WASHINGTON - A new survey shows that 65 percent of American adults cannot name even one Supreme Court justice, and less than 1...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer drafting a will has no duty to beneficiaries to check on the mental capacity of the client, a unanimo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two retired San Francisco judges and a staff attorney with the Judicial Council have emerged as candidates for...
LOS ANGELES - After seven straight months of flat sales, Abercrombie & Fitch stripped some of its employees down to their ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Malcolm Wittenberg, the former patent attorney at Crosby Heafey Roach & May who admitted to insider tradin...
Any competitor or aspiring star who plans to appear on a reality television show will have to agree to all kinds of abuse for ...
The creditors' committee in the Magnatrax Corp. Chapter 11 bankruptcy case has selected Foley & Lardner as legal adviser. ...
Although he's the second partner to leave Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in as many days, Marty Myers hasn't seen any kind o...
With its high-level partners flying to New York each week, the buzz surrounding Cooley Godward doesn't focus on whether the Pa...
In a single acquisition, Philadelphia's Duane Morris has added a San Diego office and picked up a reinsurance practice group. ...
Joining Morrison & Foerster opened up a whole world of possibilities for William Veatch. In his first week at the 1,000-la...
Two more lawyers from Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly's Palo Alto office, which closed in May, have found homes with Alexandr...
Theater aficionados don't want the curtain to fall at the Raymond Theatre in Pasadena and are taking their legal battle to sto...
Handheld computer maker Palm Inc. of Milpitas has signed a deal to buy its rival Handspring Inc. for $170 million in stock. ...
Column - Public Relations - By John J. Buchanan - With corporate scandals, terrorism and economic chaos appearing in the headl...
Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeff Kichaven and Deborah Rothman - Question: In the real world of litigated case...
Natalie Pierce first met Angela Bradstreet last year when Bradstreet, a partner at Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, spoke at ...
Realizing the job of running its Northern California offices was too big for any one partner, Coudert Brothers Chairman David ...
Milwaukee beer maker Miller Brewing Co. has signed a $143 million agreement to outsource its information technology to Affilia...
Guy Maisnik, formerly of Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, has joined the real estate department of Jeffer, ...
In an effort to broaden the scope of their charitable activities, Hospice of Marin and Hospice By The Bay have united. Hospice...
Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, known for its class-action securities suits on behalf of shareholders, shook up the ...
Litigation
Medical Exams of Plaintiffs Require Lawyers' Wariness
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Column - Trial Strategy - By Martin Blake - The recent decision in Golfland Entertainment Centers Inc. v. Superior Court of...
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton firm withdrew last month from defending a wrongful-termination suit after a judge rule...
Armed with little more than artistic vision, independent film producers sometimes flounder through the legal complications of ...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Prosecutors have powerful tools, such as wiretaps and search warrants, t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Donald S. Mitchell is interested in nearly everything. A 90-minute conversation with him moves from Nort...
Forum Column - By Robert DeKoven - School officials have lamented for years that they have to put up with many "discipline" pr...
Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - In the past, managers arrived at a workplace investigation like a coroner at a crime scen...
SAN FRANCISCO - Patrons of the San Francisco Law Library's downtown branch will have to trek to the library's two Civic Center...