Column - By Garry Abrams - Legally speaking, who's tougher, the New York Mafia or the Los Angeles power elite? ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China's leading semiconductor manufacturer, will pay Taiwan ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The sole black woman on the California Supreme Court said Monday that the court may have erred 20 years ago w...

Morrison & Foerster's securities litigation practice got a boost this month with the acquisition of Sean Prosser and Kimbe...

When Rob Feldman and Keiko Johnson launched Juris Productions in 2002, they staked their experience as KNBC-TV news producers ...

And the Winner Is... Pharmaceutical companies didn't grab all the big defense verdicts in 2004. From obtaining the only win a...

After three years of fighting for the civil rights of girls and women as a staff attorney at the California Women's Law Center...

SACRAMENTO - Taking aim at the critics who have ruled him out of the 2006 race for California attorney general, state Sen. Jo...

Five litigators from San Francisco's C.W. Wood & Associates have joined McKenna Long & Aldridge. Steering the group is...

After spending 11/2 years at the attorney general's office in Los Angeles, Kate Kenealy says the stellar reputation of litigat...

An African-American shopper says she's speaking out against retail discrimination to prevent it from taking others by surprise...

EXTRA Closer Column - LAW FIRM MANAGEMENT - By Robert W. Cullen - Whether a corporate client hires a lawyer for litigation or ...

Sid Israels, a longtime Central Valley transactional and real estate attorney, has joined Oakland's Wendel, Rosen, Black &...

More than a year after his death, millionaire Stanley Yager's family found themselves in a courtroom brawl over two wills and ...

INDUSTRIAL SANTA FE SPRINGS - L.A.R.D. Investments LP purchased a 106,993-square-foot industrial building located at 13635 Fr...

Forum Column - By Mark Ridley-Thomas - Congratulations to new homeowners in this New Year. It is truly a triumph that homeowne...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert P. Andris - At the end of the liability phase in most patent-infringement tri...

Forum Column - By James D. Nguyen - This month, we celebrate the one-year anniversary of Janet Jackson's infamous breast-beari...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council approved a $450,000 settlement with a gay LAPD officer who claims he was harassed a...

EXTRA Feature - By Eron Ben-Yehuda - In many ways, Michael Tyus is the worst nightmare for Merck & Co. The pharmaceutical ...

WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association is trying to make it easier for judges and judicial candidates to know what they can...

SAN FRANCISCO - The people who crowd the court of Contra Costa County Superior Court Commissioner Lowell Richards tell tales ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors say former McKesson Corp. executive Richard Hawkins took part in a scheme to inflate sale...

LOS ANGELES - In a rare move, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge has freed a man facing capital charges for gunning d...

LOS ANGELES - Friends and colleagues know him as the master storyteller who keeps them laughing. The chocolate lovers who work...

LOS ANGELES - Victims of the deadly commuter train disaster last week could have a hard time holding Metrolink or surrounding ...

LOS ANGELES - In 1930, Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted presented officials with a map showing a green Los Angeles ...

INDUSTRIAL CARLSBAD - THQ Inc. signed a five-year, $629,100 lease for 9,412 square feet of research-and-development space in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a fleeing suspect whose reckless driving kills a bystander c...

SAN JOSE - The defense attorney in the politically charged manslaughter proceedings against a state drug agent who shot to de...