The fallout from the Clinton administration continues, and for San Francisco's Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton that mean...

SACRAMENTO - As a student at San Juan High School in Citrus Heights, D. Robert Shuman began to dream of a career in the law. T...

Ariba Inc. is buying Agile Software Corp. in a stock swap valued at $2.55 billion. Mountain View's Ariba is a business-to-busi...

Need a good headhunter, but don't know how to choose from the legions that cold-call your office every day? Look no longer; we...

The Hecker Law Group, an intellectual property boutique in Los Angeles, has hired Karim Elaagouby as a senior scientist. Elaag...

Joel Ackerman, who was of-counsel at San Francisco's Limbach & Limbach when the partners decided to disband late last year...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court ruling indirectly shores up Gov. Gray Davis' efforts to keep convicted killer Robert Ros...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County sex crimes prosecutor accused of attacking his estranged wife's boyfriend was barred by a judge F...

SANTA ANA - Less than two months ago, Brandon Ketsdever's family and friends rejoiced over the conviction of his suspected kil...

SAN JOSE - In what officials say is the first program of its kind in the nation, Santa Clara County has launched a juvenile me...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ever since the appearance of online file sharing technologies such as Napster, the copyright industry has shif...

SACRAMENTO - While the Supreme Court addresses an important punitive damages issue, a tort reform group in California is spons...

WASHINGTON - Tim Leatherman, co-founder and president of Portland, Ore.-based Leatherman Tool Group, got an unpleasant surpris...

Emotions run pretty high when people talk about Napster. Either you love the service, finding yourself losing sleep to the und...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place for retired Los Angeles attorney Gloria J. Farquar Van Dyk. Van Dyk died Feb. 3 of cong...

The ability to listen to and download music over the Internet currently is one of the hottest topics in the entertainment indu...

Mike Tribble is just the kind of man high-tech companies want on their side. As a software developer, Tribble writes programs ...

SACRAMENTO - In an austere room lacking the nail-biting spectators, balloons and flashing lights that typically accompany a s...

PASADENA - A memorial service will take place Saturday for retired Pasadena Municipal Court Judge Samuel L. Laidig. Laidig die...

SAN FRANCISCO - A hearing officer Thursday ordered the destruction of Hera, one of the dogs involved in the mauling death of ...

The State Bar these days, unlike the Tareyton smokers in the old cigarette ad, would rather switch than fight. Last month, the...

There's a lot in the newspapers these days about rude lawyers and about how lawyers can do a better job of being civil to each...

Millions of Netizens held their breath last week as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rendered its long-anticipated decisi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gordon & Rees, a firm best-known as a statewide litigation shop, announced that it has acquired a small S...

Effective last Oct. 1, the federal Electronic Signatures and Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq.,...

A recently concluded wireless-spectrum auction raked in a record amount of money, but not without raising a host of legal issu...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association has formally opposed an American Bar Association proposal to encourage st...

SANTA ANA - A judge will decide today whether prosecutors have enough evidence to proceed with the case against an Orange Coun...

PASADENA - Colleagues of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg on Thursday described the embattled jurist as "ou...

RIVERSIDE - A 77-year-old man who chained his emaciated granddaughter to a bed may avoid state prison after pleading guilty to...