SAN FRANCISCO - Portland, Ore.-based Bullivant Houser Bailey has merged with Sacramento's Bartel Eng & Schroder, bringing...

LOS ANGELES - Glenn W. Trost, former managing partner of Coudert Brothers' Los Angeles office, has departed for a partner pos...

SAN FRANCISCO - A nationally known advocate for juvenile justice has left Columbia Legal Services in Seattle to join Oakland'...

SAN FRANCISCO - When she was appointed 10 years ago to the Monterey County bench at age 35, Superior Court Judge Marla O. Ande...

SAN FRANCISCO - The trustee representing the bankruptcy estate of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is trying to close another ...

LOS ANGELES - Frustrated by lack of progress in three years of settlement talks, lawyers for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of...

SAN DIEGO - By late afternoon, only two cases remained of the dozens that Superior Court Judge Charles G. Rogers had faced sev...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has refused to force Visa and MasterCard to immediately notify 264,000 customers that a...

Forum Column - By Pamela E. Dunn and Daniel J. Koes - Rare is it that a party gets punished for a trial-court victory. But tha...

Letter to the Editor - I write to correct some misleading insinuations in the article about the U.S. attorney's office and to ...

Henry Su is the latest partner to join Howrey Simon Arnold & White's intellectual property practice in Menlo Park. Su, who...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee may have convened Thursday to approve chief justice nominee John G. Roberts Jr., ...

SAN JOSE - Aaron Persky, a psychiatrist's son who was assigned last fall to be a judge in Santa Clara County's drug court, ha...

Forum Column - By Devallis Rutledge - It's been a hundred years since the Supreme Court created the federal exclusionary rule ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a San Francisco man can be convicted of three diffe...

LOS ANGELES - Richard Coleman jokingly calls himself a "recovering trial lawyer." But get the 70-year-old mediator talking, an...

LOS ANGELES - If you passed the bar in 1998 or later, Eliot Disner probably wants to represent you. Disner's behind of a pair...

LOS ANGELES -Federal prosecutors decided earlier this week not to seek the death penalty against four alleged gang members ac...

LOS ANGELES -MacLaren Children's Center, the home for abused and neglected children that was shuttered two years ago followin...

SACRAMENTO - The price of inaction is going up. Starting in 2006, inactive members of the California State Bar will see their...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Boyd D. Hudson and Robert A. Yahiro - Business owners frequently own real estate and other busines...

LOS ANGELES -A group of lawyers has joined forces with the American Red Cross to teach other lawyers and law students how to ...

OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO - In a joint venture, Lexington Corporate Properties Trust purchased a Class A office building in the Sou...

Employment Column - By Ruth Silver Taube - Congress enacted the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. Sec...

OFFICE PASADENA - Broadreach Capital Partners LLC purchased Pasadena Tech Center, a 231,000-square-foot office building at 46...

SAN FRANCISCO - It didn't take long for a lawsuit to catch up with Fremont police when a suspect died after repeated blasts fr...

Forum Column - By Richard Mac Bride - According to recent polls, a majority of Californians are worried about illegal immigrat...

Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Jeffrey M. Rawitz and Alexander Frid - Hardly a week passes without a news story about theft...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eleven companies that allegedly helped create one of California's oldest Superfund sites have agreed to pay m...

LOS ANGELES - Hoping to get a jump on insurance carriers who might deny Hurricane Katrina-related claims, lawyers have filed ...