LOS ANGELES - When David Zuzow bought the upscale Eddie Bauer edition Ford Explorer, he did so because he thought it was the s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Praising it as "sensible" and "imaginative," a San Francisco judge on Monday approved a settlement in which fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan will not have to testify any time soon for defendants charged by his office...

SAN FRANCISCO - Parents of a 16-year-old boy who accidentally shot and killed his friend are covered by their homeowners' insu...

LOS ANGELES - It doesn't take much to get South Bay defense attorney Carl "Tony" Capozzola on a soapbox. Once he's on message,...

SAN JOSE -- A 60-year-old woman who was arrested and then strip-searched after a bus driver accused her of lying about her age...

SAN DIEGO - A lawyer for drivers ticketed through the city's red-light camera system asked a judge Monday to disqualify the ci...

LOS ANGELES - Ten women are on death row in California. Marie Elise West could become No. 11. Prosecutors have charged West wi...

Ciphergen Biosystems Inc. will buy BioSepra S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of Invitrogen Corp., for $12 million in cash. Ciph...

The American Bar Association has elected a San Francisco trial attorney as its new treasurer, who will oversee the organizatio...

Foster City's Cell Genesys Inc. has agreed to acquire Sunnyvale biotech company Calydon Inc. The stock deal is worth $17.4 mil...

SAN FRANCISCO - Several of the nation's biggest petroleum companies have agreed to settle a lawsuit demanding that they clean ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has nominated Latham & Watkins attorney David W. Fleming to the C...

The professional world of legal administrators has taken on a whole new shape in the last 10 years. ...

Jumping to a global platform, Marc S. Cohen has joined the Los Angeles office of Kaye Scholer , where he heads the firm's West...

The results are in for the National Assessment of Education Progress Test, a nationally administered mathematics exam for four...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has refused attorney J. Tony Serra's request for a restraining order to silence San Francisco narcotic...

After spending a decade with Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , Vera Elson has bid the firm adieu. Elson is th...

As the practice of law becomes increasingly gender-neutral, so do the ways attorneys approach business development. ...

Network-enabling company Lantronix Inc. has completed a second public offering of 8 million shares of common stock. The value ...

Meanwhile, in other American Bar Association news, the ABA has selected Norma Formanek, a litigation partner at San Francisco'...

The dot-com collapse has done more than put a damper on the Silicon Valley's once high-flying corporate and tech law firms. It...

A professional service firm without trust as a core value will corrode. Firm dissolutions as a result of failed relations betw...

Paul Raynor Keating is used to deals developing a lot faster than this. Keating, a partner with San Francisco-based Carroll Bu...

James J. Scheinkman has joined the Orange County office of Snell & Wilmer as a partner. Scheinkman, who joined the busines...

Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo and Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton have been courting each othe...

Eric Young is viewing a new piece of real estate each morning, now that he has joined Gordon & Rees' San Diego office. Ear...

With the continuing demise of the dot-coms, many Americans are being forced to consider relocating away from places like Silic...

BenefitPoint Holding Corp., an employee benefits business-to-business company, has acquired BenefitsAlliance, an employee-bene...

SAN DIEGO - The National Conference of State Trial Judges has presented its Award of Judicial Excellence to retired Superior C...