SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel Monday had harsh words and big sanctions for San Francisco lawyer Arlo Hale Smith, w...

LOS ANGELES - The young man stood shackled before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John Vernon Meigs, struggling to explain wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - The four-year investigation of alleged corruption involving former Ukraine Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko come...

New York's Shearman & Sterling opened its San Francisco office in 1979, making it one of the first nonindigenous firms to ...

The post-production house for actor Mel Gibson's hit film, "The Passion of the Christ," has come into a world of legal trouble...

Miami-based Greenberg Traurig expanded its reach in the state in February, opening offices in Orange County and the Silicon Va...

In the television series "Black Scorpion," billed as "Batman" meets "Baywatch," Michelle Lintel played the main character, "a ...

As any aspiring star or starlet will tell you, it isn't easy breaking into Hollywood. But one firm, Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman,...

Morrison & Foerster's Irvine office is without a project finance and development group after its only two members left to ...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Karen Kaplowitz - Give up random acts of charity. Stop buying tables at charity events that ...

Electronic design automation company Synopsys Inc. has agreed to buy Monolithic System Technology Inc. for $432 million in cas...

Steve Daniels was one of the many litigators who left Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison with intellectual property partner James...

A Santa Ana federal jury handed $1.9 million recently to a widow who says her business partner cut her out of their music-publ...

It's been a busy year for San Jose technology company NPTest Holding Corp. NPTest, a former unit of oil field services company...

After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, music and video retailer Tower Records is hoping its trip through court wil...

LOS ANGELES - A custom suit. Massage therapy. Free drinks. Teeth cleanings. Bags of cash. These are just a few of the ways Sou...

Column - Employment Law - By Steven M. Schneider - California firms generally go about their daily business of practicing law ...

Immigration lawyers crammed last month to get H1B visa petitions, reserved for highly skilled professionals in a variety of fi...

With Donna Melby's installation ceremony dubbed the Presidents' Dinner Dance, attendees at the Los Angeles Chapter of the Amer...

Ralph Alldredge didn't follow his partners at Legal Strategies Group to Townsend and Townsend and Crew, which absorbed most of...

While ostensibly a billion people sat glued to the Oscars on leap-year Sunday - either loving or hating Hollywood's glamour an...

SAN FRANCISCO - If San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wins the authority to interpret the Constitution as he sees fit, what next...

When Pillsbury Winthrop attorneys Nate Cartmell and Brad Kohn helped billionaire Phil Anschutz acquire the San Francisco Exami...

Column - Malicious Prosecution - By Susan Page White - When people are sued, they typically are relieved if their insurer pote...

Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd. won a summary judgment in federal court recently in a patent infringement case file...

Bank of America agreed this month to a $33 million settlement for a class action brought by 2,600 beneficiaries of trust accou...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Jeffrey Brill - The patent statute includes an often misunderstood requirement that a patent sp...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The war against world hunger is facing a major battle in this country, as the Bush adminis...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Julia Lapis Blakeslee - Most people assume that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act pr...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin Lager has told lawyers in the massive Southern California clergy sexual ...