A prominent Hollywood director pleaded guilty Monday to three charges of making false statements in connection with the crimin...
The supervising judge of the Los Angeles criminal courts is vying with several candidates from within the office to be the cou...
Lawyers for Nicaraguan banana farm workers who allege they were sterilized by pesticides used by Dole Food Co. pulled a "fraud...
Mistakes happen. However, when an arbitrator makes a mistake, even clear errors of law, there is little that can be done to f...
James Wong and Emily Wong offer a glimpse inside the delivery of medical care in China, the largest socialist country in the w...
William McGrane of McGrane Greenfield is happy people like Michael Nava, a candidate challenging San Francisco County Superior...
Perspective
Bay Area Air District Sets Thresholds For Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Carla Pinedan
The Bay Area Air District's new thresholds for greenhouse gas emissions mark a significant development in pollutant emissions ...
Letter to the Editor
Nava Responds to Criticism For Challenging Incumbent Judge
By Sharon Liangn
Michael Nava, a candidate challenging San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer, defends himself against critici...
Price-fixing cases in California got a boost from the California Supreme Court on Monday, which unanimously rejected a defense...
Charles Schwab Corp. sued brokers for fellow investment giants Merrill Lynch, UBS and J.P. Morgan, accusing them of misreprese...
Los Angeles County Judge Robert M. Martinez comes off as shy and serious in court. Off the bench, he's a million laughs.
Entertainment & Sports
Verdicts Show Juries' Disdain for Profit-Sharing Contracts
By Jean Luc Renault
Sometimes, history can rear its ugly head. For several entertainment companies last week, that history was the 1990s. ...
Executive Vice President of Administration, General Counsel & Secretary of St. John Knits International Inc. Irvine ...
A one-time Newport Beach attorney pleaded guilty to fraud Friday for bilking clients and others out of more than $1 million. ...
Former biopharmaceutical executive W. Scott Harkonen claims his prosecution over off-label drug marketing should be dismissed ...
Five lawyers were elected to the State Bar Board of Governors, the bar announced Friday. ...
Mark Roeder and Alan Mendelson, partners in Menlo Park, advised iPierian Inc., a South San Francisco biopharmaceutical company...
AsiaInfo Holdings Inc. and Linkage Technologies International Holdings Limited merged in a cash and stock deal worth $733 mill...
A 56-year-old labor attorney who was passed over for a job as a staff attorney with a Bay Area transportation company can't su...
Judge Sherrill Ellsworth will take the helm of the Superior Court in the region that has experienced a lot of growing pains. ...
Civil rights lawyers have filed a proposed class action alleging Los Angeles County forces female jail inmates to undergo stri...
Mark J. Reichel says his client was badgered into testifying in molestation case. ...
ADR Services has created a specialty panel to handle disputes arising from the growing number of Korean business in Southern C...
Fighting against deceptive campaigning is difficult when the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't understand that the protection of free...
Doing a little bit of everything at once is a disaster waiting to happen. If you don't have time to do it right, don't do it a...
Patent litigators at Howrey bested WilmerHale in a trial that could lead to greater competition among companies in the semicon...
Lawyers advising biotechnology companies seeking a share of $1 billion in federal funds hope to build goodwill that pays divid...
Following his passions, a lawyer opens up his own firm servicing auto industry clients. ...
Wells Fargo & Co. is fending off claims that its checking account overdraft policies are illegal in a heated climate of ec...
Intellectual Property
Netflix Wants Losing Patent Plaintiffs to Pay Lawyer's Fees
By Craig Andersonn
Attorneys for Netflix Inc. are seeking to end what they consider a double standard that favors plaintiffs over defendants when...