LOS ANGELES - In 15 years of practicing intellectual property law, Latham & Watkins partner Roxanne Christ has drafted cou...

Focus Column - In In Re Marriage of Nelson, 139 Cal.App.4th 1546, 44 Cal.Rptr.3d 52 (2006), the 6th District Court of A...

WASHINGTON - Los Angeles-based federal Judge Manuel L. Real is now officially public enemy No. 1 in Congress' ongoing war agai...

LOS ANGELES - In a surprise move, a Los Angeles federal judge has decided to preside over the Milberg Weiss criminal case desp...

LOS ANGELES - A group of 19 Mission Viejo homeowners must pay more than $500,000 in attorney fees to a concrete supply company...

Forum Column - The annual Erotica LA retail extravaganza that wrapped up June 25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center highligh...

SAN JOSE - A Minnesota company is trying to lift the veil on the identity of an individual who it claims revealed its trade se...

SAN JOSE - A federal judge has put Rambus Inc., a Los Altos-based company that licenses its patents to semiconductor memory ch...

SAN FRANCISCO - In Oakland, a city of 400,000 people, there are more than 900 places to buy alcohol.

Forum Column - We all live in Justice Anthony Kennedy's world now, at least those of us who practice environmental law. ...

LOS ANGELES - Race played no part in federal prosecutors' decisions to seek the death penalty in the Clinton administration's ...

Focus Column - Approximately one month ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in the consolidated cases of Rapanos v. ...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time in a long time, plaintiffs' and defense lawyers in the securities bar found a decision they b...

LOS ANGELES - After producing NFL starts such as Dante Hall and Quentin "Q" Griffin from a tiny town in Texas, high-school foo...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley is considering resurrecting his proposal to break up the state...

WASHINGTON - The court conservatives love to hate will take center stage in Congress later this week.

SAN FRANCISCO - Winston & Strawn's San Francisco office reeled in yet another big catch last week, adding a prominent tax ...

SANTA ANA - One of the state's most prolific filers of suits alleging violations of handicap-access laws has lost at trial and...

SAN FRANCISCO - The secret that everyone knew and joked about is out: San Francisco's Hall of Justice is one insecure building.

LOS ANGELES - The Palo Alto-based law firm Cooley Godward is in merger talks with Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan, a 90-a...

LOS ANGELES - As the deputy city attorney whose job is improving everyday life in the 14 square miles making up the Los Angele...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the weeks ahead, a Contra Costa jury will decide whether 17-year-old Scott Dyleski is a troubled young man ...

LOS ANGELES - Some lawyers prepare for retirement by purchasing sailboats or houses in Hawaii. Roy Wuchitech spent the last th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gidon M. Caine attended a Jones Day partnership retreat at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel last month while th...

Focus Column - On public-policy grounds, the California Supreme Court confirmed the right of consumers to file putative classw...

On the Move - Seyfarth Shaw has added David B. Roseman and Mark Mengelberg as partners to the firm's San Francisco office.

Forum Column - Beginning in 1994, California began a crackdown on juvenile crime. The age at which juvenile offenders could be...

SAN FRANCISCO - Court-appointed appellate counsel representing indigent defendants in criminal and juvenile cases will get a $...

SAN FRANCISCO - Following months of frustration trying to get a global compensation practice off the ground at a national law ...

Forum Column - Approximately 13 years have passed since the Bay Area legal community was shaken by an assault-weapon massacre ...