Your honor, we concede the signature on that document appears to be a forgery. And it sure looks like one of our clients did ...

Biggest Silicon Valley build-to-suit for 1999 Sobrato Development Cos. signed Exodus Communications Inc. to 10-year leases fo...

Off the skids The price was not high compared to other San Francisco transactions this year, but the $13 million sale of 989 ...

Bill Millichap poses an interesting question, via e-mail, for all to ponder as we continue to observe the allure of the Inter...

Mill Valley lawyer David Hobler picked up a heavy drinking habit around the same time he was urging courts to rehabilitate, no...

The California Insurance Commissioner announced Tuesday that any European insurance company that does not submit a list of al...

SACRAMENTO - Four or five candidates have emerged as potential successors to State Public Defender Fern M. Laethem. Lynne S. ...

Attorneys for former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army solider Sara Jane Olson filed three motions Tuesday in Los Angeles Su...

The federal government can impose some limits on the yearly back-country gathering of free spirits known as the Rainbow Famil...

SAN DIEGO - A couple are facing charges that could send the husband to prison because, prosecutors say, they pulled up the wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Significantly expanding Indian sovereignty, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that tribal courts have jur...

SANTA ANA - Orange County's Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a lease agreement that will allow the district attorney's o...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave no indication whether it will forbid public colleges and universities to use m...

Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks said Tuesday he would support a proposed ordinance banning the sale of ammunition. "I ...

Irene Gut Opdyke risked her life during World War II to hide a dozen Jews in the basement of the Nazi officer's home where she...

Bay Area real estate boom only now hitting northernmost counties By John McCloud Given their location so close to San Francis...

Services were held Monday for Raymond Berggreen, a pediatrician and then a lawyer for nearly 30 years. The medical malpractic...

All eyes were on ex-Playboy Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith over the past couple of weeks as she trekked to federal ba...

Thirty years ago today, the charter boat "Monte Cristo," with a small band of Indians aboard, motored across the chilly, chop...

WASHINGTON - Faced with widespread confusion in the lower courts, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider what burden of ...

By Tamara Scott At Cooley Godward, senior partners often sit around kitchen tables with 20-year-olds who share an ambition to...

By Sheila Kuehl I once was hired by a large, downtown Los Angeles law firm to conduct sexual harassment avoidance training fo...

Nonprofit gets $34.5 million in public bonds Though the Oddfellows Home of California considered various forms of financing t...

By Chris Ford Many long-time computer users have experienced the frustration of buying software, installing it on their machi...

Davis Polk BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANY ISSUES MORE STOCK South San Francisco-based Genentech Inc. has initiated a secondary offerin...

By Jeffrey Anderson In the 1980s, grandmothers Ethel Levitt, Grace Quinn and Ziva Naumann had an interesting reaction to Reag...

Below is a sampling of the Internet sites that discuss the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act. October 15 draft of...

By Charles R. Sutton When the conservatorship estate contains inventions, two different bodies of law are brought together, w...

After 13 years at Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger & Melnick, corporate partner Teresa Pahl will be leaving the San ...

SAN BERNARDINO - The county here will probably sue four former top county officials and three other men who have pleaded guil...