Attorney Barrie Lynn Becker, executive director of San Francisco's volunteer attorney program Legal Community Against Violence...

Broadband fiber-optic network giant Qwest Communications International Inc. and Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software ...

If preparing for trial against a powerful health maintenance organization seems difficult, try commanding a Marine Corps helic...

LOS ANGELES - The $2.50 "energy" surcharge that Marriott International tacks on to its patrons' bills is fraudulent and mislea...

Computer giant IBM has agreed to buy the database business of Informix Corp. for $1 billion in cash. IBM, based in Armonk, N.Y...

Recent studies of the 2000 U.S. Census show an increase in the ethnic diversity of the United States. They also show a disturb...

SAN FRANCISCO - Old Republic Title Co. must repay $17 million to settle claims that it unlawfully pocketed interest earned on ...

Irell & Manella partner David Schwartz, who represents clients in commercial disputes, recently represented the United Sta...

A defendant's only prayer of avoiding joint-and-several liability when the United States sues for hazardous site cleanup costs...

To many employees at publicly traded dot-coms and other companies, the strategy seemed clear: Get a hold of some stock options...

SACRAMENTO - For the past year tiny Alpine County, which straddles the Sierra crest south of Lake Tahoe, has had just one judg...

The hardy smallish-big San Francisco firm Gordon & Rees named employment litigator Jim McMullen director of its Southern C...

LOS ANGELES - Seattle-based Preston Gates & Ellis has scored a corporate partner for its Irvine office. Bart Greenberg lef...

David Huard, a partner at Los Angeles's Manatt Phelps, recently won election to a three-year term on the board of directors of...

In the last two years, California has witnessed the federalization of local land uses to an extent not seen in the first 150 y...

After injuring both his legs in the National League Championship Series, Kirk Gibson surprised his Los Angeles Dodgers teammat...

BARSTOW - Jurors fidgeted uncomfortably Friday as they viewed autopsy photos of a pit bull's deep bite wounds in 10-year-old C...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of two critical utility hearings today may determine whether a federal bankruptcy judge will allow Pacific...

LOS ANGELES - Michael John Gennaco came to Los Angeles in the early 1990s to take on a police abuse case that no one else was ...

Sheri A. Bluebond, a partner at Irell & Manella, joined the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District. Bluebond repl...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers and the building industry, at odds for more than a decade over construction defect litigation, have...

IMPERIAL BEACH - From a remote, windswept bluff that straddles the U.S.-Mexican border just south of this small beachside comm...

The California Supreme Court's decision in Comedy III Productions Inc. v. Gary Saderup Inc., 2001 DJDAR 4162, the Three...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tanya Neiman's mantel must be listing under the weight of all the awards she has received during her 20 years ...

The California Supreme Court recently overlooked a chance to dispense justice. The high court refused to direct publication of...

LOS ANGELES - In a severe blow to a California-based high-tech company's main source of income, a federal jury in Virginia has...

SANTA ANA - Retired Municipal Court Judge Kenneth M. Smith, a Southland jurist whose sentencing of drug offenders to mandatory...

By Pamela A. MacLean DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - The stunning decision by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to s...

By Leslie A. Gordon Special to DJC Bankruptcy LOS ANGELES - Like fireflies to a light, except perhaps in reverse, California'...

The stunning decision by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to seek bankruptcy protection rather than a political solution to the...