By Garry Abrams LOS ANGELES -On Oct. 22, 1996, in a Los Angeles courtroom, Death Row Records impresario Marion "Suge" Knight ...

SACRAMENTO - Possession of an ounce or less of marijuana would be reclassified from a misdemeanor to an infraction under a jud...

LOS ANGELES - Pets apparently are worth more than lawyers to city officials who slashed funding to an AIDS-HIV legal service w...

Among actions announced Monday by the justices were: OPINIONS SECURITIES FRAUD: The justices ruled unanimously that a company ...

LOS ANGELES - The elderly man hoped for the best when he left his comfortable home to enter the hospital. Never in his wildest...

San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe scored a coup May 7 when Howrey Simon Arnold & White intellectual prope...

Now that the public markets aren't looking so hot, partners at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are using the...

You may soon be ticketed for using a cellphone in your car. Hundreds of bills have been introduced in state and municipal legi...

After 13 years in the Danville main office of Gagen McCoy McMahon & Armstrong , land-use lawyer Patricia Curtin is gazing...

At first glance, Dominika Stryczek may not seem so squared away. Just 17, in high school and with a baby, Stryczek is on welfa...

The San Francisco office of Seattle's Preston Gates & Ellis brought on two pairs of lawyers in the past two months. Most ...

Despite recent reports to the contrary, casual wear at the office is here to stay. At least at the law firm office. ...

Can a murderer repent? In their recent amici brief filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in support of the habeas corpus petitio...

Tampa's Holland & Knight continues its aggressive Western expansion plan with the acquisition of seven lawyers from Los A...

Come June, the Oakland home office of Crosby Heafey Roach & May will be having a face-lift, and later this year, its Los ...

LOS ANGELES - Deborah Ann Thompson, who represented the city of Irwindale in its bid to get the Raiders football team, has di...

Sunnyvale's Somnus Medical Technologies and Cardiff, England's, Gyrus Group have agreed to merge. Under the terms of the agre...

Rochester, N.Y.'s Eastman Kodak Co. has agreed to buy Berkeley's Ofoto Inc. The companies did not disclose the financial term...

Munich, Germany semiconductor company Infineon Technologies will buy San Jose's Catamaran Communications Inc. The stock deal ...

Today's fluctuating economy hasn't been all bad for Michael Danaher's client, Catamaran Communications Inc. The privately held...

Anyone who has litigated a trade-secret misappropriation case in California in the last decade and a half is intimately famili...

It's an understatement to describe Lents & Foley as "family-friendly." After all, the two-lawyer Irvine office comes compl...

Publicly held network switching technology company Network Peripherals Inc. and privately held storage infrastructure softwar...

The professional association charged with keeping Hong Kong lawyers in line has greenlighted Morrison & Foerster 's appli...

THE SCENE Madelyn Chaber, who won the first Trial Lawyer of the Year Award in 1999, has won it again, this time for her groun...

San Diego's Xcel Pharmaceuticals Inc. has received $70 million in first round financing. Domain Associates of Princeton, N.J....

Katten Muchin Zavis litigator and former gymnast Zia Modabber can do back flips and swing from the parallel bars, although his...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not surprising that the issues that galvanize Californians - energy, education and health care - are the...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney for convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz dissected the governor's claims of ultimate authority ove...