SAN FRANCISCO - Advanced Micro Devices' proposed $5.4 billion acquisition of leading graphics chip maker ATI Technologies is a...

LOS ANGELES - Summer's well under way, and so is the baseball season. For Major League Baseball fans that means hot dogs, cott...

SAN DIEGO - Opening a new front in its fight for religious causes, a conservative legal coalition has sued California's state ...

LOS ANGELES - Michael Allen had few dealings with legal search companies as a practicing attorney, but they were enough to con...

Focus Column - Anita S. Anderson, an obscure California homeowner, may have a surprising, profound - even revolutionary - effe...

Letter to the Editor - I sympathize with the argument in the recent column by Andrea Lafferty, director of the Traditional Val...

Deciding the fate of lawsuits filed before the state's voters reined in the Unfair Competition Law two years ago, the Californ...

WASHINGTON - When a new crop of students enters Stanford Law School's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic this fall, they'll learn...

Focus Column - Cases implicating federal conflicts of authority in May 2006 centered around two distinct and unrelated themes:...

SAN RAFAEL - The first thing Foley & Lardner partner Teveia R. Barnes did before sitting down to be interviewed by Ramona ...

LOS ANGELES - After working for four years in Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe's San Francisco office, prominent litigator Gr...

Forum Column - Jeremy Blachman launched his writing career two years ago with a Web log called "Anonymous Lawyer," which quick...

On the Move - Christopher J. Kelly, Thomas N. Lawson and Mark A. Streams have become partners at Loeb & Loeb in Los Angeles.

Forum Column - What happens when an insurer defending an insured under reservation of rights refuses to participate meaningful...

SAN FRANCISCO - Maria Anastas, most recently a partner at national labor and employment boutique Jackson Lewis, joined Davis W...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has named Robert Anderson, a 33-year Justice Department veteran and the head of its...

SAN FRANCISCO - A class action by Marriott hotel workers seeking to enforce San Francisco's minimum-wage law has been settled,...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 22 voting members of the executive committee of the Los Angeles County Superior Court unanimously passed a...

Immigration is increasingly grabbing headlines across the U.S. Judges, attorneys and advocates for both tighter borders and mo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Once again, state officials and environmentalists have raised the alarm that Republicans in Congress are movin...

WASHINGTON - An American Bar Association task force will scold President Bush today for using presidential signing statements ...

LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Conner is returning to the law to head Dickstein Shapiro's entertainment law practice.

SAN FRANCISCO - As rockets allegedly supplied by Iran rained on Israel from Hezbollah positions in Lebanon this week, veteran ...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors brought criminal charges Thursday for the first time stemming from highly publicized accusat...

MURRIETA - In an unusual move and over the objections of the prosecution, a Riverside County Superior Court judge has reduced ...

Forum Column - Our Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, has stated publicly that he believes journalists may be prosecuted unde...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco geriatrician John Fullerton belongs to more than 20 medical societies at the state and national le...

SAN FRANCISCO - A freelance journalist was fighting to stay out of jail Thursday in front of a skeptical federal judge who is ...

Do arbitrators tend to favor defense counsel? How does the public feel about private judging? And do lawyers know the differen...

LOS ANGELES - The secretary to prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer Pierce O'Donnell was fined $41,000 by the City Ethics Commis...