Focus Colum - By Greg Short - Whether negotiating an information-technology outsourcing contract or a business-process outsour...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yet another legal scholar is heralding the demise of copyright law as we know it. And if there's anything to t...

RIVERSIDE - Accused murderer Robert Lee Williams has managed to delay his trial for seven years, burning through four lawyers ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A defining moment for Associate Justice Maria P. Rivera of the 1st District Court of Appeal came at the Broadw...

LOS ANGELES - South Korean citizen Je Ho Lim, frustrated in his attempts to purchase the "Golf.TV" domain name from California...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Monday approved a Proposition 65 settlement with the maker of valves used in water pipe...

LOS ANGELES - A Monterey Park attorney faces trial on charges he tried to extort money from a San Gabriel businessman. At the...

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, facing a second set of misconduct...

SAN FRANCISCO - Vowing to restore pride to the California legal profession by the end of 2003, James E. Herman of Santa Barbar...

WASHINGTON - In the second decision in two weeks that could reduce the number of executions in this country, the U.S. Supreme ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has dismissed criminal charges against seven Iranian immigrants accused of soliciting money for ...

Column by Garry Abrams - Pint-size, jug-eared Texas billionaire Ross Perot could become the Great Satan - or at least the Mart...

Focus Column - By Alison P. Adema - The extraterritorial application of a statute involves the regulation of conduct beyond U....

SAN DIEGO - Dog hairs and carpet fibers found in David A. Westerfield's motor home and his Sabre Springs house link the 50-yea...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Montgomery, co-chairman of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's 56-lawyer business and technology practice i...

SANTA ANA - Though Orange County Superior Court Judge Nancy Wieben Stock has been on the bench for more than 12 years, her end...

NEWPORT BEACH - After eight years of practicing as an in-house attorney at medical companies, Robert C. Funsten has returned t...

Forum Column - By Mark Schlosberg - On June 9, following a 17-year legal battle to obtain information under the Freedom of Inf...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court Monday upheld the right of employers to consider age when deciding which benefits to g...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Monday ordered Genentech Inc. to pay $200 million in punitive damages to the City of Hope - f...

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - You might have read recently about the feng shui fiasco in Sausalito, where residents h...

Dicta Column - By Sharon Berman - Lawyers can learn valuable business development lessons from their marketing failures as wel...

Forum Column - By Cyrus S. Nownejad - The U.S. Supreme Court's majority ruling in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, wh...

CenterRun Inc. secured $12 million in its second round of funding. The deal was announced June 11. Crosslink Capital led the r...

Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley and Duane Morris have announced that they have elevated lawyers to partner status. At San Jo...

Nearly a year after instituting one of the largest layoffs in California law firm history, Cooley Godward has implemented anot...

Holme Roberts & Owen , a 200-attorney firm based in Denver, is following its largest clients to the Bay Area. Kenneth Lund...

Wendy's International Inc. has agreed to acquire Fresh Enterprises Inc., the parent company of Baja Fresh Mexican Grill. The a...

Six months after a merger deal between Piper Rudnick and San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen collapsed, the Ch...

Yum! Brands Inc. and Favorite Restaurants Group have teamed up to offer Yan Can Restaurant, named after Martin Yan's televisio...