SACRAMENTO - A state appellate court has again reinstated two jury-imposed second-degree murder convictions in a 1996 Placer C...

SAN JOSE - California companies and their out-of-state competitors are racing to courthouses in legal battles over high-tech e...

Dicta: Movie Review By Stephen Zager Ancient Rome was a time of dictatorship and totalitarianism. One man controlled the laws ...

Virginia M. Simons, president of the California Association of Legal Document Assistants (formerly the California Association...

Often described as "boutiques," domestic violence courts have been established in a number of court systems throughout the cou...

Bottom Line: By Nader Anise In the often-misguided world of lawyer marketing, several schools of thought prevail: the "all I n...

RIVERSIDE - In a dramatic conclusion to the politically charged case of an abortion provider convicted in the death of a patie...

Sports: By Shirley Landau The A Division Championship was a very fast-paced game. The teams of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips a...

SAN FRANCISCO - When comedian Dana Carvey settled his multi million-dollar malpractice suit against a top Bay area heart surge...

A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge to the $206 billion settlement between the Big Five tobacco companies and 46 s...

For 10 years, Camarillo's Vitesse Semiconductor Inc. has depended on the versatile legal representation of Francis Currie, a c...

Los Alamos, N.M., residents who think the federal government is going to compensate them adequately after this month's devasta...

The Closer: By Arthur Gross-Schaefer Attorney burnout is a critical problem that needs to be addressed in a proactive manner b...

Deals: Santa Monica's X:drive Inc., which specializes in Internet storage and file-access services for global corporations and...

Deals: Bank of the Sierra, headquartered in Porterville, has acquired Bakersfield's Sierra National Bank. The value of the dea...

Deals: Internet imaging company Xippix Inc. has acquired Cafex Corp., a Larkspur-based company that designs and develops datab...

Forum: By Robert A. Levy No, Congress didn't authorize a Food, Drug, and Tobacco Administration. Despite the Clinton administr...

Firm Watch: Chicago-based Winston & Strawn has added three more partners to its Los Angeles office: commercial litigators ...

Corporate Councel: The entire nation's in-house bar is feeling victorious after a near-unanimous California Supreme Court ruli...

The drumbeat for an outside investigation and oversight of the Los Angeles Police Department continued to build last week . Me...

Running Springs attorney John R. Marcus filed a lawsuit Thursday against the San Bernardino County Superior Court, alleging th...

Firm Watch: Crosby Heafey Roach & May announced it has recruited 10 new associates: three in San Francisco, three in Los A...

Firm Watch: Two corporate and securities lawyers - Nora Lynne Gibson and John L. Donahue - have been nabbed by Palo Alto's Wil...

Attempts at the state level to put an end to race-based policing remain caught in the swirl of local politics. Late last week,...

After spending 28 years at Los Angeles-based Tuttle & Taylor, senior tax partner C. David Anderson has defected to Los Ang...

Firm Watch: San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster continues to expand its presence in San Diego by recruiting Craig A. Schlo...

The Los Angeles County alternate public defender's office said Friday that prosecutors have rejected its request to soften the...

Firm Watch: Century City's Irell & Manella has recruited Eric Suddleson , former head of business and legal affairs at Los...

SACRAMENTO - The grim scandal involving 5,000 sets of cremated human remains found in a Contra Costa storage locker in 1997 ha...

Flamboyant Los Angeles trial attorney Pierce O'Donnell and his firm of jugular-fixated young Turks had a huge week last week. ...