Where an agency's denial makes clear the extent of development permitted, ripeness rules do not require the submission of furt...

LOS ANGELES - The federal judges of the Central District of California voted to keep John S. Gordon as interim U.S. attorney w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property attorney Ed Lynch has left Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe for Coudert Brothers, and...

It seems hard to get through a day lately without hearing about new layoffs at one of the Bay Area's stalwart firms. Firms tha...

LOS ANGELES - A convicted felon who falsely claimed to be an attorney and bilked "clients" out of thousands of dollars was sen...

SAN FRANCSICO - PeopleSoft Inc., a Pleasanton business software maker, has been hit with a $5.45 million wrongful termination ...

During the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century, Dr. Philippe Pinel entered the newly liberated jails and hacked o...

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General liability insurance policies typically require insurers to defend their policyholders against third-party lawsuits tha...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has received an award for innovative business practices an...

Busy lawyers often overlook possible business development opportunities by focusing too much on the specific projects at hand....

LOS ANGELES - Beverly Hills tax attorney, author and lecturer Bruce I. Hochman has died. Hochman died of heart failure Saturda...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reinstated part of a lawsuit brought by smokers against San...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hera, one of the Presa Canarios involved in the January mauling death of Diane Whipple, has survived to fight ...

The Dodgers play one of those rare day games at the ravine today. In the old days we called them "Businessmen's Specials," but...

SAN BERNARDINO - Attorneys have reached a $1.2 million settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging the Ontario Police Depa...

RIVERSIDE - A state appellate panel has affirmed a teen-age boy's conviction of unlawful peeking, finding that prosecutors wer...

LOS ANGELES - Paul Caruso, a titan in the Los Angeles criminal defense bar and a founding member of the Italian American Lawye...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Monday for David M. Durst, a retired Santa Monica Municipal Court commissioner. Durst d...

SAN FRANCISCO - The next city attorney will not be named Morales, Holtzman, Connolly, Harris, Yaki, Katz, Conroy, Keane, Knox,...

SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Ventura County judge who was suspended from the bench in 1999 for drunken misconduct is not entitled...

SAN JOSE - Networking firm Redback Networks has sued a competitor and two of its former engineers for trade-secrets theft, all...

LOS ANGELES - By the time a jury awarded him $3.8 million in damages stemming from his 1991 beating by Los Angeles Police Depa...

SAN FRANCISCO - A farmer who plows too deeply can be subject to heavy fines under the federal Clean Water Act for destroying w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers are filing more asbestos suits than ever, according to a study scheduled to be released today. But the...

Take his day job. Please. When a disgruntled, mentally unbalanced client stabbed him in the chest with an ice pick in 1987, cr...

WASHINGTON - Trying to balance the public's right to see federal court files and privacy concerns in the Internet age, a commi...

LOS ANGELES - Bankruptcy lawyers and judges fear that a trio of provisions in the Bankruptcy Reform Act awaiting final action ...

Lawyers call full-time Earl Willen "the gentleman mediator": diplomatic yet relentless, no hard sell when a soft push will wor...

Here's a test: Picture a drug dealer. What image comes to mind: A burly, tattooed biker? An inner-city African-American teen-a...