WASHINGTON - When veterinarian Elliot M. Katz tried to unfurl a banner in 1994 at San Francisco's Presidio, he was protesting ...

A non-practicing patent lawyer from Santa Cruz has taken on the Web's most powerful ruling body, the Internet Corporation for ...

Seeking to further expand public access to court records, legislation is in the works that would severely limit secret settlem...

District Attorney-elect Steve Cooley on Monday named an 11-member team headed by John Van de Kamp to oversee the transition fr...

The screening process for PDQuick (formerly Pink Dot) employees is expected to come under scrutiny with the filing Monday of a...

The Rodent wonders where one goes to apply for a job as a legal humor scholar. ...

Our present method of collecting and transporting ballots could cause a local, state or national crisis of staggering proporti...

Californians, and maybe Americans as a whole, are sending signals that they're ready to take some of the bite out of the crimi...

Among actions announced Monday, November 13, 2000 by the justices were:

What if, instead of inaugurating the president-elect on Jan. 20, we inaugurate a group presidency of thousands of California p...

The issue that has been left out of this election is the abysmal failure of our child-labor laws. A society can face no more s...

Cleveland-based Arter & Hadden has added seven lawyers to its San Diego office from Hillyer & Irwin, also in San Diego...

Steve McHolm and Dan Winton, a pair of real estate lawyers who've been law partners for 18 years, won't have to part when thei...

Minneapolis' Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly plans to acquire the Palo Alto patent and trademark boutique Hickman Coleman &am...

Jostra AG has completed a purchase of the Bentley Cardio Pulmonary Division of Edwards Lifesciences Corp. The deal is valued a...

James Brosnahan, a partner at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, has been honored with the Samuel E. Gates Litigation Aw...

Minor slights and changes in employment conditions are not actionable discrimination. ...

Joel Mark, of-counsel to Oxnard's Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton, has been appointed to the California State Bar Committee...

Frederick Allen and Michael Matkins, name partners at Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, have earned the ti...

The Alliance for Children's Rights, an organization that provides free legal representation and social services referrals to c...

The Los Angeles City Ethics Commission will hold a public hearing Thursday to receive comment on a proposal to require officeh...

Call him shy, call him modest. Either way, Rod Berman refuses to talk about himself. When asked about his most recent deal for...

Richard Mosk, a name partner at Century City's now defunct Sanders Barnet Goldman Simons & Mosk, has become a full-time me...

After 13 years away from California, John Grosvenor returned on Nov. 1 as a corporate partner in the Los Angeles home-office o...

Former Immigration and Naturalization Service official Allen Erenbaum has joined Mayer Brown & Platt as a senior associate...

The fifth annual "Vision in Philanthropy Awards" were hosted by the Freeman Freeman & Smiley Foundation Nov. 2 in Beverly ...

Statutes and regulations have too many words, too many convolutions and redundancies, too many exceptions to exceptions. Democ...

Lance LaBelle is making a comeback - a musical comeback. "For years the lawyer has consumed the musician," says LaBelle, a par...

Semiconductor production equipment maker Novellus Systems Inc. is acquiring GaSonics International Corp., a maker of semicondu...

Two mediators are moving up in the world, literally. Charles G. Bakaly Jr. and former U.S. District Judge John G. Davies are m...