The letters page of the Daily Journal has recently been alive with the debate over same-sex marriage. This certainly reflects ...

Michael Farrell Named Top Judge Superior Court Judge Michael Farrell will be named Judge of the Year Thursday night by the San...

SAN FRANCISCO - Few issues have emerged in the race between the Oakland City Attorney Jayne W. Williams and her challenger, Ci...

With the advent of two recently signed laws, firms should consider carefully the possible downsides of using temporary employe...

DALLAS - The man likely to be president of the American Bar Association in 2001-02 intends to focus his term in part on making...

SANTA ANA - Two uncles of convicted cop killer John George Brown testified Monday that the defendant, soon to be sentenced for...

I am an unabashed fan of pleading motions - the demurrer or its cousin, the motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Proc...

A $40 million settlement proposal to resolve two lawsuits alleging that the city of Los Angeles is violating a federal overti...

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno's decision on whether to seek the death penalty against Buford Furrow is expected to be made...

Ever since Big Brother lost his day job behind the Iron Curtain, he's been looking for a full-time capitalist gig. Lately, som...

Former Pelican Bay prison guard David G. Lewis was convicted Monday of criminal violations of federal civil rights law in the ...

SACRAMENTO - As voters mull a plan to expand bad-faith insurance lawsuits, the debate over the proposal's arbitration provisi...

Noosh Inc. filed for an initial public offering of stock, to be worth a total of $58 million. Palo Alto-based Noosh supplies p...

iAsiaWorks has acquired Cupertino-based Web Professionals for an undisclosed combination of stock and cash. iAsiaWorks, with h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Louisiana-Pacific Corp. has agreed to pay $700,000, including fines and physical improvements at an aging part...

Fountain Valley Wins Mock Trial COSTA MESA - Fountain Valley High School was honored Wednesday for taking first place in the m...

Advertising-injury coverage may handle damages from trademark infringement. ...

NEWS Weston Benshoof lands real-estate attorney Pamela Privett as a new partner to build the firm's transactional practice. Th...

Public Interest Law Abuse Aid New Laws Protect Domestic Violence Survivors Section 3044 creates a rebuttable presumption that ...

DALLAS - Expanding his initiative to improve the diversity of the legal profession, the president of the American Bar Associa...

San Francisco's Wells Fargo will acquire the Escondido-based North County Bancorp for an undisclosed amount. The transaction h...

For the People By Jeffrey A. Lowe In a city of Dickensian extremes, nowhere is the difference between rich and poor more prono...

By Stacy D. Phillips Remember the old television series Perry Mason? Like many others of my generation who grew up during the...

SAN DIEGO - The scene was captured by news helicopters hovering overhead: Agents from the state's attorney general's office, ...

Thomas Umberg , former deputy director of the White House office of national drug control policy, has rejoined San Francisco-...

Six intellectual property attorneys from the San Diego office of Lyon & Lyon have joined Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison ...

Former President Gerald R. Ford came to speak to the civil defense bar about the economy Friday, but when the floor was open f...

SAN FRANCISCO - The final chapter closed quietly Thursday in the famed $1 billion-a-year sports bookmaking scandal that erupt...

San Francisco-based Business Engine Software Corp. has acquired Business Engine Software International, its European operation...

SAN FRANCISCO - Most people claim to know art when they see it, but a recently filed lawsuit asks an intriguing legal questio...