LOS ANGELES - Veteran litigator Kenneth Chiate is ditching the local office of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop for Los Ange...

LOS ANGELES - Nikki, who advertised as the "chocolate cutie" escort in the Los Angeles alternative newsweekly New Times, got t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association is calling for a boycott of the American Arbitration Association b...

SAN FRANCISCO - Although the academic and political debate over the value of English-only instruction vs. bilingual education ...

LOS ANGELES - Alan R. Markizon, a general corporate lawyer and mediator, has died. Markizon died Sept. 22 of cancer at his hom...

WASHINGTON - Senators questioned on Monday a Los Angeles Superior Court judge being considered for a federal judgeship about a...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco has a black mayor and a black police chief - yet the American Civil Liberties Union reported Mon...

SAN FRANCISCO - Undaunted by the meltdown in the dot-com economy, Stanford University Law School is investing in a new center ...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In In re Marriage of Lynn, 2002 DJDAR 9320 (Cal. A...

WASHINGTON - The 2,000 petitions for review rejected by the Supreme Court Monday included important cases dealing with judicia...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - One would think that the medical malpractice crisis is reaching epic proportions. Presiden...

LOS ANGELES - Cooley Godward and Pennie & Edmonds are discussing a merger that would create a 700-attorney top-tier compet...

SAN FRANCISCO - No means no. That's where most states draw a line between consensual sex and rape. But not here. California's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It has all the elements of an after-school TV special: partying teen-agers, drama between girlfriend and boyfr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired Kathy Patterson to build its West Coast pharmaceutical and medica...

Column by Garry Abrams - Add to the plentiful woes of the Walt Disney Co. a tearful, litigious, wealthy 81-year-old widow who ...

INDIO - Palm Desert family law specialist Basil T. Chapman was installed Friday as president of Riverside County's Desert Bar ...

LOS ANGELES - After years of waiting, victims of slave and forced-labor camps in World War II Germany and Japan got their day ...

Dicta Column - By the Rodent - Don't you wish that, just once, you got the chance to sit on the other side? Most lawyers spend...

Dicta Column - By Richard C. Neal - Most trial lawyers think the art of persuasion is their most important job skill. This bei...

WASHINGTON - The man who was convicted of the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. can collect hundreds of thousands of dollar...

Mariah Carey is singing a happy tune after scoring a legal victory in Los Angeles federal court. U.S. District Judge Christina...

After 18 years as a federal prosecutor, John S. Gordon had only one firm in mind when he decided to take up private practice. ...

The San Diego office of Baker & McKenzie has elected a new managing partner. Charles H. Dick Jr. succeeds Ali M. M. Mojdeh...

After raiding San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison for most of its 37 Bay Area lawyers, London's Clifford Chance is...

Lightconnect Inc. has 9 million reasons to celebrate, following its latest round of venture financing. The Newark-based compan...

Broadening its presence in the Golden State, Texas-based Guaranty Bank has scooped up seven bank branches. Advised by Manatt, ...

Ken Lemberger has left a 20-year career at Sony Pictures Entertainment to join the Los Angeles office of Kaye Scholer. "He is ...

In her 79 years on earth, Marjorie W. Day has made quite an impression, but perhaps none more lasting than as one of Orange Co...

Pure entrepreneurial ambition drove Henry Bunsow to leave his cozy home at San Francisco's Keker & Van Nest to help Howrey...