The Internal Revenue Service has appointed Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe's Perry Israel to a new advisory committee establ...

Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, was passed by California voters in 1986. Health and Safety ...

This time last year, top Shearman & Sterling partner Peter Lyons was heading out to Menlo Park from his firm's New York ho...

Redback Networks Inc. of San Jose will buy Fremont's Merlin Systems for $57 million in stock. Redback's designs, develops and ...

Computer Sciences Corp. has signed a seven-year, $100 million contract to upgrade the technology information systems of Childr...

"If [management] is not gonna [do what we want], we're gonna have to go to their, their homes ... to blow off their front porc...

At the end of May, the startup-focused Menlo Park firm Venture Law Group became the first Northern California law firm to admi...

News flash! The Internet boom is over. Hundreds of Web sites are bust. OK, so it isn't exactly breaking news. And it isn't a s...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster has added to its already strong patent practice in San Diego. Patent att...

LOS ANGELES - At least he didn't pretend he was Shaq. A man arrested Friday allegedly posed as the son of Los Angeles Lakers' ...

LOS ANGELES - Two legal secretaries in the Los Angeles office of the attorney general have filed a discrimination lawsuit agai...

SACRAMENTO - Since the 1996 passage of Proposition 215, the medical marijuana initiative, district attorneys have been trying ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento jury's $1.4 million verdict in favor of a young boy who was mutilated in a botched circumcision c...

SAN JOSE - The San Jose chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club will walk into a federal courtroom today in an unusual pos...

LOS ANGELES - Congresswoman Maxine Waters switched her endorsement in the Los Angeles city attorney's race - and possibly deli...

LOS ANGELES - A judge has dismissed misdemeanor charges against attorney Shawn Chapman, co-counsel for former Symbionese Liber...

Charles H. Dick Jr., a litigation partner at the San Diego office of Chicago's Baker & McKenzie, has been elected a nation...

SAN FRANCISCO - Long live the legal battle between psychologists and psychiatrists over who has authority to discharge mentall...

SAN JOSE - A federal judge handed Yahoo Inc. a major victory Thursday in its battle with French courts and antidefamation grou...

Mealtime interviews must be managed properly to secure that job offer. ...

'A Chinaman is cold, cunning and distrustful; always ready to take advantage of those he has to deal with; extremely covetous ...

"In law ... the emphasis makes the song." - Justice Felix Frankfurter. "It is planned to keep the work up to date ... No doubt...

Frontier towns were not fit for stable families and peaceful development without a sheriff around. Professional baseball games...

The lawsuits fall into two categories: those targeted at the out-of-state owners of the power-generating plants and those dire...

LOS ANGELES - Edward Sonnenschein, rainmaker at the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins, will leave his practice to lea...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would ban secret settlements involving defective products and environmental hazards that can hurt the...

LOS ANGELES - A Web site aimed at helping middle-income people navigate the legal system launches today. Sponsored by the Amer...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executives underwent sharp questioning Thursday from a Justice Department attorne...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge decided Thursday to quash a defense attorney's subpoenas ordering two parole ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A public memorial service and reception honoring the late state appellate Justice Clinton White will be held T...