SAN JOSE - A Minnesota company is trying to lift the veil on the identity of an individual who it claims revealed its trade se...
SAN JOSE - A federal judge has put Rambus Inc., a Los Altos-based company that licenses its patents to semiconductor memory ch...
SAN FRANCISCO - In Oakland, a city of 400,000 people, there are more than 900 places to buy alcohol.
Forum Column - We all live in Justice Anthony Kennedy's world now, at least those of us who practice environmental law. ...
Criminal
Racial Bias Not Factor in U.S. Seeking Death Penalty, Rand Study Finds
By John Hanusz
LOS ANGELES - Race played no part in federal prosecutors' decisions to seek the death penalty in the Clinton administration's ...
Environmental
'Rapanos' Wetlands Decision Doesn't Void State Regulations
By David Minkown
Focus Column - Approximately one month ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in the consolidated cases of Rapanos v. ...
LOS ANGELES - For the first time in a long time, plaintiffs' and defense lawyers in the securities bar found a decision they b...
LOS ANGELES - After producing NFL starts such as Dante Hall and Quentin "Q" Griffin from a tiny town in Texas, high-school foo...
Government
DA Considers Reviving Plan to Break Up L.A. Central Criminal Court
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley is considering resurrecting his proposal to break up the state...
WASHINGTON - The court conservatives love to hate will take center stage in Congress later this week.
SAN FRANCISCO - Winston & Strawn's San Francisco office reeled in yet another big catch last week, adding a prominent tax ...
SANTA ANA - One of the state's most prolific filers of suits alleging violations of handicap-access laws has lost at trial and...
Judges and Judiciary
S.F. Hall of Justice Caught With Its Guard Down
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - The secret that everyone knew and joked about is out: San Francisco's Hall of Justice is one insecure building.
LOS ANGELES - The Palo Alto-based law firm Cooley Godward is in merger talks with Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan, a 90-a...
LOS ANGELES - As the deputy city attorney whose job is improving everyday life in the 14 square miles making up the Los Angele...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the weeks ahead, a Contra Costa jury will decide whether 17-year-old Scott Dyleski is a troubled young man ...
LOS ANGELES - Some lawyers prepare for retirement by purchasing sailboats or houses in Hawaii. Roy Wuchitech spent the last th...
Law Practice
Securities Litigator Jumps at Chance to Join Jones Day
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Gidon M. Caine attended a Jones Day partnership retreat at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel last month while th...
Focus Column - On public-policy grounds, the California Supreme Court confirmed the right of consumers to file putative classw...
On the Move - Seyfarth Shaw has added David B. Roseman and Mark Mengelberg as partners to the firm's San Francisco office.
Forum Column - Beginning in 1994, California began a crackdown on juvenile crime. The age at which juvenile offenders could be...
SAN FRANCISCO - Court-appointed appellate counsel representing indigent defendants in criminal and juvenile cases will get a $...
SAN FRANCISCO - Following months of frustration trying to get a global compensation practice off the ground at a national law ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Gun Control 13 Years After Law Firm Massacre
By David Minkown
Forum Column - Approximately 13 years have passed since the Bay Area legal community was shaken by an assault-weapon massacre ...
SACRAMENTO - The race for California attorney general has taken a new twist with tort reformers pushing to weed out "activist"...
Judges and Judiciary
Trial Judges, AOC Search for Common Ground on Training
By Savannah Blackwelln
SAN FRANCISCO - George Abdallah says he did not expect to detonate a political bomb this spring when he, with other members of...
Large Firms
Estate Lawyer Reunites With O'Melveny Colleagues at Loeb
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - By joining Loeb & Loeb as a partner earlier this month, attorney Regina I. "Ginger" Covitt reunited with her...
International
Federal Court Says Nations Waive Immunity in Patent Negotiations
By Anna Oberthurn
Foreign nations that have engaged in patent licensing negotiations in the United States waive their sovereign immunity and can...
LOS ANGELES - Fifty-five miles north of downtown, amid scrub and Joshua trees, gleams the Michael D. Antonovich Antelope Valle...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Electronic Frontier Foundation and civil liberties groups around the country are in an uproar over legisla...