A federal judge Monday tentatively approved an agreement between the Los Angeles transportation agency and the American Civil ...

SANTA ANA - Janice Doezie, a former Orange adoption lawyer, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for smuggling pr...

A jury has awarded two sisters nearly $2 million for the violation of their civil rights by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Depar...

It's official. San Francisco's 126-year-old Pillsbury Madison & Sutro law firm will open for business as Pillsbury Winthro...

For the first time in its 150-year history, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has selected an As...

Over the past month, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has been quietly moving all the undocumented minors out of the...

With a BIFF! and a BAM! comic book and big-screen superhero Batman decked another opponent last week. The caped, pointy-eared ...

A scurvy-riddled crew aboard the sleek clipper ship "Challenger" caused a near-riot on San Francisco docks in 1850 when crewme...

Gov. Gray Davis on Monday announced the appointment of three new judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court: Deputy District Att...

The U.S. Supreme Court's unsigned decision to ask that the Florida Supreme Court clarify its decision to extend the time in wh...

VALLEJO - Twenty years ago, California prison inmate Ryland Cade was serving a 5 years-to-life state murder sentence to be fol...

Defense attorneys said they will file a motion for a new trial Monday for three Los Angeles Police Department officers convict...

Teaching the fine art of terse yet colorful legal writing did not prove difficult for one law professor.

The Electoral College is archaic, absurdly complicated and inequitable and deprives voters of equal access to a fair and just ...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association's business and corporations section recently honored Bert Massing with its Marvin Green...

Best Best & Krieger's San Diego office has acquired two new attorneys. Robert J. Hanna, former chairman of the general lit...

Two Silicon Valley titans recently set aside their hometown rivalry and joined forces to close a multi-million dollar deal. Co...

Five years ago, winemakers did deals over lunch, and brokers didn't ask lawyers to tag along. Today, too much is at stake to s...

The pendulum continues to swing in the direction of public access to information involved in lawsuits, even at the expense of ...

Homestore.com Inc. is buying Cendant Corp.'s Move.com Group for $761 million in stock. Thousand Oaks-based Homestore.com runs ...

Everyone involved in our justice system must remember that, whether his or her role is advocate, fact-finder or facilitator, l...

Ron Barak, a longtime large-firm real estate attorney, packed up his expertise and moved to Century City's Silver & Freedm...

El Paso Energy Corp. will acquire Pontio Communications Company Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Houston's El Paso Energy Corp....

Former retail finance executive Richard S. McKinley shifted gears in a big way to become the vice president of finance and chi...

Partners at San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and its new Wall Street merger partner Winthrop Stimson Putnam &...

Investment firm Bruckmann Rosser Sherrill & Co. has agreed to buy Il Fornaio (America) Corp. The $81.4 million stock deal ...

New York's Shearman & Sterling announced on Nov. 21 that it too will promise at least $40,000 in bonuses for its first-yea...

'TLC Hospitals' seemingly settles the law on recoupment of Medicare payments in the 9th Circuit. ...

Nearly a decade after state lawmakers established an industry-funded program to reduce lead poisoning among children, a San Fr...

Solectron Corp. has agreed to buy NatSteel Electronics Ltd. for $2.4 billion. Solectron, based in Milpitas, makes electronics ...