SAN FRANCISCO - The bankruptcy of Costa Mesa gunmaker Bryco Arms would seem to vindicate the gun industry advocates who say l...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clients suing lawyers for malpractice cannot recover for punitive damages lost because of the lawyer's allege...

Adviser Column - Employment Law - By Andrew Peterson - Imagine that you are general counsel for a large California corporation...

A Los Angeles refuge for wild and exotic animals filed a lawsuit May 19 claiming First Amendment violations. The Wildlife WayS...

Oakland's Meyers Nave represents 100 Northern California cities, counties and public agencies, many of them in the Bay Area. ...

Attorney Esteban Gallegos claimed greedy partners ousted him from a Los Angeles law firm two years ago so they could get a hig...

Amgen Inc. of Thousand Oaks has bought a minority stake in biotechnology company Tularik Inc. in connection with a new agreeme...

GCA Law Partners, the Mountain View firm that offers clients lower prices by employing no associates, has hired two of-counsel...

Joseph P. Costa, Alan Abrams and Charles M. Coate have formed Costa, Abrams & Coate. The Santa Monica-based entertainment ...

Adviser Column - Jury Selection - By Andrea Mosmann - During voir dire, a juror must speak in front of a large group of strang...

Attorney Anthony Pacheco suspected he was on to something when people started hanging up on him. He was making calls to ask ab...

The recording industry finally has come to accept Napster - or at least, the Napster brand name. Software maker Roxio Inc. of ...

In Closing Column - Legal Technology - By Sabina Bhalla and Sharon Jackson - Paperless litigation is slowly being accepted in ...

Expanding into a lucrative market, Tellabs Inc. has agreed to buy San Jose network switch maker Vivace Networks Inc. Illinois-...

Following a year of constant scrutiny and rumors about its dedication to its California offices, Minneapolis' Oppenheimer Wolf...

Facing tough competition from national chains, regional linen retailer Strouds is going out of business. Strouds Acquisition C...

REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo Superior Court Judge Rosemary Pfeiffer has an unusual passion: Family law. While many members of the ...

The scourge of spam is reaching epic proportions, according to some estimates. By next month, spam, unsolicited computer-gener...

By Tony R. Skogen California courts are experiencing a rapid growth in the number of administrative claims, individual lawsui...

In a deal reportedly worth a whopping $60 million, renowned songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller have sold music catalogs...

California's unfair-competition law has gotten a bad rap in recent months because of the highly publicized accounts of alleged...

Expanding its reach even farther around the world, New York law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy has acquired a Pri...

FONTANA - Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corp. leased a 102,100-square-foot industrial building at 10846 Commerce Way from Irvine-base...

Karen Frederiksen, formerly a media partner with Seattle's Davis Wright Tremaine, has joined the Walt Disney Co. as a litigato...

A Visalia farmworker who sued industry giant Farmers Insurance Co. for not providing coverage when he faced a personal injury ...

The United States Senate recently released transcripts of secret interrogations conducted 50 years ago by notorious Sen. Josep...

Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Thomas H. Clarke Jr. - On May 5, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Illinois v. Tele...