Kerry Shapiro only had to move downstairs when he switched law firms. Shapiro left the San Francisco office of Baker & McK...

The good news is that some companies have gone public in the past few weeks. The bad news is that the initial public offering ...

Gordon & Rees has nabbed securities litigation expert Michael P. McCloskey from the San Diego office of Baker & McKen...

BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires Here's a shopping tip: Think small. When it comes to regional shopping malls, that's exac...

San Francisco lawyer Mike Bettinger believes a lemon helped him win a defense verdict in a patent infringement case over radia...

The National Youth Leadership Forum on Law rolled into Los Angeles on Oct. 22, bringing 350 eager students from around the cou...

Entertainment lawyer Randolph Paul has joined Greenberg Traurig from Los Angeles' Gipson, Hoffman & Pancione as partner. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Aiming to stem the exodus of experienced judges from the bench, the state Judicial Council has approved a pil...

Sidley Austin Brown & Wood is expanding its presence in Japan thanks to a joint venture with a group of lawyers there, th...

OAKLAND - A nine-year struggle between an Alameda County supervisor and the chief probation officer has culminated in a ballo...

LOS ANGELES - Officer William Shipman of the Pasadena Police Department climbed into his cruiser and hit the streets for his r...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Washington, D.C.-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld laid off 12 attorneys and...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By William B. Sage - Until the Supreme Court gives us its final answer, the application of the e...

SAN FRANCISCO - With California's death penalty law approaching its 25th anniversary, a new rule will for the first time esta...

SAN DIEGO - Kristin M. Rossum has denied on the stand that she murdered her husband after he threatened to reveal her renewed ...

LOS ANGELES - World War II slave-labor victims and their heirs will be watching closely, as lawyers converge in Los Angeles to...

Focus Column - Business Law - By Lawrence C. Waddington - The Specht court chose to rely on venerable rules of contract...

LOS ANGELES - When the prosecution rested last week in the Winona Ryder shoplifting trial, jurors were juggling two conflictin...

Forum Column - By Miriam A. Krinsky and Robin Meadow - One-sided elections? What's that about? It might sound surprising, but ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four years ago, two California Supreme Court justices under attack from anti-abortion activists mounted a $1.7...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court's ruling that companies cannot escape liability for water pollution by selling the f...

Equipment rental company Rebel Rents Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, represented by Newport Beach boutiqu...

LOS ANGELES - Jane Renahan strode up to the podium to cross-examine the prosecution's star witness, Cody Ward. The stakes were...

LOS ANGELES - William Jensen Clayton, a savings-and-loans specialist and minority-rights advocate, has died. He was 78. Clayto...

Forum Column - By Miriam A. Krinsky and Robin Meadow - One-sided elections? What's that about? It might sound surprising, but ...

LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles Chief Deputy District Attorney Curt Livesay was a brand new prosecutor covering preliminary hea...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By William B. Sage - Until the Supreme Court gives us its final answer, the application of the e...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is in merger discussions with Philadelphia's Morgan, Lewis &...

SANTA ANA - Judge Richard E. Behn's decision Thursday to end a brain-damaged 13-month-old's fragile life probably has come at ...

SACRAMENTO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Thursday he will push for legislation to give his office greater crimin...