Jon Gallo specializes in estate planning for high-net-worth individuals, including technology entrepreneurs and sports and ent...

San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has received the "Deal of the Year" award for its transactional work that he...

All around the country, the Justice Department has filed lawsuits against localities for the offense of maintaining "at-large"...

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage has acquired Fred Sands Realtors of Los Angeles for an undisclosed amount. Operations of...

In Pavicich, the court converted a mere pleading hurdle to the filing of a civil-conspiracy claim against an attorney and clie...

Francisco Partners and Citicorp Venture Capital have joined forces to buy 80 percent of American Microsystems Inc. for $525 mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Arizona statute that criminalizes "experimentation" with fetal tissue from abortions is unconstitutionally ...

The Orange County Women Lawyer's Association has sworn in Michelle Lents, name partner at Lents & Foley in Irvine, as its ...

Three decades ago, much of Orange County was farmland covered with strawberry patches and orange and lemon groves. Today, it's...

After wrapping up a short term as general counsel to Torrance Web startup eStable Inc., Edward Swanson is once again plying hi...

In a publicity coup for all parties involved, the New York-based Forbes magazine named three Northern California law firms to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A determined mediator, widespread publicity and a pending motion for class certification all pushed Providian ...

California's law firms have to do much more these days to retain their best associates than simply give them hefty pay raises ...

After their firm decided to merge into Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld without them, the insurance group from Century City'...

Soy sauce is a wonderful condiment. I can't live without it. If it were possible, I'd have soy sauce-flavored toothpaste. Imag...

San Francisco's Union Square was at its merriest last month. The holiday decorations were up, and the trees were lighted. Stre...

What was once a perfunctory San Diego satellite office of Arter & Hadden has become a destination for several San Diego la...

SANTA ANA - As Orange County prosecutor Richard M. King prepares to take his newly appointed seat on the Superior Court bench,...

LOS ANGELES - After a long delay in filling empty slots on the state's courts, Gov. Gray Davis announced 16 year-end judgeship...

SAN JOSE - The legal battles between workers and their former employers in Silicon Valley usually take place in the technology...

SAN FRANCISCO - Controversial state regulations allowing auto insurance companies to base premiums largely on where drivers li...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners during 2000 managed to avert the kind of political struggle over t...

LOS ANGELES - Following up on an audit conducted about the time former Officer Rafael A. Perez allegedly stole cocaine from Lo...

LOS ANGELES - If Los Angeles had a person of the year for 2000, it likely would be Rafael A. Perez, the former Los Angeles Pol...

SAN FRANCISCO - Growing up in the shadow of the country's largest labor and employment law firm hasn't been easy, but Stephen ...

LOS ANGELES - As the Rampart police corruption scandal stewed, a slew of Los Angeles Police Department officers left the force...

Attorney Martin Webster remembers tough times during the Depression when his father scraped together enough money to make ends...

LOS ANGELES - Reversing a lower-court ruling, a state appellate court in Los Angeles has said a woman must pay half of the mor...

The '60s never seem to go away. Over the holidays, the Beatles topped the charts once again with a collection of their greates...

SACRAMENTO - California legislators who begin a new two-year session Wednesday anticipate debating a slate of bills to treat d...