Australian bank Macquarie Infrastructure Group has acquired a majority stake in a company that is developing a San Diego toll ...

Adviser Column - By Michael Solender - With the Aas decision decreeing that consequential damages to other construction elemen...

A rare lawsuit borne of an embryo mix-up at a San Francisco fertility clinic is about to face its first court challenge, with ...

An ultra-hip West Hollywood club and an upscale, yet trendy, restaurant in San Francisco's Mission District were the meeting p...

Veteran Bay Area lawyers often express surprise when told that San Francisco's Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold is no long...

SANTA ANA - Services took place Friday and Saturday for Fullerton estate and tax attorney Allen Courtenay Clarke. Clarke, know...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prisoner James H. Edwards, who walked with the aid of a prosthetic leg, begged prison guards not to put ...

For three quarters of a century, the State Bar has gathered its members at an annual meeting to attend seminars, see old frien...

SAN FRANCISCO - Is John Larson calling on an old friend to rescue Brobeck Phleger & Harrison? Brobeck is in parallel merge...

James E. Herman - lawyer for banks, president-elect of the State Bar, co-founder of the Santa Barbara opera society - hunkers ...

Focus Column - By Daniel Lee Jacobson and Georgia M. Linkletter - California's Business and Professions Code is unforgiving to...

Forum Column - By Chiori Kaneko - Gov. Gray Davis signed a law last month that will have a terrible impact on victims of domes...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tired of watching Judge Judy weekday mornings? Tuesday, daytime TV viewers from Bakersfield to Chico can tune ...

LOS ANGELES - The battered 21-year-old wife did everything right: She had her husband arrested, fled with her 6-year-old son t...

LOS ANGELES - Once we were the "Prozac Nation," lining up to be saved by a revolutionary group of antidepressants that was sai...

SAN BERNARDINO - Lawyers for Kevin Cooper, a death-row inmate recently pegged by DNA results in the brutal killings of a famil...

Focus Column - By Mitchell S. Shapiro - The allocation of attorney fees in antitrust cases is of considerable interest to the ...

Forum Column - By Robert Feinstein - They say there are two things you should never watch being made: sausage and legislation....

LOS ANGELES - They're lawyers, they're in Century City, and their names sound exactly the same. A single "c" separates the two...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Richard F. Dole has died at his Telegraph Hill home, ending a 45-year real estate and finance career....

LOS ANGELES -The Los Angeles Police Department "has had a couple of tough years," the city's new top cop said Thursday as he p...

Focus Column - By Mark Milstein and Alexander S. Polsky - Construction-defect lawsuits have been among the hottest political i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Charles James, the assistant U.S. attorney general who settled the government's antitrust case against Microso...

LOS ANGELES - A former basketball player for Los Angeles' Loyola Marymount University who lost her scholarship and place on th...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man who has served 10 years in prison was ordered released Thursday by a Martinez judge based on DNA testing...

SAN JOSE - As much as anything, Justice Thomas Harris appreciates the time to think. A member of the 5th District Court of App...

SAN FRANCISCO - During a July 2000 Alaskan vacation cruise, Thomas Lister discovered medical records showing that his partner,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Over the strenuous objection of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., a federal bankruptcy judge has approved hiring i...

SAN FRANCISCO - News of the passage Thursday of the Justice Department Reauthorization Act had the trademark community cheerin...

Dicta Column - By Richard J. Simmons - On Sept. 23, Gov. Gray Davis signed SB1661 authorizing paid family leave for Califor...