SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar mailed ballots to its members Tuesday, asking them to elect a handful of new governors for Los A...

A failed murder prosecution nine years ago came back to haunt Santa Clara County officials Tuesday when a federal appeals cour...

Always active in nonprofits, Marin County Superior Court Judge Faye D'Opal sees her judicial post as one more opportunity to s...

During 35 years as a San Francisco prosecutor, Linda Klee has earned some unforgettable nicknames, like Black Widow and Killer...

SACRAMENTO - A former defense investigator admitted Monday that she faked documents in an effort to prevent four men from bein...

LOS ANGELES - Nixon Peabody announced Monday the selection of real estate attorney Paul E. Schrier as managing partner for the...

SAN FRANCISCO - What did former legislator Jackie Speier do after being termed out of her state Senate seat in November? ...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County's district attorney has ratcheted up his attack on a trial judge, taking the unusual step of barr...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Take an underperforming company with a plethora of promising new drugs, mix in a ravenous appet...

Focus Column - By Margaret Grignon and Zareh Jaltorossian - The California Supreme Court has come down squarely on the side of...

After attorney Lisa M. Meyers got into a dispute with Cold Stone Creamery over her new franchise, she was forced into arbitrat...

The water got hotter Monday for Los Angeles' Christensen Glaser Fink Jacobs Weil & Shapiro as a state appellate panel put ...

WASHINGTON - In a major legal shake-up that weakens protections for patent holders, the U.S. Supreme Court made it easier Mond...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether President Bush has the power to force state courts to reco...

Former residents of a Palmdale apartment building have settled a $1 million lawsuit alleging slumlike conditions in a seven-un...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - When Don Imus or some other voice goes silent because hardly anyone cares to listen any more ...

Attorney Ruben Smith, born and raised on the streets of Guadalajara, was determined to create a better life for himself and hi...

Government-approved labels on tuna cans say "dolphin-safe," but a federal appeals court is not convinced that regulators have ...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - Thomas Jefferson School of Law student Christie Edwards has received the secon...

Stanley Leal, a longtime San Jose area plaintiffs' attorney who continued working long after he was diagnosed with pancreatic ...

Industry Watch - By Drew Combs - Attorney Katherine L. McDaniel has moved her trademark and copyright practice to the 35-attor...

Industry Watch - By Anne Marie Ruff - LOS ANGELES - Dreier Stein & Kahan has picked up a team of transactional lawyers fro...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - The "merger effect" has struck again: Founding partner Gerard Fox and partner ...

Industry Watch - By Jason Song - Three Los Angeles attorneys are among a team retained by the 2007 Special Olympics World Sum...

Focus Column - By Belynda Reck - California has long stood at the forefront of environmental regulation and litigation. One hi...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - Liane Randolph, immediate past chairman of the California Fair Political Practices Commissi...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - After eight years at small Century City shop Altman & Morris, white-collar...

Forum Column - By Daniel W. Bir - Major League Baseball controls virtually every revenue-producing avenue of the great America...

Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps' San Francisco office is making a stir in th...

LOS ANGELES - For a moment, it seemed the co-creators of "Will & Grace" might be the beneficiaries of something most unusu...