Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's San Francisco office has added experienced employment litigator Jennifer G. Redmond ...

Some law-firm expansions are exotic; others, not so much. Foley & Lardner, which recently opened a Shanghai office, is add...

A group of retired professional football players, including Hall of Fame defensive back Herb Adderley and All-Pro defensive ba...

LOS ANGELES - The Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case has cast a long public shadow across Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, W...

SAN FRANCISCO - In deciding how to charge a juvenile offender for possession of three different kinds of bullets, a Los Angele...

LOS ANGELES - In last week's landmark death-penalty case, a federal jury sentenced two men to die for engineering a gruesome k...

Sacrifice by his migrant-farmworker parents helped Adolfo M. Corona ascend to the Fresno County Superior Court bench. ...

A high-rise building in a commercial area north of downtown San Diego poses a hazard to planes flying into a nearby airfield, ...

LOS ANGELES - As public officials celebrated approval of the massive $2 billion Grand Avenue Project downtown last week, court...

Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - One of the hardest questions in divorce proceedings is valuing a commu...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charlene P. Mitchell wants her courtroom to be a "place where people feel w...

On the Move

SAN DIEGO - The Tilt-Up Concrete Association honored Architects | Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker, a San Diego architectural d...

WASHINGTON - The unemployment lines grew longer last week, in part because of bad weather in the Midwest and Northeast, the go...

SAN DIEGO - The Carlsbad-based Golf & Resort Properties Group at CB Richard Ellis completed a record year in 2006, closing...

Prison overcrowding has reached a crisis point in California, and judges have to decide whether to allow inmates to be transfe...

Focus Column - By Shane Byrne and Jason Francl - Investments in developing markets abroad are attractive, but there is a lot t...

Forum Column - By Angelo A. Paparelli - The Bush administration has a lot on its plate, but it shouldn't lose sight of the opp...

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday named interim replacements for U.S. attorneys in San Francisco and San Diego, who were...

Verdicts and Settlements - Irell & Manella attorneys warded off a $94 million patent lawsuit on behalf of their client Tex...

SAN FRANCISCO - There was a day when the Oakland Housing Authority, facing a lawsuit from an angry tenant, could turn to the c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prisoner advocates are asking three federal judges to appoint judicial panels to oversee efforts to reduce the...

SANTA ANA - Maybe it was the Nancy Drew books, maybe it was the television show "Police Woman." Or maybe it was just the idea ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed N. Randy Smith for a judgeship on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thu...

LOS ANGELES - Supporters of an effort to curb the government's ability to seize private property through eminent domain went b...

SAN JOSE - The former general counsel of a New York-based recruitment services company on Thursday became the second attorney ...

Employment Column - By Carl L. Blumenstein - Under a federal statute set to take effect in July, group health plans can be a p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clovis-based mediator Douglas E. Noll is quite literally a peacemaker - educated by Mennonites in the art of r...

SANTA ANA - A men's-rights lawyer from San Diego does not have to pay $500,000 in legal fees to the Angels baseball team and a...

In a ruling hailed by plaintiffs' attorneys, the California Supreme Court held Thursday that smokers may bring lawsuits for il...