In a publicity coup for all parties involved, the New York-based Forbes magazine named three Northern California law firms to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A determined mediator, widespread publicity and a pending motion for class certification all pushed Providian ...

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After their firm decided to merge into Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld without them, the insurance group from Century City'...

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San Francisco's Union Square was at its merriest last month. The holiday decorations were up, and the trees were lighted. Stre...

What was once a perfunctory San Diego satellite office of Arter & Hadden has become a destination for several San Diego la...

SANTA ANA - As Orange County prosecutor Richard M. King prepares to take his newly appointed seat on the Superior Court bench,...

LOS ANGELES - After a long delay in filling empty slots on the state's courts, Gov. Gray Davis announced 16 year-end judgeship...

SAN JOSE - The legal battles between workers and their former employers in Silicon Valley usually take place in the technology...

SAN FRANCISCO - Controversial state regulations allowing auto insurance companies to base premiums largely on where drivers li...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners during 2000 managed to avert the kind of political struggle over t...

LOS ANGELES - Following up on an audit conducted about the time former Officer Rafael A. Perez allegedly stole cocaine from Lo...

LOS ANGELES - If Los Angeles had a person of the year for 2000, it likely would be Rafael A. Perez, the former Los Angeles Pol...

SAN FRANCISCO - Growing up in the shadow of the country's largest labor and employment law firm hasn't been easy, but Stephen ...

LOS ANGELES - As the Rampart police corruption scandal stewed, a slew of Los Angeles Police Department officers left the force...

Attorney Martin Webster remembers tough times during the Depression when his father scraped together enough money to make ends...

LOS ANGELES - Reversing a lower-court ruling, a state appellate court in Los Angeles has said a woman must pay half of the mor...

The '60s never seem to go away. Over the holidays, the Beatles topped the charts once again with a collection of their greates...

SACRAMENTO - California legislators who begin a new two-year session Wednesday anticipate debating a slate of bills to treat d...

LOS ANGELES - A year of turmoil in the Los Angeles criminal justice system likely contributed to the end of the 32-year prosec...

LOS ANGELES - Federal scrutiny of the Police Department occasioned by the Rampart police corruption scandal prompted some city...

Last summer's U.S. Supreme Court ruling permitting the Boy Scouts of America to discriminate against gay scout leaders may tur...

The new millennium didn't offer much for New Economy companies that tried to go public. "Let's just say I look forward to 2001...

A Harvard student discovers that top financial stories lend themselves well to a budding ironist's need to pen pithy parodies....

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has reappointed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Madeleine I. Flier to a new four-year t...

While the year 2000 ushered in a new millennium, it may have also kicked off a recession. The verdict on that is still out, bu...

SAN FRANCISCO - The employees of Animators at Law attended the company's best holiday party ever earlier this month, and to he...

In Stambovsky v. Ackley, 572 N.Y.S.2d 672 (1991), Judge Israel Rubin found the following for the court, in pertinent part: Pla...

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