SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has rejected as "frivolous" the state's request for immunity for a handful of San Quentin pri...

MARTINEZ - The woman was near tears telling Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Theresa J. Canepa why she missed a court date. ...

By Jed Horowitz Bloomberg News Timber Hill LLC, the world's biggest options market-maker, will close its 10-person trading op...

Column Law Practice By Karen Kaplowitz To the 3,848 new lawyers who just earned their California bar numbers, welcome to the ...

By Toni Vranjes For the third time this year, San Jose networking company Cisco Systems Inc. has asked San Francisco Fenwick ...

By Toni Vranjes Two San Jose technology companies called on Silicon Valley attorneys to help make their November initial publ...

By Stefanie Knapp When the new California Civil Jury Instructions became effective in September, many lauded the rephrasings ...

COLTON - Washington Plaza Partners sold Washington Office Plaza for $7.9 million to Drawbridge Properties LLC , which complet...

Column Trial Practice By Robert S. Blumberg While attorneys and judges may spend a lot of time contemplating the nuances of a...

By Amy K. Spees Two former Computer Science Corp. employees last month filed a pioneering wage-and-hour suit in federal court...

POLITICS By Marc Humbert Associated Press Writer New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been going back and forth to Was...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda The Black Historical Society of San Diego is fighting to protect five downtown buildings that a developmen...

With fewer judges entering ADR now than a few years ago, providers are fighting to ink the best and brightest to exclusive con...

By Amy K. Spees The Los Angeles Unified School District will have to pay $22 million for a South Los Angeles parking lot the ...

Mark A. Weiss Superior Court Commissioner Los Angeles (Van Nuys) Career highlights: Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner, ...

THOUSAND OAKS - The law firm Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava & MacCuish represented the landlord, Arbur-Thousand Oa...

By Claude Walbert Voters from the 7,000-member San Diego County Bar Association have elected five directors for the 2004-06 t...

By Robin Davidson Jokes about California's newly elected governor and shots at the Bush administration's war in Iraq were com...

By Amy K. Spees Los Angeles Police Commissioner Silvia Saucedo has joined the ranks of associates at business and real estate...

By Claude Walbert Superior Court Judge James P. Gray has taken an unpaid leave of absence from the Orange County bench to cam...

By Toni Vranjes Costa Mesa's Emulex Corp. recently enlisted the help of Palo Alto partner Gregory Smith to complete its $310 ...

Column Corporate Law By John J. Selbak In the late 1990s, many large firms increased their billing rates to more than $500 an...

RIVERSIDE - When retired Riverside Judge Victor Miceli took a walk through the city's oldest cemetery last year, he was disgu...

By Liz Valsamis San Francisco's Gordon & Rees has picked up all five attorneys from intellectual property boutique Brown ...

Focus Column Insurance Law By Mary Craig Calkins Policyholders pay high premiums to insurers to protect against losses. The p...

Forum Column By Shelton M. Vaughan Opponents of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act recognize that they have lost their case i...

SAN BERNARDINO - Services have been held for Ralph Harry Prince, who served as city attorney of San Bernardino for 28 years. ...

LOS ANGELES - In his day job, John Monaghan is a Los Angeles deputy district attorney, whose confrontations with bad guys are...

MADERA - Superior Court Judge Edward P. Moffat didn't earn the nickname "Fast Eddie" for nothing. The 57-year-old jurist hear...

By Stefanie Knapp The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund celebrated its 35th anniversary in style with a bla...