LOS ANGELES - Nearly 57 percent of the 7,618 people who took the California Bar Exam in July passed, meaning the state soon co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Partners won't be immune from the nation's recession, law firm consultants predict. Just as associates have be...

LOS ANGELES - Mark P. Robinson Sr., whose 51-year legal career left a legacy of service to his profession and to California, h...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the 1930s, a trembling, fledgling journalist from Yale University had the temerity to visit Supreme Court J...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Debra Yang has emerged as the front-runner for the U.S. attorney post in Los An...

SAN FRANCISCO - Neil Eisenberg, the public power advocate who finished last in a field of four candidates for San Francisco ci...

Misclassifying employees as exempt from overtime, meal period and rest period rules for executive, administrative and professi...

According to news reports, authorities have detained more than 1,000 people as witnesses in the Sept. 11th attacks. Among thos...

In Paschal v. Georgia , 84 G.E. 326, 10 S.E. 821 (1889), defendant Paschal was found guilty of selling whiskey and appe...

In "Illegal Defense: Bombings Violate U.N. Charter, Destroy World Peace Rather Than Build Safe Future" (Forum, Nov. 13), Marjo...

Whether a "day planner" or loose-leaf appointment notebook is a "bound diary" may seem as arcane and inconsequential as any le...

Here's a Thanksgiving thought: If international flimflam artist Florio Fiorini is blessed with a really long life, he'll be ab...

Don't believe everything you hear about the new world order. Though amusements parks since Sept. 11 have been in the toilet an...

Richard R. Castillo has joined the civil litigation firm Morris Polich & Purdy as a partner in San Diego, bringing along s...

LOS ANGELES - The attorney general's office has found that a memo sent by the executive officer of the Los Angeles Superior Co...

We have all been blessed with a world filled with risk. Life is a risky business, and baseball is rich in the lessons it provi...

Her boss raped her, and the trial court dismissed her sexual harassment case. The 32-year-old woman worried that a loss on app...

He left Latham & Watkins eight years ago as an associate and returned Nov. 9 as a partner. Prodigal son John Flynn vacated...

There are two theories on how to interview Marion "Suge" Knight of Death Row Records. In the first week of November, I was giv...

Williams Communications Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., has bought technology assets from Sunnyvale's iBeam Broadcasting Corp. The total...

Conceptus Inc. of San Carlos completed a private placement financing valued at nearly $31 million. New York's Merrill Lynch &a...

Sunnyvale's Peakstone Inc. received $12 million in venture capital. New York's J.P. Morgan Partners, the private equity group ...

You won't see cartoon characters bouncing and strolling down the halls of Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava &am...

In show business, if you can't bring either the talent or the money to the negotiating table, you're stuck bringing the coffe...

As David Makarechian ticks off a list of recent deals he's closed, he notices one predictable trend among them. "They're all t...

While many Silicon Valley firms have been trimming their attorney ranks, San Francisco-based McCutchen Doyle Brown & Eners...

Kevin J. Dunne is settling into his new role as chair of Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold , and he is setting his sights on ...

Daniel R. Mitz has left technology giant Sun Microsystems Inc. in Palo Alto. He will continue to work in the heart of Californ...

After 28 years at Los Angeles' Lyon & Lyon , partner Bill Steffin has left the intellectual-property practice boutique for...

Epicor Inc. of Sunnyvale received $20 million in a third round of venture capital financing. Menlo Park's Sprout Group served ...