More than 1,200 Los Angeles-area plaintiffs' attorneys will converge on Las Vegas this weekend for the Consumer Attorneys Asso...

Trying to attract more couples as dinner guests, an Italian restaurant chain came out with tongue-in-cheek ads that showed a m...

San Diego-based Kemia Inc. has completed its first round of financing, bolstering the biotechnology company's ability to move ...

A number of partners could have led Thelen, Reid & Priest's San Francisco office, according to Mark Weitzel, vice chairman...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Wags might say that Ralph Capo's life has gone to the dogs, thanks to a lovable stray na...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The past is still present for Los Angeles attorney Dean Dennis. Many of the cases Dennis...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor With Gov. Gray Davis' signature at the bottom of the new state budget, the commercia...

San Francisco attorney Debra F. Bogaards successfully defended a car accident case seemingly against all odds. Her client was ...

John R. Tate has joined the Los Angeles office of Davis Wright Tremaine as of-counsel. Tate, a partner with Arter & Hadden...

LOS ANGELES - One wants to legalize marijuana. Another has the same name as a fitness guru but wants to slim down California's...

When attendees of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles enter the Mandalay Bay Resort and Hotel this weekend for t...

Fulbright & Jaworski has hired trademark lawyer John "Rocky" C. Rawls III from Jones Day. Rawls, who was with the Los Ange...

BY DANIEL J. VILLALPANDO Recently, Assemblywoman Loni Hancock introduced a split-roll property tax measure that could affect ...

Column - Intellectual Property - By Miriam Beezy and Herb Williams - Many in business believe that developing a catchy name or...

Lured by overseas opportunities, a subsidiary of Los Angeles investment firm Saban Capital Group has bought a controlling inte...

Column - Voir Dire - By Andrea Mosmann - California's one-day, one-trial jury service system has led to increased juror turnou...

Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - A split of opinion has developed between two divisions of the 2nd Distric...

Forum Column - By Christopher P. O'Connell - Lost in the cacophony created by Enron, WorldCom and other crises is a state Supr...

SAN JOSE - In a victory for the federal government in its continuing battle to enforce laws against medical marijuana, a fede...

WASHINGTON - Judges are susceptible to peer pressure just like the rest of us. So says a new study that examines the voting b...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - Renters usually end up in court only because their landlords have forced them there. ...

VALLEJO - A grizzly bear and big-horned sheep peer out from large faded photos hung for too many years on the chamber walls of...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has reinstated the claims of "extremely obscene" sexual harassment by two women workin...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal judge has made it clear that local sheriffs can't run to federal court to circum...

Column by Garry Abrams - Last week, I had a crisis over whether the California recall election constitutes, or could somehow c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing three years of unprecedented budget cuts, the state Judicial Council approved a range of cost-saving me...

Jon Sobel is leaving Yahoo! Inc., where he has worked as the Internet search company's top lawyer since March 2001, to return ...

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer The flood of 1 million square feet of new office space being planned or built in the city of ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Harrison J. Dossick and Katherine L. McDaniel - In Hollywood, they often say that "c...

Forum Column - By Deborah J. La Fetra - Do judges need friends? The usefulness of friend-of-the-court briefs is a recurring qu...