What is the "crime of aggression," and why doesn't the United States want the International Criminal Court to punish it? The U...

SANTA ANA - State attorney general staffers are surprised that an Orange County homicide prosecutor's firing occurred in part ...

SAN FRANCISCO - He had been with Foley & Lardner for less than a year, but lawyers there say the loss of Peter Ferris has ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Palo Alto lawyer who was "blinded by greed" has been ordered by a federal judge to repay roughly $200,000 of...

Allowing two mediators to work as a team in a mediation can be very beneficial to clients. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster, the last of the Bay Area's biggest firms to announce its salary plans, will be forgoi...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors argued Monday against a fifth postponement of the April 30 trial of former Symbionese Liberation Arm...

LOS ANGELES - "Bye, Ali." It was a fitting send-off to U.S. Attorney Alejandro N. Mayorkas from "Hollywood madam" Heidi Fleiss...

CHINO - The mother of two former students sued the Chino Valley Unified School District, claiming the district discriminated a...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday ruled against the city of Los Angeles, allowing a man to pursue his civil rights lawsu...

SAN FRANCISCO - A panel of special masters has determined that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, who attende...

SACRAMENTO - For more than 15 years convicted hatchet murderer Kevin Cooper has insisted he is innocent, and lately he has ask...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fallout from the fatal dog mauling case involving San Francisco attorney Robert Noel has ramifications for a p...

LOS ANGELES - Political theater surrounding the city elections reached a crescendo Monday as city attorney candidate Lea Purwi...

Lawyers who don't get enough law during working hours can now get more than enough from TV. ...

LOS ANGELES - Eighteen months after Steven Bochco sued 20th Century Fox for breach of contract, the TV studio's parent company...

San Francisco-based law firms cleaned up at the 2001 Legal Marketing Association's Your Honor Awards. The Chicago-based profes...

Everyone has an exit strategy. For most, this seems to take the form of some nebulous dream career that they plan to pursue af...

Say it ain't so, Heidi-Ho. The saga of Heidi Fleiss continues, with the Hollywood madam lunging back into the news March 29. T...

The ever-expanding Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati opened a new site for its Japanese clients on March 26. The new site i...

The San Francisco office of Los Angeles' Cox Castle & Nicholson added a pair of lawyers from Alden Aronovsky & Sax, a ...

Portola Packaging Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Northern Engineering and Plastics Corp., has bought all the assets...

Thomas Cleary is in an enviable position. The Riordan & McKinzie corporate partner represented a recession-proof fast-food...

A complete legal defense may still be a long shot, but that doesn't mean that liable-but-innocent parties can't ultimately pre...

Less than a week after recruiting new partners for its Silicon Valley and Orange County offices, McDermott Will & Emery di...

Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges is becoming something of a nomad in Northern California. After most of...

In a decision that may deter certain lawsuits under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, ...

LSI Logic Corp. has agreed to buy C-Cube Microsystems Inc. for $878 million in stock. Milpitas' LSI Logic designs and makes st...

LOS ANGELES - Lisa Hill Fenning left the bankruptcy bench last year to return to private practice but was unable to find a law...

Chicago's Mayer Brown & Platt is blowing into Silicon Valley. Lawyers there say they expect to open the doors of their sec...