The American Bar Association has appointed Joan Haratani, a partner in Crosby Heafey Roach & May's Oakland headquarters, v...

An environmental law duo from the local office of Chicago's Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal joined the environmental and nat...

Earlier this month, on the Fourth of July, our nation celebrated the 225th anniversary of its independence, declared in a docu...

Mosk's legacy illustrates the limits of judicial power in a society that over the years has become harder on crime and crimina...

Richard McDonald knows it helps to have a plan. The veteran commercial litigator returned July 1 to his old stomping grounds, ...

In its recent decision, Tyler v. Cain, 2001 U.S.LEXIS 4909 (June 28, 2001), the Supreme Court held that its prior holdi...

It looks like Dan Lungren, former California attorney general and legislator, once again is getting comfortable inside the Bel...

The Royal Society of Health has awarded a special citation to George A. Peters, a name partner in Santa Monica's Peters & ...

San Jose's Centerpoint Broadband Technologies will acquire Zaffire Inc., also of San Jose. The companies did not disclose the ...

When George Gonzalez went to see the summer blockbuster "Pearl Harbor," a three-hour World War II epic, he was one of the few ...

Computer giant Sun Microsystems Inc. will buy online training-system developer Isopia Inc. The companies did not disclose the ...

By most accounts, the practice of law is neither kind nor gentle. So perhaps it's appropriate that the California Bar Exam res...

LOS ANGELES - In an unusual turn of events, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge took the witness stand Friday in a murder case....

Negotiating with a privately held Canadian company can be tricky, Michael Dorf recently discovered. A corporate and securities...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some illustrations of escalating judicial campaign costs and contributions: ...

The Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center presented Drucilla Ramey, outgoing executive director and general counsel of the B...

John Petrovich, a former partner in the Los Angeles office of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, is working his way...

SAN FRANCISCO - Faced with the need to mount million-dollar election campaigns, more judges are seeking help from those with a...

LOS ANGELES - In what is believed to be the first writ granted in connection with a Proposition 36 case, the 2nd District Cour...

Do screaming partners, escalating billable hours and demanding corporate clients have you eyeing the door, contemplating a bol...

LOS ANGELES - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas had a conflict in calling for a grand jury probe into the 1988 s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Charles "Ed" Sherman wrote a best-seller, "How to Do Your Own Divorce in California," and 20 years la...

LOS ANGELES - Seven elderly and disabled tenants facing eviction from their Venice apartment complex have sued their landlord ...

LOS ANGELES - The fate of a 4-year-old Thai boy, stranded in Los Angeles after being caught in a slave-trafficking ring, may b...

SAN FRANCISCO - A fractious 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered two majority decisions, one ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW - Venturing into the Silicon Valley, Attorney General John Ashcroft has unveiled a plan to increase the weight o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nolo's flying solo. And hostile lawyers are still trying to shoot it down. The Berkeley self-help law book pub...

Alexis de Tocqueville, author of "Democracy in America," observed in the 1800s that you could judge a country by the way it tr...

'Legally Blonde' captures the essence of at least one Harvard Law School graduate's experience. ...

To state the obvious, the U.S. Supreme Court must do more than simply resolve the controversies in the cases before it; the co...