Cambridge, Mass.-based Altus Biologics Inc. has raised $35 million in private financing from a group of investors that include...

Two San Francisco ERISA attorneys have taken their expertise in employment benefits plans over to Kirkpatrick & Lockhart ....

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have made it clear that many people's patriotism, although dormant until then, had been there a...

At a party honoring the state's top lawyers, Reign's private VIP room, adjacent to the main restaurant, filled quickly with hi...

According to Barry Langberg , of Century City's Stroock & Stroock & Lavan , one byproduct of the terror attacks on New...

Cytyc Corp. of Boxborough, Mass., has agreed to acquire Menlo Park-based Pro-Duct Health Inc. in a stock-and-cash transaction....

SAN BERNARDINO - An appellate court may have delivered the final blow to law-enforcement efforts to apply the prostitution law...

SAN FRANCISCO - As a law student during the dot-com boom, Tania Shah couldn't see a future for herself as a junior associate h...

LOS ANGELES - A creative twist in California adoption law enabled Mary Newcombe, who is gay and unmarried, to adopt her first ...

SAN JOSE - Three California residents who volunteered to run America Online chat rooms and answer user questions have filed a ...

LOS ANGELES - Deputy Public Defender Larry H. Farinholt likely will face misdemeanor charges instead of felony charges for all...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has ruled for the first time that California's three strikes sentencing law violates t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The New York office of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop last week laid off 10 percent of its associate staff...

WASHINGTON - When Walter Mickens Jr. went on trial in 1993 for the brutal murder and attempted forcible sodomy of 17-year-old ...

Like other business-transaction attorneys throughout the state, Cyrus Sanai has seen the tech boom come and go. But he's still...

SACRAMENTO - Bion Gregory, the California Legislature's chief lawyer for 25 years, is retiring, but he is not going to allow h...

RIVERSIDE - The 4th District Court of Appeal has found that "triable issues of fact" exist that a Denny's restaurant in Rivers...

RENO, Nev. - Federal appeals court Judge Procter Hug will retire from active service after 24 years on the 9th U.S. Circuit Co...

LAGUNA NIGUEL - The ashes of James R. Biram, a sole practitioner for 34 years and an ardent fly fisherman, will be scattered i...

To satisfy the element of causation in a product-liability case, a plaintiff must prove that the defendant's product was a "su...

Once again, the nation stands on high alert, responding to nonspecific information suggesting potential terrorist attacks. The...

In an occupational-disease case, the statute of limitations is a trap for an injured worker's attorney and for third-party cou...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer described by his contemporaries as a giant in the world of criminal defense has died, leaving vivid mem...

LOS ANGELES - Troubled by Sara Jane Olson's claims of innocence to reporters after she admitted guilt in court to a decades-ol...

RIVERSIDE - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday appointed sole practitioner Thomas H. Cahraman to the Riverside County bench. Cahraman...

SAN DIEGO - Directors of the San Diego County Deputy District Attorneys Association are asking members for a highly unusual no...

RIVERSIDE - The Commission on Judicial Performance filed disciplinary charges Thursday against former Riverside County Superio...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco trial judge took the unusual step of dismissing robbery charges against two defendants this we...

Most firms that enjoy long-term success didn't just strike gold accidentally. They drafted and implemented strategic plans t...

One hears everywhere that there are too many lawyers, that California soon will have given out 200,000 bar cards, that every f...