Visto Corp. of Mountain View raised $31 million in a sixth round of venture capital financing. Walden VC II Media of San Franc...

The American Intellectual Property Law Association has chosen for a top leadership position the managing partner of Howrey Sim...

Occam Networks Inc. of Moorpark and Accelerated Networks Inc. have agreed to a merger. Neither company disclosed terms of the ...

SAN DIEGO - Voters in the March 5 primary election will select judges in four races, with only one sitting judge being challen...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Volunteer Legal Services Program of the Bar Association of San Francisco and Central California Legal Serv...

SAN FRANCISCO - The United States Patent and Trademark Office has declared an emergency as thousands of time-sensitive patent ...

LOS ANGELES - The starting salary is $145,100, and the paychecks keep coming until you die. You get to rule over your own mini...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nicholas Van Aelstyn is heavily invested in the pro bono work he does for the Compassion in Dying Federation i...

LOS ANGELES - When attorney Dina Kaplan tried to get better reading instruction at a public school for her friend's son, who h...

WASHINGTON - To get to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court inside the Department of Justice, you must enter a c...

One of the more difficult laws to understand and apply in California is the child-abuse statute, Penal Code Section 273a. The ...

Prospects are favorable for settlement of the biggest antitrust case in decades. The good news is that Microsoft's billionaire...

Consider this: You buy a crib for your baby, and you take the railings off, or you lock the front door to your house but leave...

Recently, Attorney General John Ashcroft caused quite a commotion by announcing that federal authorities would monitor attorne...

In our wired world, it may be easier to get your 15 minutes of fame than 10 free calling card minutes. That's one conclusion I...

OAKLAND - Judge Leo Dorado raised his eyebrows and cocked his head. He was listening to a pro per defendant, soon to be on tri...

SAN FRANCISCO - Snooze and lose, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has told a rookie Virginia lawyer who forfe...

SAN BERNARDINO - Retired 4th District Court of Appeal Justice Robert E. Rickles, known by friends and colleagues as a "no-nons...

LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline's colleagues were still in shock last week following his arrest ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hera, one of the dogs involved in the fatal Jan. 26 mauling of Pacific Heights resident Diane Whipple, may be ...

LOS ANGELES - Randall R. Lee, a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles for the past seven years, was named on Wednesday director of...

LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Appointments Wednesday confirmed three justices to state appellate courts in Southern...

SAN JOSE - William B. Stewart III has almost everything a dissident challenger needs to run against Santa Clara County Distric...

LOS ANGELES - Whittier Law School's new dean hasn't had much time to write poetry or work out with his son since he moved here...

Franchise agreements frequently provide that the franchisor has unlimited discretion with regard to a variety of decisions, su...

As the legal job market continues its retreat from the boom-time hiring of 1999 and 2000, the victims of law firm and in-house...

This year, a new round of deaths and injuries associated with binge drinking is likely to occur at colleges and universities t...

Judges often are asked to name their judicial role models. This has led me to consider what figures from our past could be us...