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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Frustrated by a stalemate in contract negotiations, some 100 Northern California court interpreters are threat...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Italy owes Los Angeles one movie mogul. Sure, it may seem like that's the last thing this town need...

LOS ANGELES - The release of summaries of documents the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles kept on priests accused of ...

WASHINGTON - While some conservatives continue to criticize the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court, corp...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a constitutional challenge to California's determinate senten...

RETAIL SAN FRANCISCO - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler arranged a $50 million refinancing for a 148,832-square-foot, Class A retail ...

Focus Column - By Terri R. Brown - Can the terms of a private contract be retroactively altered by legislation? Yes. This fact...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - As we view the destruction left in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our heart...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Fillmore district was once one of the most vibrant jazz hubs west of Chicago. Those days are lo...