slight rephrasing of the aphorism "One man's loss is another man's gain" seems to apply to Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathi...