For everyone who is fed up with the bombardment of laws in the 21st century, "The Beach" introduces the temptation of a more o...

By Boyd Hudson The end of every year leads to a rush of transactions that are often motivated by tax concerns. The year that j...

SACRAMENTO - The GOP presidential candidate who receives the most Republican votes in the March 7 primary is not unequivocally...

The campaign to ban the Harry Potter books fails to grasp their essential value: the benevolent depiction of a world in which ...

Vote "yes" on Proposition 30. The insurance companies' strategy to defeat Proposition 30 is no secret - spend, spend, spend al...

Ahda Sands Heads Langston Bar Ahda V. Carlisle Sands has been installed president of the Langston Bar Association. Also servin...

Cochran's Killer Faces 75 Years A reputed gang member was convicted Monday of first-degree murder for the 1998 shooting death ...

The first stage of the balloting to elect a new Superior Court Executive Committee has resulted in the selection of 12 members...

A former in-house attorney for Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. claims in a lawsuit that she was fired in retaliation for taki...

WASHINGTON - For better or worse, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who taught at Harvard Law School for nearly 30 years, still has a...

SAN FRANCISCO - At one time in her career, Carol C. Yaggy thought she had a good chance of receiving a judicial appointment, e...

Just off the main highway on the way to Palm Springs, 38 babies lie buried in a peaceful cemetery called the Garden of Angels....

Name partner Bruce D. Tobey is leaving Century City-based Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey to join Santa Monica-based ...

Tim Crews is not a wimp. On the eve of starting a five-day contempt stretch in the Tehama County Jail in Red Bluff, the publis...

Vote "no" on propositions 30 and 31. A "no" vote will block a plaintiffs' bar plan that would drive up insurance costs, discou...

Among actions announced Monday by the justices were: GRANT DRUG TESTING: The court agreed to review next October a decision by...

A Chapter 11 "cramdown" plan that simply vests ownership in the prebankruptcy equity holders is doomed. By David S. Kupetz ...

Kirkland & Ellis THERMA-WAVE HEATS UP STOCK MARKET WITH IPO Therma-Wave Inc. successfully completed the final stage of it...

Four children and about a dozen Morrison & Foerster lawyers are clad in dashikis, kinte-cloth outfits, head wraps and oth...

LARGE FIRMS An often-overlooked exception in federal securities law allows the California Department of Corporations, rather t...

Silicon Valley: It's known as the technology center of America, as a region of industry, as one of the most expensive housing...

A San Francisco company that accuses priceline.com of stealing its reverse-auction, discount-travel business idea has expanded...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider whether two popular techniques used by police to seize illegal dr...

Tearfully apologizing for degenerating into a crooked cop, Rafael A. Perez, the former officer who blew the whistle on the Ram...

Inside a customized Winnebago resting on the edge of a Ventura County park, a college student scribbles on a standardized lega...

By James O. Goldsborough Will rising oil prices be the blade that slices our galloping economy? Closing in on $30 a barrel, oi...

Davis Polk ONLINE BROADCASTERS BEAM DEAL OUT TO PUBLIC Sunnyvale's iBEAM Broadcasting Corp. filed for an initial public offer...

Brobeck Phleger KANA COMMUNICATIONS NETS A SILKY ACQUISITION Redwood City's Kana Communications Corp. has agreed to acquire S...

INFORMATION SUPERMARKET No matter a company's size, having Internet presence will increase name recognition and likely improv...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former member of the BART Board of Directors has been sentenced to three years' probation and forbidden to h...