SAN FRANCISCO - A retired agent with the federal Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is suing the city of Davis and it...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether attorneys who help clients win Social Security claims should...

SAN FRANCISCO - It looks like a Blue Christmas awaits lawyers accustomed to juicy year-end bonuses. As 2001 draws to a close, ...

As of Jan. 1, 2002, the Euro will be the official currency in most European Union countries (except the United Kingdom, Sweden...

For many years, U.S. businesses have been subject to an elaborate series of regulatory controls and prohibitions affecting the...

As the holiday season rapidly approaches and our world's axis feels off-kilter, I don't know anyone who didn't count their ble...

Many lawyers minimize the importance of opening statements, preferring to focus on witness examinations and closing arguments....

No one disputes the need to bring the terrorists to justice. The president's Nov. 13 executive order authorizing "military com...

This year, eight Northern California law firms have donated large sums of money to non-profit legal service provider Bay Area ...

Litigator Allan Browne has a clear conception of paradise. Forget the beautiful, if not trite, images of tropical isles or fou...

A few hundred black-tie-clad guests enjoyed cocktails and chatted with one another Nov. 9 at the Mexican American Legal Defen...

San Diego-based Anderson & Kriger has pledged $10,000 to the University of San Diego to help fund the law school's newly e...

San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster established a new practice area this month to guide clients through the complex world ...

San Jose-based Implant Center Inc. has purchased assets from Los Angeles' Ion Implant Services Inc. Neither company disclosed ...

The Guardians of the Jewish Home for the Aging have presented its Above & Beyond Hall of Fame award to Perry Silver, a par...

Acacia Research Corp. of Pasadena acquired Greenwich Information Technologies of Greenwich, Conn. Neither company disclosed th...

Looking to a new frontier, Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch plans to open an office in north San Diego county within the...

The Asian Professional Exchange has awarded Holland & Knight associate Adam C. Ritter its 2001 President's Award. The Los ...

Atlanta's Coca-Cola Co. agreed to purchase Half Moon Bay-based Odwalla Inc. in a transaction valued at $181 million. Coca-Cola...

Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Robert McNeill Jr., a partner at Ivie McNeill & Wyatt in downtown Los Angeles, a board membe...

It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Three environmental attorneys, who focus on such muddy problems as contaminated la...

The American Academy of Appellate Lawyers has selected Douglas R. Young, president of the San Francisco Bar Association and pa...

Friday, Nov. 16, 2001: Doomsday. Judgment Day. Bar results day.         Antonella Nistorescu was nervous at work most of Frid...

A new attorney has taken the helm at the Orange County office of Severson & Werson , and he's ready to move it into the ne...

Sweet-talking recruits for its summer associate program, the Los Angeles office of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy enclosed ...

There was a sinister side to the roaring 1990s. When stock markets surged, a slew of thirty-something technology buffs sudden...

Mark Kelson admits he didn't know much about technology when he began representing Pasadena-based Acacia Research Corp. about ...

It was arguably one of the most Byzantine real estate development deals in the history of downtown Los Angeles yet the daedal ...

Fremont's Abgenix Inc. acquired Hesed Biomed Inc. of Omaha, Neb. Neither company disclosed terms of the deal. Abgenix is a bio...