SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward has snagged credit finance attorney John Hale from DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary. Hale, who star...

SACRAMENTO - A state senator said Monday she has introduced a bill to lift the 10-year statute of limitations on rape so that ...

Column - By Garry Abrams - It's a trial. No, it's a circus. No, it's a train wreck. OK, it's a circus train wreck in a courtho...

LOS ANGELES - Convicted Caltech whiz kid William "Billy" Cottrell joked in a taped jailhouse telephone call to his mother tha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty-four World War II concentration camp survivors will get another chance to prove that the Vatican Bank ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Employees of the defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison cannot pursue allegations that Morgan, Lewis & B...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Supreme Court justices Monday appeared inclined to strike down the tough California rule that can protect p...

Duane Morris may be based in Philadelphia, but intrastate rival Buchanan Ingersoll wasn't feeling the brotherly love in San Di...

After seven years at Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers, patent litigator Bill J. O'Brien jumped to 92-lawyer Alschuler Grossm...

The divorce of the Walt Disney Co. and Miramax creators Bob and Harvey Weinstein, whose groundbreaking film company spawned aw...

For the third time this year, the San Diego office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker lost a group of intellectual prope...

Among the glitzy boutiques of Beverly Hills' world-famous Rodeo Drive shopping district sits David Orgell, purveyor of jewelry...

San Jose-based video-game company Immersion received an eye-opening power-up from a federal court in Oakland, which ordered en...

Being chosen for a top-10 list is usually a compliment. But two candidates for seats on the Hollister City Council didn't feel...

SAN FRANCISCO - A long line of judges, court administrators, sheriff's deputies, litigants and disabled people testified to wo...

Dominique Shelton says it's no surprise to her that college classmate and longtime friend of 20 years, Nawal Nour would have b...

Two attorneys from different sections of the legal world will get an opportunity to bring their unique perspectives, skills an...

Sunnyvale technology company Finisar slapped El Segundo-based DirecTV with a potentially huge patent infringement lawsuit in T...

Credited as Hollywood's first major venue for plays and films, the El Capitan Theatre has screened movies and other shows for ...

Entertainment attorney Alan U. Schwartz launched into cinematic history when his longtime client, director Mel Brooks, include...

LOS ANGELES - Courtesy is often court's casualty. That's why some defense attorneys take notice when Los Angeles Superior Cour...

Paul Escobosa, a partner with Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, recently helped two Mexican immigrants open a downtown San Fr...

Kenneth Cloke is in it for the magic. The veteran mediator, arbitrator, law professor, speaker and author sees his job as bein...

Los Angeles' Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith blew into the windy city this month with the acquisition of Chicago-based W...

Thirty-two years after her brother's death, Zita Cabello-Barrueto says she has seen his alleged murderer brought to justice an...

When corporate transactions partner Mark Wicker told his colleagues he was leaving DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's North County ...

ChevronTexaco Corp. trampled over its competition to snap up smaller California rival Unocal Corp. for $16 billion, pocketing ...

Closer - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Gene Moscovitch - Hybrid cases that allege significant civil damages but take pla...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Rosen - "No Jewish person can sit on a death penalty jury and vote for death." Thus spake an Alam...

SAN FRANCISCO - There is no Kelly Blue Book by which to calculate the value of religious faith, a plaintiffs lawyer told juror...