SAN FRANCISCO - Product-liability defense attorney Alicia Donahue has become the managing partner of Shook, Hardy & Bacon'...

SAN JOSE - A federal judge was skeptical but intrigued Friday by Google's attempt to get a legal battle over an executive who...

SAN FRANCISCO - For associate Daniel K. Yost, Kepler's Books and Magazines near his Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe office...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles are asking a judge to put on hold lawsuits two of its...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's crunch time for the consumer bankruptcy bar. Lawyers representing debtors scrambled last week to file ban...

DISBARMENTS Brown-Scarlett, Phyllis Eileen , Los Angeles Wright, Richard Lyle , Sacramento Tanana, Thomas Scott , San Diego RE...

INSTITUTIONAL LANCASTER - United Insurance Co. of America purchased the High Desert Medical Center at 43839 15th St. West for...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kenneth G. Hausman was impressed with the way JAMS' John B. Bates Jr. doggedly pursued resolution of a securit...

Forum Column - By Scott William Davenport - Parolee recidivism is both a very real concern and a well-documented problem. With...

Focus Column - By Mark Ivener - No big merger would ever be consummated without a comprehensive due diligence analysis. Yet wh...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - When Cambria attorney Arther R. Montandon recently attended a fundraiser for the local Montessori school, he...

Employment Column - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Russell A. Wetanson - Bad guys sometimes do finish last. For years, defense at...

LOS ANGELES - A recent appellate opinion has clarified the duty of loyalty among business partners. The 6th District Court of ...

LOS ANGELES - Santa Barbara prosecutor Ronald J. Zonen was "enthusiastic" about a movie project based on the killing of West ...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the opening day of a sensational Contra Costa County murder case, the judge took the jury, lawyers, courtro...

RIVERSIDE - Bill Mitchell has a reputation for winning tough cases. A lot of them. In one, the Riverside County supervising de...

LOS ANGELES - Mass cremation of bodies donated for anatomical research at UCLA was not improper under state law, the 2nd Distr...

LOS ANGELES - Bankruptcy courts across the country are staying open Saturday and Sunday to accept last-minute filings before a...

LOS ANGELES - Anti-affirmative action activists sued the Los Angeles Unified School District to end the last vestiges of inte...

SUSPENSIONS Sanchez, Benjamin , Bonita Walker, Conrad George , San Diego White, Stanley Ziegler , Beverly Hills INTERIM SUSPEN...

SACRAMENTO - Quin A. Denvir, the veteran federal public defender who represented so-called Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski and c...

SACRAMENTO - Nobody accuses the governor's top legal adviser of committing a crime when he tried to rescue a controversial ba...

INDUSTRIAL SAN FRANCISCO - AMB Property Corp. bought AMB Spruce Avenue, a 560,000-square-foot bulk warehouse, for $66.5 millio...

Focus Column - By Alan M. Ahart - On April 20, President Bush signed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection A...

Forum Column - By Susan E. Seager - The state Court of Appeal recently scolded an Orange County trial court for allowing a pol...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a combination that will create one of the nation's largest insurance practices, Philadelphia-based Duane Mo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Archdiocese has agreed to pay $2.6 million on the eve of trial to settle two lawsuits filed...

LOS ANGELES - Jewish bus operators working for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority will have an easi...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has denied a request to use as evidence a polygraph test administered privately to Doug Dowie, ...

LOS ANGELES - A class action to recover unpaid life insurance proceeds on behalf of heirs of Armenians allegedly wiped out by ...