SAN FRANCISCO - The San Diego federal judicial district received no new judges in 1999, "yet it continued to lead the nation w...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Dec. 28 for James M. Shields, retired managing attorney for CNA. Shields died Dec. 3 in...

Apparently fearing further limitations on Congress' legislative reach, supporters of Vice President Al Gore have criticized Ge...

LOS ANGELES - A developer who planned to make an "entertainment destination center" at the Hollywood Galaxy theater complex ha...

SAN JOSE - Attorneys for defendants in the Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case tried for a third time Monday to persuade a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Youth advocates filed suit here Monday seeking to improve conditions in overcrowded youth shelters across the...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Public Defender cannot be held in contempt for failing to turn over completed juror questi...

LOS ANGELES - An oil company's suit against a consumer group that attempted to enforce public interest rights under Propositio...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Melvyn B. Fliegel, Century City attorney and former partner at Alschuler Grossman ...

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...