Forum Column - By Richard A. Shortz - A critical piece of energy legislation, HR6, again has been circulating in Washington. L...

Forum Column - By Jim Jenal - Imagine this: The phone rings, the general counsel of your best client is on the line and she's ...

Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - The scope of the protection afforded by the litigation privilege set fort...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will decide whether the federal government must release to a Santa Cla...

SANTA ROSA - Leslie Caldwell, leader of the team of federal prosecutors investigating Enron, said over the weekend that she ex...

SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley venture capitalists have not been having the best of times lately. Seed funding for technology ...

RICHMOND - A dozen Richmond residents commemorated Cinco de Mayo on Monday by filing a $1.7 million police-abuse lawsuit in fe...

LOS ANGELES - In two rulings that a civil rights attorney said could affect hundreds of other civil rights cases, a federal ju...

Column By Garry Abrams - The Winnie the Pooh royalty case exploded with verbal pyrotechnics Monday in the seventh-floor hallwa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists are cheering a ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who has held that an enclosed po...

LOS ANGELES - Over the past 21/2 months, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury has heard graphic allegations of sexual harassment ...

SANTA ROSA - Chief U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel told lawyers gathered for the Northern California judges' conference...

SAN FRANCISCO - The scenario by now is familiar: Three off-duty, rookie police officers - including Alex Fagan Jr., the son of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Telemarketers for charities are free to keep most of the donations they solicit, but if they lie about it they...

SAN DIEGO - Presiding Judge Richard E.L. Strauss speaks passionately about the growing isolation of judges and the evolving co...

Now that my trademark application is on file, can I use the (r) symbol on my packaging and advertisements? Should we use the (...

Dallas' Jenkens & Gilchrist has hired Gary Samson to handle financing matters for firm client Bank of America. Samson, who...

Jack Johal was the first tax lawyer to join Neumiller & Beardslee, Stockton's largest law firm. When Johal took his practi...

Richard M. Cieri has settled into his new job as chair of the business restructuring and reorganization practice at Gibson, Du...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's September 2001 announcement that it was moving most of the firm's support services to a g...

Dean Hansell arrived in American Samoa with boxes of law books for legal research, exhibits, several copies each of motions an...

San Diego's Leap Wireless International Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 relief, swelling the ranks of bankrupt telecommunication...

Construction-materials company Hanson is building a bigger business. The London company has agreed to buy Better Materials Cor...

Leticia Mendez and Robert Torres met in flight school at Glendale Community College in the summer of 2000. They dated for a ye...

Investors have pumped $10 million into Arzoon Inc., a manufacturer of trade and transportation software. New investors Redrock...

Daniel Nixon still is getting used to the view from the 39th floor of his Bunker Hill office building. From his perch, Nixon c...

In a recent trial in Los Angeles, jurors literally fell asleep until the defense presented a spectacular multimedia demonstrat...

A seven-decade water rights dispute may have reached an end with a tentative settlement between three Southern California wate...

Bob Dobalina broke up with his girlfriend, Alison Smithers, recently at a local high school. Smithers was quite crushed, but D...

It's a tough time to be an in-house lawyer. A new survey has found that strict new corporate-reform laws and the high costs of...