WASHINGTON - Issuing two unanimous bankruptcy decisions Tuesday, the Supreme Court strengthened the hands of state taxing auth...

A special agent with the Anti-Smuggling Unit of the Immigration and Naturalization Service pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charg...

Deals: Conexant Systems Inc., a semiconductor provider based in Newport Beach, has acquired Applied Telecom Inc. of Lisle, Ill...

SAN JOSE - Lawyers for Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, who had asked for up to $1.5 million in attorney fees for the...

Practitioner: Antitrust Law By Ralph C. Hofer On April 3, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson entered the court's conc...

Deals: Discovery Partners International Inc., a pharmaceutical and biotech research-product provider based in San Diego, has a...

The Adviser By David P. Schack The California Supreme Court's decision in Buss v. Superior Court, 16 Cal.4th 35 (1997), was r...

Dicta: By John H. Sullivan The 1990s set highs in frivolous lawsuits and runaway jury awards. The Civil Justice Association of...

RIVERSIDE - Former Temecula Mayor Steven Ford pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges that he voted to approve a city c...

Orange County Superior Court Judge Pamela Iles, who founded her county's first domestic violence court 21/2 years ago, operate...

Deals: Vitesse Semiconductor Corps. has entered into an agreement to acquire Sitera Inc. The stock-for-stock transaction is va...

SACRAMENTO - A state appellate court has again reinstated two jury-imposed second-degree murder convictions in a 1996 Placer C...

SAN JOSE - California companies and their out-of-state competitors are racing to courthouses in legal battles over high-tech e...

Dicta: Movie Review By Stephen Zager Ancient Rome was a time of dictatorship and totalitarianism. One man controlled the laws ...

Virginia M. Simons, president of the California Association of Legal Document Assistants (formerly the California Association...

Often described as "boutiques," domestic violence courts have been established in a number of court systems throughout the cou...

Bottom Line: By Nader Anise In the often-misguided world of lawyer marketing, several schools of thought prevail: the "all I n...

RIVERSIDE - In a dramatic conclusion to the politically charged case of an abortion provider convicted in the death of a patie...

Sports: By Shirley Landau The A Division Championship was a very fast-paced game. The teams of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips a...

SAN FRANCISCO - When comedian Dana Carvey settled his multi million-dollar malpractice suit against a top Bay area heart surge...

A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge to the $206 billion settlement between the Big Five tobacco companies and 46 s...

For 10 years, Camarillo's Vitesse Semiconductor Inc. has depended on the versatile legal representation of Francis Currie, a c...

Los Alamos, N.M., residents who think the federal government is going to compensate them adequately after this month's devasta...

The Closer: By Arthur Gross-Schaefer Attorney burnout is a critical problem that needs to be addressed in a proactive manner b...

Deals: Santa Monica's X:drive Inc., which specializes in Internet storage and file-access services for global corporations and...

Deals: Bank of the Sierra, headquartered in Porterville, has acquired Bakersfield's Sierra National Bank. The value of the dea...

Deals: Internet imaging company Xippix Inc. has acquired Cafex Corp., a Larkspur-based company that designs and develops datab...

Forum: By Robert A. Levy No, Congress didn't authorize a Food, Drug, and Tobacco Administration. Despite the Clinton administr...

Firm Watch: Chicago-based Winston & Strawn has added three more partners to its Los Angeles office: commercial litigators ...