By Liz Valsamis Richard Opper, Suzanne Varco and Linda Beresford have formed San Diego-based environmental law boutique Opper...

By Liz Valsamis After two years of struggling to make its merger with Century City's Klein & Martin work, Shaw Pittman is...

CHINO - HB Chino Roswell LLC, a partnership between Hanover Financial Co. and BR Birtcher Investments Inc. purchased the 214,...

By Joan Osterwalder With the movie "Seabiscuit" depicting the gritty work at the racetrack, attorney Kevin Lancaster hopes ju...

SAN FRANCISCO - A 24-year-old Guatemalan man who has lived in the United States all his life will lose the only country he's ...

Forum Column By Watson Branch The role of ideology in the selection and appointment of federal judges has gained widespread a...

Focus Column Litigation By Craig A. Pinedo In the companion cases of Kraus v. Trinity Management Services Inc. , 23 Cal.4th 1...

SAN FRANCISCO - The American Bar Association this week probably will come out against Pentagon restrictions on civilian defen...

VICTORVILLE - A high-desert man charged with kidnapping a school district official has accepted a plea agreement rather than ...

Computer chip maker Broadcom has agreed to pay its rival Intel $60 million as part of a settlement of long-running patent dis...

Reporter's Notebook By Erik Cummins SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutor Nicole Ward and criminal defense attorney Mike Daley were spar...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday turned back another bid to halt Gov. Gray Davis' recall election. ...

WASHINGTON - Beverly Hills civil rights attorney Leo Terrell has quit the NAACP after a dispute with the organization over hi...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's never too late to go back to school - even for a Supreme Court justice. Which might explain why Janice R...

SAN FRANCISCO - When does a lawyer's duty to society override his or her duties to a client? Delegates to the American Bar As...

RIVERSIDE - Brian Kritz, law books and mosquito repellent packed in his suitcase, is a man on a mission. He hopped on a plane...

WASHINGTON - In the wake of Attorney General John Ashcroft's mandate requiring prosecutors to report on federal judges who "d...

SACRAMENTO - Walk too fast through the plaza of the federal courthouse and you could almost miss them: a bear, two eagles, fo...

Focus Column Intellectual Property By John Carson, Eric Nelson and Nathaniel Durrance A patent portfolio can be the most effe...

Employment Column By Valerie A. Fontaine Making a good last impression in an interview is almost as important to making a goo...

LOS ANGELES - The petitioner and the respondent sat at the counsel table, clutching tattered folders filled with handwritten ...

Forum Column By Kenneth J. Theisen The U.S. military generally has been subject to environmental-protection laws that were en...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Thursday for courts to modify the sentences of juveniles who commit a...

SAN DIEGO - A former employee in the San Diego office of a foster-care agency was fired because she refused to overlook discr...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court announced Thursday that from now on it will reject habeas corpus pleadings filed by...

SANTA ANA - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday appointed a federal prosecutor, two attorneys and a commissioner to fill four vacanci...

SAN FRANCISCO - The lid is off campaign spending in the San Francisco district attorney's race, candidates said Thursday. Tha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Don't get U.S. District Judge William Alsup started on the recent, critical biography of Supreme Court Justic...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran trial lawyer Brian Lysaght is leaving the Santa Monica-based litigation boutique he founded in 1985 to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a dramatic move, the California Supreme Court refused Thursday to intervene in the recall election against...