SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward has sparked internal controversy by laying off secretaries and paralegals in Palo Alto without...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judges Paul H. Alvarado and Robert L. Dondero have nominated themselves to be assistant presiding judge of Sa...

RIVERSIDE - Ten years ago, Riverside County sheriff's deputies found Terese Stewart, 29, dead in her mother's home, her body s...

LOS ANGELES - Jury deliberations are slated to begin today in the shoplifting trial of actress Winona Ryder, who is accused of...

A bid to have the state Supreme Court reinstate an $88.5 million class-action fee award that was rejected as grossly excessiv...

LOS ANGELES - Irv Rubin, the fiery president of the Los Angeles-based Jewish Defense League, has been hospitalized in grave co...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider what steps states can take to regulate telemarketers who seek dona...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward has sparked internal controversy by laying off secretaries and paralegals in Palo Alto without...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Commission on Judicial Performance, the state's judicial watchdog agency, Monday released a 10-year summa...

ATTORNEY ASSAILS POT RAID - The operators of Santa Cruz's medical marijuana cooperative were not engaged in interstate commer...

Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - Law firms should do everything in their power to ensure that the information provided in th...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - More than two years have passed since the United States Supreme Court ruled that public off...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court taught a lesson Monday to lawyers who fail to get fee-sharing agreements in writ...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Hollywood movie studios recently won an important round in this country's everlasting culture war o...

SAN JOSE - The operators of Santa Cruz's medical marijuana cooperative were not engaged in interstate commerce and therefore ...

LOS ANGELES - While prisons have made strides in reducing suicide risk, they need to do more, experts say. ...

Rick Cohen is settling into his new role as the next president and chief executive officer of Los Angeles' Buchalter, Nemer, F...

Sunnyvale's Oculex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has raised a hefty $50 million in its latest round of venture funding, which will supp...

Alarm is spreading among neutrals throughout the state. They see a core principle of mediation - confidentiality - threatened ...

The old adage of law firms being boys' clubs still holds true, according to a study released by the National Association for L...

In Closing Column - By Nina B. Ries - The 1996 film "Jerry Maguire" coined the phrase, "Show me the money," and the term quick...

Litigation powerhouse Howrey Simon Arnold & White has focused most of its California expansion efforts of late on the firm...

A philanthropist who gave $1.6 million to USC wants his money back, and he's taking the issue to court. Paul F. Glenn, 71, hea...

Yo yo yo. John Kirkland is in the house. He's not a rapper, but he knows a thing or two about hip-hop culture. The Greenberg T...

Portland-based Bullivant Houser Bailey has added a pair of attorneys to the firm's San Francisco office, the firm announced O...

Minneapolis-based Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly also elevated a group of three associates to partner. Anthony Diepenbrock ...

Santa Ana's Callahan & Blaine is known more for its work in business and insurance litigation than personal injury, which ...

The partnership at Clifford Chance elected a new managing partner for its Americas region, the firm announced Oct. 11. John K...

Gladys Bohn carefully planned the details of her funeral, down to choosing peach carnations, yellow pompons and bronze and yel...

"Beer here - get your beer here!" That phrase, heard throughout sports stadiums in every part of the country, is so common tha...