SAN FRANCISCO - The city's newest mega-firm, Pillsbury Winthrop, celebrated its first 100 days by sending cakes to more than 2...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review a lower court ruling that found unconstitutional a key...

SAN FRANCISCO - John A. Mendez, who served a brief but controversial stint as U.S. Attorney in San Francisco and has extensive...

LOS ANGELES - A former employee of the Screen Actors Guild has filed a lawsuit against the organization alleging racial discri...

LOS ANGELES - Although he died thousands of years before the Egyptians built the pyramids, the ancient American known as Kenne...

SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Magistrate Judge Edward A. Infante, who recently brokered a settlement in the 3Com securities class acti...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Coastal Commission, a unique state agency which for a quarter-century has controlled developmen...

The American Management Association found that 27 percent of all major American businesses monitored e-mail.

LOS ANGELES - In a victory for consumers, a state appeals court has ruled that even a truck registered to a dead guy is eligib...

Four of us sit in a small, barred, screened and Plexiglas-encased room this morning, on plastic chairs around a child-sized ta...

The booming economy of the late 1990s saw an unprecedented number of attorneys jumping from one law firm to another as they ai...

Although Linda Miller Savitt frequently defends men accused of sexual misconduct in the workplace, she dismisses the suggestio...

LOS ANGELES - Chicago's Sidley & Austin and New York's Brown & Wood announced Tuesday that the firms have merged to be...

In the "he said-she said" world of sexual harassment, written documentation is critical. That explains attorney Linda Miller S...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has been honored by the National Organization to Reform the Marijuana Laws ...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge Tuesday lambasted the Los Angeles city attorney's office for ignoring her order to show u...

LOS ANGELES - A gardener convicted of raping a Los Angeles attorney will not get a new trial nor a reduction in his 155-year s...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge will allow television cameras in the trial of alleged Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sar...

Speed is everything to neutral Natt Portugal. He became adept at gathering and disseminating information quickly, a skill indi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area law firms will try anything to get their names out. In the past few years, they've come up with fancy...

LOS ANGELES - While courts in two states battle for jurisdiction, a closely watched case to decide whether noncompete contract...

LOS ANGELES - A woman who sued her doctor for inflating her 34B breasts to a 40DD in a surgical procedure she didn't authorize...

SACRAMENTO - When it comes to Mike Brady, the State Bar of California seems to have a split personality. On one hand, bar pros...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles may be ground zero for the world's automobile culture, but putting a "for sale" sign on a car and pa...

SANTA BARBARA - In the space of two years, Gregory J. Parker went from a small-town real estate and finance attorney to an exe...

SACRAMENTO - The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday easily defeated an attempt by tort reformers to cap punitive damage a...

A simple remedy to the physical aspects of courtroom stress can be found in stretching exercises, which relieve tension and re...

Once you figure out why prior settlement attempts failed, you will be able to focus on avoiding past mistakes in the upcoming ...

SAN DIEGO - After two hours of deliberation, a San Diego Superior Court jury late Monday acquitted Cincinnati Bengals quarterb...

One of the many curious things one observes at The Firm is that while some lawyers slave away and devote themselves to the law...