Lsan Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has launched an insolvency and bankruptcy practice in its San Diego offic...

The end of April brought a summary judgment ruling in the Redlands water contamination saga, but it likely won't be the end of...

Rachel Krevans was afraid the law school she applied to in 1983 would ask her why she wanted to be a lawyer. "I had no idea," ...

An animal-rights group dedicated to protecting kangaroos is hopping mad with Adidas for its use of the marsupial's skin to mak...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired California Associate Justice David Eagleson, who helped usher in a new era of conservatism on the Supr...

Lawyers view themselves as trusted counselors to their clients, with the communication between them protected by the sacred at...

A Los Angeles judge soon will decide the fate of a parcel of land in Koreatown that is owned by a church but has been taken ov...

It isn't often a job like this comes around. Morrison & Foerster had lost its key ERISA partner, Irvine's Ellen Marshall, ...

Tomlinson Zisko added Heather Meeker, 43, as special counsel to the firm's intellectual property protection and licensing grou...

Conjure an image of Oakland, and you're bound to think of an industrial port, a high crime rate, maybe even raucous Raiders fa...

Ramsey Hanna has left Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to become a partner with Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossma...

Thomas W. Kellerman, formerly managing partner of the European joint venture of Brobeck Hale and Dorr in London, has joined Mo...

After 15 years with the Irvine office of Morrison & Foerster, William Grenner has joined the Santa Ana office of Michelman...

Fenwick & West Chairman Gordon K. Davidson has high expectations for Mark C. Stevens, who is returning to the firm's corpo...

In Closing Column - Litigation Technology - By David Hunter - The age of courtroom technology is here to stay, and it's changi...

Leonard Venger has joined Sony Pictures Entertainment as executive vice president of litigation. Venger was a partner with Los...

In the hustle and bustle of the days that followed his firm's collapse, Steven Kaufhold followed a group of 50 Brobeck, Phlege...

Adviser Column - ADR - By Alexander S. Polsky - You are a hardworking attorney. Suddenly you receive notice that you are in a ...

Two Los Angeles banks are combining to create the largest Asian-American bank in the United States. Cathay Bancorp Inc. plans ...

MODESTO - Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Roger M. Beauchesne is widely considered the most patient judge on the local ...

Forum Column - By Gregory R. Smith, Kyhm Penfil and Ornah Medovoi - The Nazi butchery of innocents was about more than the ext...

Forum Column - By John F. Niblock - Over the past several years, California has pursued its own foreign policy by enacting leg...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - The application of Proposition 36 often means that a defendant will get t...

LOS ANGELES - The suspension of three Southern California lawyers who were accused of filing frivolous lawsuits to extort mone...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Senate has voted to create five new federal district-court judgeships in California. The measure, spons...

SAN JOSE - An influx of federal grant money will allow the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office to avoid laying off a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento state appellate court has ruled that a sex offender who says he forgot to register with police on...

Column By Garry Abrams - For the sake of argument, let's assume that Tony Soprano, the angst-ridden psychiatric patient and Ma...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Contra Costa County Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, who was removed for his abrasive style on the bench, has a...

RIVERSIDE - Virginia Blumenthal has received many compliments since she expanded her criminal-defense firm to include all fema...