Two new faces are gracing the halls of Los Angeles' Tyre Kamins Katz & Granof. Jeanine Goldberg, 62, joined the firm on Ja...

Berkeley's The Impact Fund, the nation's only foundation devoted to funding complex public-interest impact litigation, has awa...

Lightbridge Inc. is buying Corsair Communications Inc. in a $165 million stock transaction. Boston's Lightbridge is a communic...

SAN FRANCISCO - Floyd C. Frisch is an attorney, thanks to his instructors at Yale Divinity School. Against the advice of his m...

LOS ANGELES - The case of three teen-agers charged in the May 5 gang killing of a high-school athlete in Glendale is on hold w...

LOS ANGELES - A former respiratory therapist who nicknamed himself the "Angel of Death" and confessed to hastening the deaths ...

LOS ANGELES - Four candidates hold differing views of how they would run the Los Angeles city attorney's office if elected to ...

SACRAMENTO - If Gov. Gray Davis finds himself hopelessly entangled in the state's energy crisis, he still has some powerful, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three Bay Area attorney/neutrals have joined forces and opened their own, three-member alternative dispute res...

SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick Servantes was hell on wheels. But the renegade San Francisco tow truck driver has to pay $214,200 in f...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry's decision Friday to keep former Los Angeles police Officer Raf...

LOS ANGELES - As an anthropologist doing research on the religion and belief system of the primitive Shipibos tribe in the Per...

LOS ANGELES - Computer programs can cause problems even when they are only hypothetical. So the Law School Admissions Council ...

The 'Caldwell' decision suggests that any writing issued by the manufacturer within 18 years of an accident might be enough to...

YourMobile.com allows users to customize their cellphone ring tones by selecting their own music. ...

We, as lawyers, have been the guardians of words in our society. We, have, by default, been the wordsmiths of everyday life, t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has certified a class of female scientists, engineers, chemists and other employees who claim their em...

It would appear that the losing party must pay attorney fees to prevailing parties who are represented by free legal-services ...

The rights of consumers in California are severely limited by the high court's ruling in "Aas." ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jeff Adachi formally announced his candidacy to be San Francisco's next public defender, launching a 13-month ...

In the seven years since the Northridge earthquake on Jan. 17, 1994, California insurers have spent more than $16 billion hono...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors say they have no further need to keep former Los Angeles police officer Rafael Perez in local custod...

Imagine a goose, flying across Illinois on its way to Canada for the summer. It's almost nightfall, and the goose could use a ...

Stock options that promised a future of Ferraris and mansions used to be enough to keep people at their jobs. But now, with th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Interim San Francisco Public Defender Kimiko Burton acknowledged Thursday that two more deputy attorneys have ...

The Walt Disney Co.'s decision to close the portal Go.com will enable the company to focus on key Web sites with greater brand...

Evidently, Randy Lane hasn't been paying attention to the news. Otherwise, Lane would've known that the energy crisis has rend...

SACRAMENTO - Barry Goode, a partner in McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen, is leaving the firm after 25 years to become secre...

When a Web site opens its electronic doors, are they thrown wide open to all users for any and all purposes, or can the Web si...

A 2-year-old underwriting practice could reinforce the perception that corporate big shots aren't playing by accepted rules of...