SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati may have taken some of the wind out of the sails of this year...
Last week we witnessed a most unfortunate spectacle, which has taken the contentiousness in our political institutions to new ...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place in Washington, D.C., Wednesday for William F. Dwyer II, a former Beverly Hills attorney...
Leave it to New Economy companies to try to change the rules again. This time around they've convinced the U.S. Patent and Tra...
SACRAMENTO - A business lawyer, a developer and a one-time social worker are among the legislators appointed to the state Asse...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court has opened a Domestic Violence Clinic at the Inglewood Courthouse. The new clinic, wh...
Twenty years since the introduction of the 401(k) plan, employers and their workers are at a crossroads. This column will look...
Technology & Science
For Those on the Go, the Nearest Toilet Is Only a Few Clicks of the Hand-Held Away
By Andrea Rosas
The quest for the "killer" mobile application has sent wireless Web providers into a tailspin, trying to one-up one another in...
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. said this week that it is considering amending a merger agreement with Litton Indust...
Constitutional law scholars, lawyers and government officials will gather in February to discuss the implications of the recen...
You've spent your legal career practicing in state court. If you're not complacent, you're at least comfortable. You know what...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two dozen members of the Crissy Field Dog Group convened Wednesday night to plot how they would unleash their ...
SACRAMENTO - The chairman of the state Board of Equalization filed his own suit Thursday to challenge an $88.5 million fee awa...
VALLEJO - A defense lawyer at a death row habeas hearing Thursday moved to disqualify Solano County Superior Court Judge Frank...
Firm Watch
Squire Sanders: PRACTICE TAPS MOFO STAR FOR ITS OFFICE IN BAY AREA
By Staff Writer
Also on Jan. 2, environmental partner Kevin Haroff moved his Morrison & Foerster practice over to the San Francisco offic...
Under the doctrine of equivalents, a product or process that does not literally infringe a patent claim may nonetheless be fou...
Historically, Internal Revenue Service examiners were assigned to audit taxpayers in many different industries. On one day, an...
Although breaking up can be heart-wrenching, it can also be liberating and even quite lucrative - if you're a corporation. Spi...
With all the talk of defunct dot-coms and initial public offering riches turned sour, it was only matter of time before those ...
First impressions count, and how you decorate can make a difference in how clients perceive your practice. Office decor can ma...
It is essential for practitioners who draft license agreements that involve intellectual property to be familiar with Section ...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo wrote 66 years ago: "It is impossible in the nature of things for ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Chocolate-Colored Marbles Lead to Suit
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Chocolate might be hard to resist, but Deborah Hardaway says she found it hard, period. The 43-year-old Newport Co...
LOS ANGELES - Seventy-one members of a bicycle protest group who were arrested and strip-searched during the Democratic Nation...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County school district has sued one of its special-needs students, alleging it should not have to pay fo...
LOS ANGELES - Private citizens stepping forward to help foster children "find their voice" is the goal of a county mentorship ...
LOS ANGELES - Michael Emmick, who as former deputy to Kenneth W. Starr was the first federal prosecutor to question Monica Lew...
SAN FRANCISCO - Electric power wholesalers have conspired to create artificial shortages in the vast California market, illega...
SAN FRANCISCO - Not everybody, Felicia Marcus recently noted proudly, owns a Federal Highway Administration snow globe. But sh...
WASHINGTON - Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White testified Thursday that attorney general-designate John Ashcroft had di...