They've spent the past few years steering public companies through new regulatory twists and guiding them through scandal-stre...
Top Northern California
Behind the Deals: Ten Corporate Law Firms That Made Them Happen
By Alexia Garamfalvin
Last year was a whirlwind for the deal makers and the lawyers who advised them. At least the first half of 2007. Now northern ...
Top Northern California
Political Law Firm Is Known as Republican Go-to Law Shop
By David Houstonn
California Republican Party chairmen come and go, but the legal counsel to those chairmen has remained the same for 25 years. ...
Technology professionals working overtime, caregivers and pesky San Francisco legislators who liberally mandate employee benef...
Larry Rabkin in the late 1990s found his firm facing a doomsday mantra - that the mid-sized law firm wouldn't survive in the i...
Coal is out. Solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biofuels, tidal and wave energy are in. Renewable power, with its promise of sl...
Top Northern California
In Bet-the-Company Cases, Northern California Firms Protect Their High-Profile Clients
By Alexia Garamfalvin
From backdating to plaintiff kickbacks, these leading northern California litigation firms handled cases for companies and ind...
SAN JOSE - A Redwood Shores company that provides a free mobile e-mail service has reached a licensing agreement with Microsof...
Six years have passed since a local reporter went to her car and discovered a dead fish, a rose, a bullet-shaped hole in the w...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo announced a $10 million settlement Tuesday with a real estate management company ...
Law Practice
Former Latham Partner and SEC Chair Cox Gets Look-See
By Alexia Garamfalvin
WASHINGTON - With the economy sure to be a major issue in this year's presidential race, some conservatives are calling on pre...
The San Diego Union-Tribune lost its bid in federal appellate court Tuesday to unseal highly sensitive documents in a massive ...
Focus Column - By Richard E. Posell - California's entertainment industry could be changed by a recent ruling allowing manager...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Father-of-Law: Often Overlooked, John Adams Built Foundation for Justice
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Roberto Javier Frisancho - John Adams did more to establish the rule of law and the rights that accompany it...
Oakland Judge Taylor Culver is responsible for settling disputes over child support payments and relishes the opportunity to...
Forum Column - By M. Katherine Baird Darmer - Baseball star Roger Clemens should be charged with perjury if he lied during his...
LOS ANGELES-When Cecilio Covarrubias went to a San Diego County emergency room with chest pains in January, all he could think...
LOS ANGELES - Even though a judge said the deal resembled an illegal kickback scheme and the money is long gone, Roger Lindmar...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court asked probing questions Tuesday about every aspect of the same-sex marriage debat...
When not competing in running events, Melvin D. Sandvig goes the distance as a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge. ...
A look at Northern California's largest law firms, leading litigation and corporate shops and the booming practices in corpora...
Web Exclusive - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's la...
Plus ça change. There wasn't a tremendous amount of movement in the Daily Journal's annual rankings of northern California fir...
Together for 15 years, Diane Sabin, left, and Jewelle Gomez are plaintiffs in the same-sex marriage case before the state Sup...
Diane Price not only became the second woman on the Napa bench but also is presiding judge of the criminal division, despite h...
Four McDermott, Will & Emery corporate finance attorneys, including Eric R. Reimer, chair of the firm's corporate finance ...
LOS ANGELES - The UCLA School of Law has hired Hiroshi Motomura for the faculty, making him the first full-time tenured immigr...
SANTA ANA - Six Californians are among the 18 lawyers, scholars and advocates to receive fellowship grants from George Soros' ...
SAN FRANCISCO - With a string of losses under its belt, the Navy's last hope in its battle with environmentalists over sonar u...
Forum Column - By Linda Tarr-Whelan - The United States needs to follow the lead of other countries and elevate more women to ...