PALO ALTO - A Santa Clara County judge has ruled that a former Palo Alto medical technician must stand trial on six felony cou...

Century City's Hecker Law Group has brought in a new attorney to launch its corporate law department. Helene Pretsky will head...

After its most recent headcount, San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster found itself just past the 1,000-lawyer mark. The fir...

The Florida Supreme Court is profoundly wrong for analytic, institutional and pragmatic reasons. ...

The Institute for International Research has purchased AchieveGlobal for $100 million. AchieveGlobal, a subsidiary of new-medi...

Microchip Technology Inc. is acquiring TelCom Semiconductor Inc. in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $300 million. Moun...

Come January, two corporate partners from the Orange County office of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison will be helping clients g...

A Los Angeles employment dispute has put Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps in an awkward position as the subject of a test c...

Cristina Arguedas, name partner at Emeryville's Cooper Arguedas & Cassman, has become a fellow of the American College of ...

San Francisco's well-known intellectual property shop, Townsend and Townsend and Crew, finally is putting together a separate ...

Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS has added two new members - a family law judge and a real estate attorney - to it...

San Francisco's Legal Community Against Violence , the non-profit group founded in the aftermath of the 101 California St. sho...

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles' annual Access To Justice Awards event and fund-raiser on Tuesday honored investment b...

Amanda Susskind has a theory: "You can be a good lawyer without being creative, but you cannot be a great lawyer without being...

The St. Vincent Medical Center Foundation of Los Angeles has named a local bankruptcy associate to its board of directors. Mar...

LOS ANGELES - The upcoming attempted bombing trial of ex-Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson, formerly Kathleen...

SAN DIEGO - A judge has placed owners of the Mira Mesa Inn on three years' probation and ordered them to close their business ...

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood Boulevard, just as the stars whose names adorn its "Walk of Fame," has been undergoing several face li...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Friday issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Los Angeles Police Department from u...

Someone whose free-speech rights under the California Constitution are violated cannot sue for money damages, an appellate cou...

LOS ANGELES - As its attorneys turned off the lights and closed the doors Thursday night, Tuttle & Taylor's reign as one o...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has struck down Measure F, an Orange County ballot measure halting planning of an internati...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices appeared sharply split Friday on whether to reverse the Florida Supreme Court's decisi...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Council members Friday denounced the Los Angeles Police Department's heavy street presence duri...

Public utilities can send political literature to customers along with their bills, a California appellate court has said, str...

SACRAMENTO - Buzz words at the state Fair Political Practices Commission these days, such as "reasonable foreseeability," "pub...

LOS ANGELES - The Daily Journal Corporation has announced the launch of its Web site, which gives subscribers access to curren...

The class-action option has long served a dual purpose, both allowing individuals to combine relatively small claims and reso...

LOS ANGELES - For six years, young immigrants from Mexico found work as graveyard-shift janitors in supermarkets in Southern C...

By Julie Nakashima Transportation is one of the biggest issues real estate developers face. Proximity to airports, ports and ...