SAN FRANCISCO - In another complication for an already long-delayed case, former chief assistant public defender Jeff Adachi h...

SAN FRANCISCO - The year 2000 appeared tailor-made for the San Francisco Bay Area's legal dealmakers. And a dozen firms in all...

SAN FRANCISCO - Is technology changing the law? It sounds like a rhetorical question in the age of the Napster case, but if th...

^^Court Jesters^^ In Hall v. Mooring , 76 S.E. 759 (1912), Judge James Robert Pottle held the following for the court: This w...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Daily Journal has won two top awards in the Associated Press News Executives Council Newswri...

In January, there were five Court of Appeal opinions interpreting California's SLAPP statute. ...

Anti-affirmative action Proposition 209 aimed at eliminating programs that have increased access for women and minorities. Its...

VENTURA - Disregarding his last-minute claims of innocence, a jury Monday recommended a death sentence for a Ventura skinhead ...

LOS ANGELES - In theory, L.A.'s chief of police could receive a range of punishments - from 10 days' suspension to termination...

INDIO - A man facing a possible death sentence for killing an elderly man in a home-invasion robbery has fired both of his cou...

SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Paul Pfingst's top aide disciplined former chief economic fraud prosecutor Peter Longanbach in 1...

SAN FRANCISCO - Drunkenness is not a defense to arson, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday. The justices held that arson...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for Diane Whipple's partner filed a wrongful death suit Monday that would require the San Francisco ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After four years of delays, the notorious "Pink Tarantula" case went to trial Monday in San Francisco. Two men...

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood got some good news Monday from a Louisiana district court in Tangipahoa Parish. In a major and perhaps...

LOS ANGELES - Statements made by a mentally disabled Glendale man are inadmissible in his upcoming trial on child pornography ...

SACRAMENTO - How far the state should go in collecting DNA samples from convicted felons, and how those samples should be used...

When it comes to partner mentoring for associates, more is better. Where one powerful mentor can provide many benefits, a netw...

Sunnyvale's Finisar Corp. will buy Dallas's Marlow Industries Inc. The cash and stock deal is valued at $300 million. Finisar ...

In the spirit of Fat Tuesday, 400 revelers kicked up their heels and opened their wallets at the Justice Allen E. Broussard Me...

Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May put down roots for an intellectual property practice in its Southern California office...

One big, happy family. Those are hardly the words used to describe most law firms today. Yet, that is precisely what the attor...

'Location, location, location." The phrase is usually applied to the most important factors for real estate and restaurants. R...

These are happy times for Bob Buell, managing partner of San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps. His firm is doing gr...

Siemens AG has agreed to acquire Efficient Networks Inc. in a cash deal valued at approximately $1.5 billion. Siemens, based i...

In our last column, we chronicled the legal strategy of Martin D. Singer of Lavely & Singer. Singer is the press lawyer fo...

Less than six months after wishing his Fish & Neave partner Vicki Veenker well on her move to Shearman & Sterling, Ed ...

Santa Clara's National Semiconductor Corp. has bought San Diego's InnoCOMM Wireless Inc. The cash deal is worth $130 million. ...

SACRAMENTO - The state Senate author of a bill to clean up Proposition 34, the voter-approved campaign finance initiative, has...

San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop started March with eight additions in two California offices. Seven of the lawyers came fro...