FONTANA - He confessed to killing his girlfriend a decade ago, but Robin Woods walked out of jail a free man Sunday - two days...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday declared unconstitutional the search of a suspect who police mistakenly...

Column by Garry Abrams - Plans to transform the FBI into a counterterrorist organization are renewing the debate over domestic...

SAN FRANCISCO - Burdened with a huge backlog and with funding problems, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Monday release...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge here has changed his position on a controversial new housing law, partially striking do...

SANTA ANA - Another lawsuit has been filed against a Southern California priest - this time by an Orange County man who allege...

SAN FRANCSICO - James F. Perley Jr., a longtime trial and appellate court judge admired for his quick wit and plain-spoken app...

SANTA ANA - A woman whose allegations of sexual coercion sent a Los Angeles judge to federal prison began testifying in her la...

LOS ANGELES - A defendant who completes a diversionary program to get an indictment dismissed is not entitled to a reimburseme...

LOS ANGELES - Manatt Phelps & Phillips has added two attorneys to its music department: Milton Olin and Darrell Thompson. ...

SAN JOSE - A federal district judge has overturned a magistrate's order that would have required a company that markets a digi...

Dicta Column - By The Rodent - A recent news story reported that a major law firm is limiting the conditions under which assoc...

Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - State Bar President Karen Nobumoto, in her article "Getting Down to Facts: Attorneys S...

WASHINGTON - On the night of Nov. 28, 1997, Oliverio Martinez was riding his bicycle across a vacant lot in a residential area...

Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - Sections 203 and 304 of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Sections 203, 304, permit grantors of...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Should insurance company executives, employees and shareholders, not to mention people who ...

Telefnica Mviles has agreed to acquire a 65 percent stake in Pegaso Telecomunicaciones from existing shareholders, including L...

Sun Capital Partners Inc. will acquire BMK Inc. The $70 million deal was announced May 23. Judge Alan Ahart of the U.S. Bankru...

Ted M. Handel has joined Loeb & Loeb in downtown Los Angeles, where he is leading the firm's new affordable housing pract...

Traveling the globe to serve his clients, partner Allan Marks recently was in Mexico representing QUALCOMM Inc. in Madrid's Te...

Although most aspiring lawyers have the common sense to avoid battery charges, online sex sites and breast-baring moments, eve...

The Los Angeles office of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has nabbed a former Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom corporat...

James Nelson , a 20-year veteran of employment and labor law, has left Sacramento's indigenous Downey Brand Seymour & Rohw...

JDS Uniphase will acquire Scion Photonics from Tyco Ventures. Announced April 25, the cash deal is worth $43 million. San Jose...

In a deal announced May 14, ResMed Inc. has acquired Servo Magnetics Inc. for $32 million. Poway's ResMed makes and sells prod...

Juniper Networks Inc. will acquire Unisphere Networks Inc., a subsidiary of Siemens Corp. The cash-and-stock deal, announced M...

THe Closer - By Sandra Muñoz - It never ever fails. Whenever I am in court, at a deposition or even meeting with a client, no ...

The first firm in the nation to raise first-year associates' salaries to $125,000 in 1999 last month became the latest Silicon...

Northern California law firms that laid off associates after the autumn of 2001 have yet to face the music at on-campus recrui...

Gores Technology Group's acquisition of the Learning Co. from Mattel Inc. in October 2000 doesn't necessarily look like the ...