Column By Garry Abrams - During a press conference last week, I made bets with myself about when, not if, New Jersey boxing pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's said April is the cruelest month. But for California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, a frequen...

SAN FRANCISCO - A city that was not equipped to offer protective custody to a public drunk cannot be sued for his injuries af...

SAN FRANCISCO - The American Arbitration Association, one of the country's largest arbitration providers, has suffered an emb...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has been removed from Southern California's clergy sexual-abuse litigation af...

Disability insurer UnumProvident Corp. won't have to pay $31.7 million to a Navato eye surgeon after all. A Marin County Super...

Margo Bradish left Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison Dec. 31, 1 1/2 months before the firm collapsed. Despite the timing of the ...

Column - Trial Practice - By David G. Epstein - Motions in limine and Evidence Code Section 402 hearings on scientific evidenc...

By Toni Vranjes San Francisco's UnionBanCal Corp. has agreed to buy Monterey Bay Bancorp Inc. for $96.5 million in cash and st...

The recent deluge of corporate-reform proposals continues, with one of the latest taking aim at the big payouts received by ex...

California law schools took 10 of the top 100 spots on U.S.News & World Report's annual ranking of the country's best law ...

After looking for a practice better-suited to his own needs, Frank Schwertfeger has left Greenberg Traurig to join Santa Monic...

Making a marriage work between two law firms is hard enough, but it seems these days that just getting to the wedding is provi...

The U.S. savings and loan scandals of the late 1980s and early 1990s are history, having made way for the Enron era of corpora...

Boston Scientific Corp. and RITA Medical Systems Inc. have reached a settlement of all patent disputes between the companies. ...

After the recent birth of his second child, litigation associate Timothy Wendling probably thinks he could've been a doctor ju...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Ralph Baxter is always on the climb - whether he's pushing firm profits up the charts, as...

Increasingly, lawyers are leaving large law firms in order to lower their rates in response to client demand. In February, fou...

Carolyn Hunt has left the Los Angeles office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld for the opportunity to become a partner ...

A recent Alameda County Superior Court decision forces Visa and MasterCard to disclose a 1 percent foreign currency exchange f...

Leaving her partners at Thelen Reid & Priest was like "growing up and leaving home," says Allison Davis. The San Francisco...

A new housing development in San Francisco is one step closer to becoming reality. Attorneys have closed the equity financing ...

In Closing Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - If your law firm is like others, you have probably purchased separate soft...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has invalidated a patent held by an Australian nature photographer for a Panavision-produced ca...

Pillsbury Winthrop's hiring spree continues apace with recent additions to its Silicon Valley and Houston offices. On March 31...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting punitive damages is causing a debate among California lawyers. Defense attorneys claim ...

Thanks to a Supreme Court decision that came down Tuesday, two Korean banks in a separate case could find themselves back in a...

U.S. travel agents hope to right their nose-diving businesses by suing 21 major airlines for cutting off their commissions. ...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Gregg A. Farley and Paul C. White II - The state Supreme Court recently handed down a decision th...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Bad aim never has been a defense to murder. Under the doctrine of transf...