SACRAMENTO - Just as in Congress, privacy bills face long odds in the state Legislature. Take the case of Sen. Debra Bowen, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Consumers waiting for Congress to give them control over how companies use their personal information may be ...

LOS ANGELES - How can nine jury members go about deciding with moral certainty whether a man deserves to live or die? The Supr...

The California District Attorneys Association and California Attorneys for Criminal Justice estimate that the state seeks the ...

WASHINGTON - Ruling in a police-brutality case from San Francisco, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday made it easier for officer...

LOS ANGELES - Marvin Mitchelson has more lives than an entire litter of accident-prone cats. In the last few years, the legend...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative, t...

Among actions announced Monday by the justices were:

The Asian carmakers of the world have chosen Orange County and south Los Angeles County as their corporate home away from home...

Media conglomerate Vivendi Universal and online music sharing site MP3.com Inc. have kissed and made up - so to speak - with t...

Internet service providers NetZero Inc. and Juno Online Services Inc. have merged. The stock deal's value was not disclosed. W...

Semiconductor maker LSI Logic Corp. has agreed to buy a division of American Megatrends Inc. for nearly $222 million in cash....

After his Los Angeles firm was acquired earlier this year by Dallas' Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, real estate man Bob D...

The parent of California National Bank will buy Bank Plus Corp. of Los Angeles for $150 million in cash. Privately held FBOP ...

When revered Stanford Law School professor Larry Lessig decided to try out law-firm life, he skipped the glitzy technology and...

Troy, Mich.'s Delphi Automotive Systems Corp. has completed a $500 million global offering of notes, due 2006, in New York. I...

The unexpected death of Tom Burke, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's labor and employment group chair, has saddened and shocked...

If you're a lawyer, you know that everyone, including your mother, has a scathing joke or two up her sleeve about how connivin...

Half of San Francisco's Georgopoulos & Pahlavan took his practice to the Palo Alto office of Manatt Phelps & Philips. ...

Memory chip maker Cypress Semiconductor Corp. will acquire privately held Lara Networks Inc., a designer of advanced chips us...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who allegedly sent more than 100 menacing e-mails to opposing counsel after losing an egg price-fixing...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Minority Council Program has bestowed its 2001 Law School Racial and Ethnic Diversity Award on ...

Two recent cases favoring the owners of e-cards.com and cars.com suggest the possibility that owners of borderline-generic dom...

Paris-based Vivendi Universal S.A. has agreed to buy San Diego online music-sharing site MP3.com Inc. The cash and stock deal...

It's easy to find Joseph R. Taylor in the crowded Brentwood restaurant Toscana. He's the tall, youthful-looking diner with a g...

Editor's Note: The reality-based TV show "Survivor" puts average people through physical and mental challenges that border on ...

Recently, Walnut Creek lawyers Kenneth Ward and Linda Wyner defended a veterinarian who was sued for malpractice. The case was...

Latham & Watkins is the largest of two California law firms named among the world's best by Chambers & Partners, a Lon...

Michael Miller, co-founder of Beverly Hills' Sherman Nathanson & Miller, has moved to Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan...

Despite the recent high-tech slump, entertainment companies still are scrambling to find ways to take advantage of the Interne...