The Foundation of the State Bar of California will host its 10th anniversary gala at the St. Regis Hotel in Century City on Oc...

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. will acquire MMC Networks Inc. The deal is valued at $4.5 billion. Applied Micro Circuits makes h...

The termination of representation involves adherence to a number of intricate ethical rules in order to avoid a malpractice cl...

Patrick R. Jewick has joined the San Francisco office of Townsend and Townsend and Crew as an associate. Jewick, who has an un...

The acquisition of an environmental and development firm on the other side of the country will be a boon to the Los Angeles of...

San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster was named one of the top 100 employers for working moms for the October issue of Worki...

By Ira L. Shafiroff. Should society allow a convicted killer to become an attorney? In a morally questionable opinion, the Cal...

Practicing Law Institute, a provider of continuing legal education, is opening a "major California center" in downtown San Fra...

Los Angeles' Liebert Cassidy has merged with Whitmore Johnson & Bolanos of Mountain View. Effective Oct. 1, the name of th...

DaimlerChrysler de Mxico and Hyundai Motor Co. have reached an agreement that will allow DaimlerChrysler to import a new Hyund...

Rogers Joseph O'Donnell & Quinn, a business litigation boutique in San Francisco, has gained five new attorneys. Paul M. Z...

Two local professors Friday attacked Proposition 21, which they called the "demonization of youth" initiative, pointing to tre...

SAN DIEGO - Bemoaning the recent decline in lawyers' pro bono activities, California Chief Justice Ronald M. George Thursday c...

Patent litigator Edward G. Poplawski, a name partner at Los Angeles-based Pretty Schroeder & Poplawski, has defected to th...

Damian Monroe Williams and Tyrone David Killingsworth pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and robbery charges stemming from th...

Members of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners has signaled their support for state laws that would lower to 12 from...

Both sides claimed victory Friday after a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that dismissed some city officials from a...

Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan did an about-face Friday and signaled his willingness to sign a binding agreement with th...

It was what the hotel trade calls a "dirty room," one for which the occupants paid a full day's charge but then checked out ea...

If the case against nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee is so flimsy, why did the judicial system take so long to free him? Three fac...

Both sides walked away from a recent mediation in frustration, when John Allen, a victim of child sexual molestation, accepted...

Two lawyers from San Francisco's former Booth Banning reaffirmed their breakaway firm heritage by leaving to open the new San ...

By Marshall Fritz. While tax-funded vouchers introduce sorely needed competition into schooling, they have serious flaws that ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday asked U.S. officials to determine whether the United Kingdom still seeks extradition of t...

By Leonard Novarro. Cases are not won at trial. They're won at preparation, says Philip Harley. Harley, 53, was the lead attor...

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By Richard Amerian. "[W]e conclude a liability insurer cannot assert the comparative bad faith of its insured in the underlyin...

By Peter S. Doody. Wilson v. John Crane, 81 Cal.App.4th 847 (2000), is not significant so much for its holding, since it is li...

By Hera S. Arsen. Ask retired Superior Court Judge Bruce Sottile to summarize his philosophy on the role of a judge and he'll ...

The California Supreme Court recently held in two separate cases that under California's unfair competition law, Business and ...