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...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ian R. Grant has died. Grant, a former county prosecutor, died unexpect...

SAN JOSE - Stanford University has reached a settlement with former research scientist Colleen Crangle, who won a $545,000 ju...

SAN JOSE - Corporations who have increasingly made a habit of filing lawsuits seeking the identity of individuals who post ca...

SAN JOSE - Prosecutors say the Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case, which could go to trial as early as this week, is abo...

Lawyers representing the bankrupt firm of Graham & James confirmed March 14 that the firm owes $6 million to its creditor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two California Supreme Court justices who reportedly own tens of thousands of dollars in IBM stock apparently...

SAN FRANCISCO - A small Los Angeles software company is taking a new swing at giant Sony Corp. in the bitter battle over a pro...

VENTURA - Opting for leniency, a judge has sentenced Century City attorney John J. Reiner to 120 days in jail for attempting t...

LOS ANGELES - You're flipping through the pages of a magazine, past the advertisements for sport utility vehicles and vodka, w...

LOS ANGELES - One of the attorneys for former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson pleaded not guilty Thursday to...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday selected 50 prospective members for its 2001-2002 civil grand jury. ...

The single most common complaint to the State Bar by clients is, "My attorney won't return my phone calls." Few things seem to...

LOS ANGELES -A conservative, Southern California constitutional law scholar under consideration for appointment to the 9th U.S...

RIVERSIDE - The 4th District Court of Appeal has denied a request to order dismissal of criminal charges against Glendora law...

LOS ANGELES - The state appeals court that approved the use of DNA testing in criminal cases a decade ago now holds that newer...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali indicated for the first time Thursday that he is unwilling to free indepe...

LOS ANGELES - A special commission that has been studying the State Bar's mandatory continuing legal education program for nea...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's on-again, off-again conflict over litigants erasing trial court judgments as part of settlements...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali indicated for the first time Thursday that he is unwilling to free indep...

LOS ANGELES - In the past, unhappy investors who wanted to file claims against their stockbrokers had no way to find out much ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. claims in a lawsuit that an allegedly inappropriate relationship between a forme...

SAN FRANCISCO - An arbitrator is poised to award San Francisco's municipal lawyers a 17.5 percent pay increase over the next ...

In a recent decision, the California Supreme Court invalidated a city council-sponsored initiative for lack of California Envi...