LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday refused to remove one of the defense lawyers for former Symbionese ...

LOS ANGELES - The Immigration and Naturalization Service has been called a lot of things, but Santa Claus isn't one of them. T...

SAN FRANCISCO - A public defender whose professional negligence sends an innocent person to jail is not immune from malpracti...

LOS ANGELES - Who's afraid of People v. Mooc? The Los Angeles Police Department. The obscure Orange County criminal case is a ...

WASHINGTON - If President George W. Bush gets a chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, he probably won't be able to fulfil...

SAN FRANCISCO - What do Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab, Fenwick & West and Men's Wearhouse have in common? They're all Bay...

After having read Justice Antonin Scalia's recent opinion regarding the stay of the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Bush v...

The court stated that tie votes are incompatible with the kind of affirmative action implied in the regulations. ...

The call of the general counsel slot was like a siren song for Peter Astiz. He left large-firm life a year and a half ago, ent...

Specialty Laboratories Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $80 million. Santa Monica's Specialty Laboratories is a f...

Norm Rubenstein, chief marketing officer for San Francisco-based Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, warns that his firm will b...

Like Fred in "Miracle On 34th Street," litigators sometimes become too enamored with their own impact, their own theories of t...

This year, the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley held its annual LACY honors during the day. The move was a resounding success,...

George Borkowski, a litigation partner with Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp will be on loan to the Recording Indu...

Once a firm has determined and clearly defined its practice-management needs, then begins the daunting task of evaluating and ...

Palo Alto's Cooley Godward announced that its 165-lawyer San Francisco office has secured space equivalent to an additional fl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just as he has every year since 1984, Steinhart & Falconer partner William Campbell will spend part of his...

Courts are less reluctant than in the past to award attorney fees to prevailing defendants in employment actions. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco police officer has agreed to settle his lawsuit against the estate of an advertising executiv...

San Francisco bankruptcy boutique McNutt & Litteneker has recruited a two-time U.S. Bankruptcy Court law clerk and Luce Fo...

Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May went on a hiring spree for all its offices. The firm added 21 attorneys - five lat...

The American Academy of Appellate Lawyers has named Peter W. Davis president. The San Francisco partner with Oakland's Crosby ...

As chief patent counsel for Proctor & Gamble, Koos Rasser was a client of Washington, D.C.'s Howrey & Simon when the f...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is buying HighGround Systems Inc. in a stock deal valued at $400 million. Palo Alto's Sun Microsystems m...

John Austin, a retired partner colleagues say was instrumental in creating the character of San Francisco's Morrison & Foe...

Amanda McHugh has always been something of a daredevil. Three years ago, the San Diego lawyer traded her stable job at Gordon ...

After Jan. 1, Los Angles' Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey will be just a bunch of lawyers in the local office of Akin...

Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $35 million. South San Francisco's Rigel Pharmaceuticals i...

Santa Clara's diaDexus Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $100 million. DiaDexus, founded by genomics com...

It's pretty difficult to interview an attorney about his most recent corporate deal when he refuses to talk about himself. Tha...