San Francisco's Sideman & Bancroft has brought aboard three lateral partners: S. Kendall Patton, Paul Gutierrez and Vincen...

Although the Internal Revenue Code is primarily business-driven, values-based considerations also come into play. For example,...

Andy Schwartz left Bank of America's 156-lawyer legal department shortly after it merged with North Carolina's NationsBank in ...

Downey Brand Seymour & Rohwer, a full-service firm in Sacramento, has recruited environmental associate Thomas Adams. Adam...

Just months after plunking down roots in Newark, N.J., San Francisco litigation shop Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold is ste...

The American Jewish Committee will honor Barry A. Sanders, a partner with Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins, at the 22nd annua...

SAN DIEGO - The seventh lawyer for a rape suspect has asked to be removed from the case after his client butted him in the fac...

NEWPORT BEACH - An Orange County judge who previously suppressed tape-recorded statements given to sheriff's investigators by ...

SAN DIEGO - Prosecutors on Friday called premature a defense claim that a 15-year-old boy charged in the shooting deaths of tw...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court has ordered the suspension from the practice of law of Arlo H. Smith, son of the forme...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has turned down a wealthy physician's attempt to divide his marriage assets under Islami...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced a Van Nuys criminal defense attorney to five years' probation Frida...

LOS ANGELES - In the first courtroom trial of a tire tread-separation lawsuit since the Ford-Firestone recall, jurors on Frida...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Vaughn J. Walker's activist attitude toward fee awards in securities class actions spelled...

WASHINGTON - New York boxing promoter Cedric Kushner was looking forward to the September 1998 bout between his heavyweight, H...

Shrinkwrap agreements challenge the traditional understanding of contract formation in a retail sale of goods.

The justices this week will hear these cases:

"Matters of principle" can jeopardize the whole negotiation. If your opponent is immovable on a deal point as a matter of prin...

As the dot-com buildup unwinds, employment attorneys see an increasing number of claims of fraudulent inducement. ...

LOS ANGELES - After years of a runaway bull market, the 1995 law designed to reduce the number of frivolous, shareholder class...

A pop quiz: Quick! Name the industry with the following characteristics: Products from this industry range in price, but can g...

On March 7, Democratic lawmakers in the Assembly announced that their top priority would be to reform the state's foster-care ...

The only things sure in life are death and taxes, or so goes the old saying. However, another sure thing is that the Internal ...

Forget checkers, chess, cards, Pac Man and Nintendo. The game of the 21st Century is about to be publicly released and, like s...

It began as a story about a team of investment bankers who break away from an established brokerage house to start their own f...

The Supreme Court counseled trial courts to consider the degree to which the legal market already compensates for the Serrano ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Civil rights attorneys have hailed a ruling in a massive education lawsuit that targets decrepit and overcrowd...

The West Coast may be the place for entrepreneurs to strike gold - of the precious metal or dot-com variety - but for investor...

Employee stock-ownership plans can cut significantly the costs of financing the purchase of stock. ...

LOS ANGELES - Charles M. Walker, a prominent Los Angeles tax attorney who worked under President Ford as the assistant secreta...