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The Advisor: By Michael J. Lawrence Today, more companies than ever are launching Web sites as the borderless nature of cybers...

Internet Business's International Inc. has acquired Atlas Capital Corp. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. ...

Forum: From the Tower By Ira L. Shafiroff Across the nation this coming weekend, thousands of men and women will be graduating...

The Advisor: By Robert Barnes For the past five months, cybersquatters-registrants and would-be resellers of Internet domain n...

SAN FRANCISCO - The makers of Kent cigarettes have settled a lawsuit brought by children of a longtime smoker after a jury awa...

The number of Rampart-related lawsuits filed against the city of Los Angeles claiming civil rights violations by police topped...

David J. Murphy , a senior partner in labor and employment law who practiced at Littler Mendelson 's San Jose office, has join...

RIVERSIDE - An appeals court has ruled that a stable owner caught in a custody dispute over a purebred Polish Arabian stallion...

The recall effort against three Marin County judges over family law issues isn't the only dispute fracturing the local bench a...

Palo Alto's Cooley Godward added two partners, Gary H. Moore and Harry Rubin , both of whom practice in the technology licensi...

SANTA ANA - A trial for a suspected accomplice in the February attempted murder of Biofem Pharmaceutical co-owner James Patric...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Judge Roderick Duncan heard about the recall campaign against three Marin County family court judges, his...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was a late afternoon last July when Robert Shreve heard the knock his probation officer had warned him abou...

SAN DIEGO - When Alan Bersin was selected as superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District in 1998, some found it an...

When Richard and Julie Licon bought a $500,000 townhouse in Orange County for them and their six children, little did they kno...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first judicial recall campaign in Marin County history seems reminiscent of the arena that spawned it: div...

We are living in the Age of Big: gazillion-dollar corporate pairings; cities that stretch for hundreds of miles. When the stoc...

Dicta: On 'The Practice' By Paul Harris In a powerful and well-researched episode, "The Practice" looks at the consequences o...

Forum: By Vernon Jarrett Nearly 150 years after the Confederate battle flag last flew above a rebel army, the meaning of that...

^^S/Ages^^ MICRA's Scope If examination shows that residential care facilities recklessly neglect an elder, emotional distress...

^^At Issue^^ BY DEBORAH ROSENTHAL The public's interest in seeing its laws followed is vigorously guarded, in part by the comm...

Forum: Justice for All By Phoenix Streets A war is being waged throughout California. At stake are people's homes - the havens...

Dicta: On 'Ally McBeal' By Renee Laurents Cybersex is freeware for the 1-900--addicted. Both phones and the Internet have come...

Armed with a humble attitude and a tale of misfortune, famed radical San Francisco defense attorney J. Tony Serra on Thursday ...

Practitioner: Environmental Law By William D. Wick The Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (LUST) program at the U.S. Environme...

Dicta: On 'Family Law' By Erin O'Bryan This week's "Family Law" had quite an attention-grabbing opener. We saw a Catholic prie...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rejecting a proposed $15 million global settlement for a potential class of 190 million people as unrealistic,...

By Deborah Rosenthal When Kermith Sonnier followed a reference to the Law Offices of Stephen Ball, he was looking for independ...

ADR PROFILE Victor T. Barrera By Rebecca Kuzins Judge Victor T. Barrera's all-night settlement conferences were legendary amon...