SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has held conversations with the city attorney's office over the future of d...

SACRAMENTO - Following a varied legal career in Sacramento and the Bay Area, including a brief but controversial stint as U.S....

SAN BERNARDINO - Judge Patrick Morris was waiting in a hospital cafeteria line just after the birth of his granddaughter last ...

SAN JOSE - Marking the boundaries between private computer networks and free speech in cyberspace, a state appellate court pan...

SAN FRANCISCO - Breaking into the highly specialized field of intellectual property litigation used to be like crashing an exc...

LOS ANGELES - Longtime criminal defense attorney and former Los Angeles police commission President Gerald Chaleff - fired ear...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eighty-four associates out of the 130 eligible for the buyout plan at San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Ha...

The holiday season has arrived, and companies and law firms will be hosting parties for employees. Leading attorneys are urgin...

Serving in the military during wartime carries many costs, including the risk of injury or death. But military service should ...

President Bush justifies his bombing of Afghanistan as a war against terror. A twin motive, however, is to make Afghanistan sa...

We have no idea whether 40 years from now we will be worried about terrorism, the Israel-Palestine conflict or the state of ed...

I vividly remember doing my first nonjury civil trial as a judge, not because the case was unique but because it taught me how...

The war against terrorism is generating a cornucopia of legal conundrums. The controversies range from the heated debate about...

In a case likely to become a leading case on support, the court in In re Marriage of Cheriton, 2001 DJDAR 10047 (Cal. A...

There usually is only one case in any law office where justice is being advanced, where the outcome promises to be dramatic. ...

Intellectual property boutique Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear soon will be on the move in Orange County. The firm has outgrow...

San Diego-based Price Legacy Corp. closed a deal on Nov. 28 with Swerdlow Real Estate Group Inc. to acquire five shopping cent...

The state of California has completed a $5.7 billion issuance of revenue anticipation notes, making the transaction reportedly...

The name partners at Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear face an unusual problem: They are forcing themselves out of their own int...

Ford Motor Co. signed a 10-year lease on Nov. 8 with San Francisco's Catellus Development Corp. The lease is for a distributio...

With two new attorneys, Fulbright & Jaworski expanded its labor and employment practice in Los Angeles. The Houston-based ...

EM Holdings Inc. has acquired eMachines Inc. The deal, announced Nov. 20, is worth $161 million. Garden Grove's EM Holdings is...

About 500 people packed into the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Traurig a few weeks ago to celebrate the firm's growth in the...

When John B. Goodrich joined Wilson Mosher & Martin in 1970, only eight lawyers practiced alongside him. The small Palo Al...

Call it smart strategic planning or a plain-old marketing spin - Peter Engstrom , the managing partner of Baker & McKenzie...

Mountain View's NetLogic Microsystems Inc. announced that it raised $22 million in its third round of financing. New York-base...

This wasn't the year to be up for partner at California's largest law firms. In 2000, San Francisco-based Brobeck Phleger &...

The California energy crisis, terrorist attacks and an economic recession almost derailed the single largest municipal financi...

Los Angeles-based VCA Antech Inc. announced its initial public offering of 14 million shares on Nov. 20. The offering is expec...

San Carlos-based Open Harbor Inc. raised $10 million in a second round of venture capital financing. Lead investors included D...