Myra Pasek spent 2-1/2 years in charge of litigation at Santa Clara's Affymetrix Inc. Managing patent disputes over the firm's...

The legal battle between two of the biggest stars in the amateur telescope universe rages on. In 2001, Meade Instruments Corp....

A week after closing offices in Palo Alto and Newport Beach, the partners at Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly were still cons...

Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has lured a big shot intellectual property lawyer to its offices there...

RAINMAKERS - The economy on the rebound? At the very least business must be good for California law firms. According to our so...

When Kenneth Chiate graduated from Columbia Law School in 1966, he was sure he'd spend the rest of his career with the same gr...

San Diego's Bacalski, Byrne, Koska & Ottoson has added a veteran litigator to its ranks. Bruce Bailey joined last month fr...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Joseph L. Beachboard - In an important decision for professional corporations and many othe...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Randy L. Turtle - A 2001 newspaper article disclosed a surprising and disturbing fact: Evidence...

Forum Column - By Bill Lockyer - Deputy Attorney General Joel Davis' recent column entitled "Improper Fidelities: Attorney Gen...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The United States is about to embark on the largest post-war reconstruction project since ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Noting he has been disciplined twice for similar misconduct, a panel of special masters has found that Alameda...

LOS ANGELES - Duane Morris has scooped up a dozen insurance coverage lawyers from San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Sc...

OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court plans to roll out two filing innovations that will make it easier for litigants to get...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Lichtman has announced plans to run for assistant presiding judge for 200...

SAN FRANCISCO - A special Judicial Council panel has given its approval to easing the strict "fast track" rules that govern th...

SAN FRANCISCO - A husband who intended that his sperm be used by a fertility clinic to create embryos to impregnate his wife i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal trial judges now face what one senator has called a "judicial blacklist" created by Congress if they i...

MARTINEZ - During her nearly 20 years on the bench in Contra Costa County, Superior Court Judge Barbara Ziga has juggled high-...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Annual profits per partner are seen widely as the measuring stick for law-firm su...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael D. Singer - Class-action counsel now may communicate freely with proposed class members...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Next year's Pentagon budget will be $400 billion. While the Pentagon will be spending t...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney who was disqualified from defending Rubio's Baja Grill after he told a judge that he represented bot...

LOS ANGELES - A district attorney's investigator testified Thursday that he relied heavily on investigative reports prepared b...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has hired intellectual property rainmaker Claude M. Ster...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for three San Francisco police officers indicted for assault in connection with a Union Street braw...

LOS ANGELES - The 2 nd District Court of Appeal Thursday upheld a $5.1 million verdict against Nestle USA Inc., that the compa...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - There are now a dozen other court buildings in Alameda County, but the Oakland Ren C....

SAN FRANCISCO - A Menlo Park medical device company pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 criminal counts of failing to report malfun...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn joined with activists and officials from federal and local governments Thursday ...