LOS ANGELES - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati will not match the base salary set in the latest salary war initiated by Sa...
SAN DIEGO - With his jaw wired shut from his injuries, the victim of a beating so severe it left his head misshapen told a jud...
The two opinions issued last month show that courts are following the legislative direction of 'Briggs.' ...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Mike (Walter L.M.) Lorimer, a renowned entertainment and labor lawyer. Lorimer die...
SANTA ANA - The owner of an Orange plasma manufacturing and distributing company pleaded guilty Friday to violating national F...
WASHINGTON - On the day before he left office, Bill Clinton once again managed to cleave opinion - this time about whether he ...
Solo and Small Firms
Family Law Specialist Quits Bar, With Charges Pending
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - After years of fighting fee complaints from clients and accusations of impropriety, family law and international c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto attorney Brandon Baum believes his brother was murdered when he was hit by a car in bizarre auto cra...
Government
Candidates Jockey for Position In U.S. Attorney Sweepstakes
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A favorite guessing game in the Los Angeles legal community these days is figuring out whom President George W. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Cordell Quits Santa Clara Bench For Stanford Administrative Post
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - LaDoris Cordell, a well-respected Santa Clara County judge who frequently courted controversy during her 18 years o...
Government
U.S. Attorney Heads to D.C. For Short Stint as DOJ's No. 2
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller III takes over the No. 2 spot in the Justice Department today on temporary assign...
SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati may have taken some of the wind out of the sails of this year...
Last week we witnessed a most unfortunate spectacle, which has taken the contentiousness in our political institutions to new ...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place in Washington, D.C., Wednesday for William F. Dwyer II, a former Beverly Hills attorney...
Leave it to New Economy companies to try to change the rules again. This time around they've convinced the U.S. Patent and Tra...
SACRAMENTO - A business lawyer, a developer and a one-time social worker are among the legislators appointed to the state Asse...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court has opened a Domestic Violence Clinic at the Inglewood Courthouse. The new clinic, wh...
Twenty years since the introduction of the 401(k) plan, employers and their workers are at a crossroads. This column will look...
Technology & Science
For Those on the Go, the Nearest Toilet Is Only a Few Clicks of the Hand-Held Away
By Andrea Rosas
The quest for the "killer" mobile application has sent wireless Web providers into a tailspin, trying to one-up one another in...
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. said this week that it is considering amending a merger agreement with Litton Indust...
Constitutional law scholars, lawyers and government officials will gather in February to discuss the implications of the recen...
You've spent your legal career practicing in state court. If you're not complacent, you're at least comfortable. You know what...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two dozen members of the Crissy Field Dog Group convened Wednesday night to plot how they would unleash their ...
SACRAMENTO - The chairman of the state Board of Equalization filed his own suit Thursday to challenge an $88.5 million fee awa...
VALLEJO - A defense lawyer at a death row habeas hearing Thursday moved to disqualify Solano County Superior Court Judge Frank...
Firm Watch
Squire Sanders: PRACTICE TAPS MOFO STAR FOR ITS OFFICE IN BAY AREA
By Staff Writer
Also on Jan. 2, environmental partner Kevin Haroff moved his Morrison & Foerster practice over to the San Francisco offic...
Under the doctrine of equivalents, a product or process that does not literally infringe a patent claim may nonetheless be fou...
Historically, Internal Revenue Service examiners were assigned to audit taxpayers in many different industries. On one day, an...
Although breaking up can be heart-wrenching, it can also be liberating and even quite lucrative - if you're a corporation. Spi...
With all the talk of defunct dot-coms and initial public offering riches turned sour, it was only matter of time before those ...