SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor's daughter testified Monday that she lied during earlier hearings and omitted informat...

Focus Column - Franchise Law - Most franchise agreements provide the franchisee with a right of renewal. But few allow renewal...

Forum Column - By Chip Nielsen and Lance Olson - Election experts predict Proposition 52 will increase voter turnout in Califo...

Forumn Column - By Dave Gilliard - Does allowing people to register to vote on Election Day, without providing any official ID...

The advertisements want you to believe that diamonds are beautiful, but as Nicolas Kublicki shows in his new novel, the diamon...

Sarah Davis' trial against American Honda Motors Co. took an unexpected turn. The quadriplegic sued Honda for causing her crip...

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles will present federal Judge Dickran Tevrizian of the U.S. District Court for the Centra...

With merger mania and law firm economics, it's often here today, gone tomorrow. That seems to be the case in the latest round ...

Lorman Education Services will sponsor a daylong conference on toxic mold Nov. 7 at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa...

Palo Alto's IXI Mobile Inc., which develops software that enables cutting-edge wireless devices to interact, has raised $15 mi...

The Pasadena Bar Association honored Justice Dorothy Nelson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with the Judge of the Yea...

The combination of Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May with Pittsburgh's Reed Smith is the latest law firm merger with a b...

A lump of coal is a precious commodity, as two newly merged Utah companies can attest. The companies, which extract value from...

Lord, Bissell & Brook has hired finance and real estate partner Cherie Raidy away from the Los Angeles office of New York'...

Snow White, the Seven Dwarfs, the Wicked Queen and the Mirror made an appearance at Esperanza Elementary School in Los Angeles...

Column by Karl J. Schulze - Business litigation today rarely progresses without the use of a variety of experts, whether as a ...

NetIQ Corp. of San Jose has agreed to buy a privately held computer security company in a deal valued at $255 million in cash ...

Joseph Johnston is the latest judge to join JAMS, a private alternative dispute resolution provider. Johnston, 68, brings with...

Customers frequenting the dozens of Rent-A-Center stores in California should notice more female employees helping them, after...

The attorneys at Morrison & Foerster probably can't stand on the balance beam without risking bodily injury, and it's not ...

Eddie Rodriguez has left the San Diego office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and accepted an offer to establish a corporat...

In Closing Column - By Pamela J. Voich & Michele C.S. Lange - In October 2001, the California Legislature passed amendment...

Cord Blood Registry, which stores stem cells from newborns for use in case of a future medical emergency, has secured $18 mill...

Superior Court Judge Peter Spinetta's role in bringing a new family court services building to Contra Costa County was so exce...

John Russo, Oakland's first elected city attorney, recently became the first person in that position to take the top spot at t...

Thanks to a donation from the San Pedro office of Wilkes & McHugh, students at Loyola Law School can learn about elder abu...

By John Ryan San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has added a product liability strength to its West Coast liti...

LOS ANGELES - Alex Dang throws open the door to the room where his co-counsel, Estaban Morales, is rehearsing opening statemen...

After a year of virulent charges and countercharges in the race for San Diego County district attorney, the most inflammatory ...

LOS ANGELES - The Winona Ryder shoplifting trial got off to a rocky start last week with the media and the judge tussling over...