ADR Practitioner Column - By Richard Chernick, This is the second part of the 2001 review of significant developments in ADR p...

LOS ANGELES - In a decision long awaited by employment lawyers, the 2nd District Court of Appeal has ruled in an unpublished o...

SAN FRANCISCO - James Pooley, one of Silicon Valley's preeminent intellectual property litigators, has left the well-establish...

SAN JOSE - Bill Priest fell just short two years ago in his bid to win election to the Santa Clara County Superior Court. This...

SAN FRANCISCO - Real estate law expert Harry Miller, of Miller Starr & Regalia in Walnut Creek, died Friday after a two-ye...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court ruled Monday that, when a defendant who is out on bail pleads guilty, the court must either c...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court cracked down hard Monday on a Sacramento civil litigator for failing for more tha...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has ordered a halt to a state-financed program to reduce fire danger in California fores...

Forum Column - By Ruth D. Shapin - It is said that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. In a recent article ti...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Monday indicated they will reject the claim by a group of landowners around Lake Ta...

Column by Garry Abrams - Winnie the Pooh continues to thump the living daylights out of Mickey Mouse in their epic, largely se...

Dicta Column - By Tim Hallahan - Stories try to make order out of chaos. They shape our lives. They instruct us. They connect ...

Family Law Practitioner Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Marriage creates a fiduciary relat...

Dicta Column - By Anne Bothwell - Dear Anne: I have been given the responsibility of being marketing partner at the firm, whic...

SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service will be held Wednesday for Thomas Berkley, who had a long and varied career as a lawyer, pu...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Dolores Y. Leal - Congratulations to Sacramento legislators and Gov. Gray Davis for passin...

Dicta Column - By Tim Hallahan - Stories try to make order out of chaos. They shape our lives. They instruct us. They connect ...

Dicta Column - By Anne Bothwell - Dear Anne: I have been given the responsibility of being marketing partner at the firm, whic...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Dolores Y. Leal - Congratulations to Sacramento legislators and Gov. Gray Davis for passin...

General liability insurance policies that cover property damage do not include damages for lost profits, loss of investment o...

BY CHRISTA BEEBOUT CREJ Staff Reporter Opponents of a regional shopping center in southern Sacramento County are taking the c...

The concept of a society governed by the rule of law is essentially that we all can anticipate how others will treat or react...

The name of Centex Homes, the buyer of 226 single-family lots in Brea and 54 lots in Signal Hill, was misspelled in the Dec. ...

Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins has eliminated the $10,000 stipends that it customarily gives to its incoming first-year att...

Stanley Young has replaced Michael Charlson as managing partner of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 's Menlo Park office. Y...

In the largest biotechnology merger in the United States, Amgen Inc. has acquired Immunex Corp. The stock and cash deal, annou...

Imediation acquired arcadiaOne Inc. in a stock and cash deal that closed Nov. 12. The terms of the deal are undisclosed. Paris...

BY MOTOKO RICH Dow Jones Newswires Here's a new mantra for real estate: timing, timing, timing. Two years ago, tenants were s...

Cynthia Pevehouse joined Ask Jeeves Inc. as its general counsel in January 2000 when the company was still swelling with succe...

Minneapolis-based Metronic Inc. has acquired Endonetics Inc. of San Diego in a deal announced Dec. 19. Medtronic provides prod...