SACRAMENTO - Urging changes in the state's "overly complex and unduly burdensome" campaign reporting rules, a special commissi...

A telltale sign that a child is destined for law is billing both mom and dad for the weekly allowance. By The Rodent. ...

Should Orange County voters decide if the county gets a new airport, jail or landfill? Or should the Board of Supervisors have...

Former District Attorney Ira Reiner, who conceded the election to District Attorney Gil Garcetti in 1992, has given his endors...

The authors of a report that criticizes the Los Angeles Police Department for fostering lawlessness among its officers, protec...

A U.S. Customs agent and his brother have pleaded guilty to federal charges for smuggling 15,000 counterfeit Microsoft softwar...

A North Hills man pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor federal hate crime charge for spray painting swastikas and other whit...

SANTA ANA - A former computer systems manager at the University of California, Irvine, police department has filed suit, alleg...

Remember the V-chip? I thought not. For those who are drawing a big, fat blank, the V-chip is a microchip that is required by ...

INDIO - A judge Monday upheld a new tort of intentional endangerment of a child in the case of an 8-year-old girl suing a taxi...

Juvenile authorities labeled him an "incorrigible juvenile delinquent" and a "hard-core recidivist," but a simple act of faith...

More than 1,600 plaintiffs' attorneys came home from Las Vegas this weekend with inspiration and information to keep them goin...

Montenegro continues the trend of reinforcing and tightening the changed-circumstances requirement. ...

By Victoria Newman and John Ryan. Menlo Park's Deltagen Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $105 million. The compan...

SAN JOSE - In a rare trade secrets misappropriation case targeting a lawyer as the defendant, a veteran Palo Alto patent atto...

By Liz Valsamis. Nervous new attorneys can rest a little easier because California's top law firms are preparing to roll out t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Rosa family law attorney who admitted stealing more than $100,000 from divorce clients has been senten...

San Jose's Adobe Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Boston-based Glassbook Inc. The value of the deal was not disclosed. Adobe...

Inventa Technologies Inc. has applied for an initial public offering worth $39 million. The Redwood Shores Internet services c...

Washington, D.C., lawyer Greg Rubis is settling into his new practice in the Palo Alto office of Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps &a...

Internet network checker Ixia has filed an initial public offering worth $57.5 million. Ixia, based in Calabasas, designs inte...

By Jeffrey Anderson. While summer associate programs are a rite of passage for elite law students, this year's recruiting ritu...

Wireless phone maker Motorola Inc. is acquiring Printrak International Inc. for $160 million cash. Motorola of Schaumberg, Ill...

By Jeffrey A. Lowe. In today's newspapers, there is often an article about an athlete in trouble with the law. This is due in ...

By Xenia P. Kobylarz. As people grow more comfortable using the Web, it comes as no surprise that the Internet is now the firs...

By John Ryan and Victoria Newman. First-Year Blues: A fear of professional failure unites most young associates; but, hold on,...

Australia's Foster's Brewing Group Ltd. has bought California's Beringer Wine Estates Holdings Inc. The combination stock and ...

By Melissa Onstad. California summer associates spent a lot of time attending firm-sponsored events rather than long hours in ...

Bob Gunderson of Menlo Park's Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian began the Associate Salary Wars tha...

By Zoe Overbeck. He remembers when that first indelible impression was made. He was a 12-year-old at the New York World's Fair...