Forum Column - By Glenn Sacks - The California National Organization for Women recently released its Family Court Report 2002...

LOS ANGELES - Replacing Robert B. Hubbell, who was promoted to firmwide managing partner in March, securities litigator Jerry ...

SANTA ANA - Seven law firms or retired judges have expressed interest in the job of reviewing and analyzing an Orange County g...

LOS ANGELES - After years of defending lawsuits claiming they exposed their guests to secondhand smoke, the California Hotel &...

SAN FRANCISCO - Associate Justice Linda M. Gemello keeps a combination gavel and kaleidoscope on her desk at 1st District Cour...

WASHINGTON - The political outrage over the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling declaring part of the Pledge of Allegianc...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city of Fresno has agreed to pay $1.95 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of an elderly man...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing a significant post-Sept. 11 drop in charitable giving, the Bar Association of San Francisco laid off 16...

SAN FRANCISCO - A confidential settlement has been reached between Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy and a Napa archite...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - A year ago, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Charles Kobayashi took a hard look at the C...

SAN JOSE - While in high school during the Vietnam War, Edward J. Davila met with his counselor, who told him that he - like o...

SAN DIEGO - A security guard held fast Tuesday to her assertion that David A. Westerfield drove his motor home into a luxuriou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Amid what's turning out to be a worse downturn in the technology sector than what optimistic executives and la...

Focus Column - By Stephen Danz and Stephen Gamber - The Italian dictator Mussolini was credited with organizing the Italian tr...

RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County Criminal Courts Bar Association denounced a prosecutor Tuesday for allegedly using inappropri...

Forum Column - By Ralph Barat Saltsman, Stephen Warren Solomon and Stephen Allen Jamieson - With a wink, many administrative ...

SAN DIEGO - A defense witness testified Monday that David A. Westerfield was "dirty dancing" at a Poway bar on Feb. 1 with Bre...

SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran Fresno County judge who recruited investors into a pyramid scheme has agreed to retire from the benc...

LOS ANGELES - A Palestinian man is facing six years in prison after pleading guilty last week in federal court to making threa...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel told border agents Monday they have authority to briefly handcuff ...

SAN JOSE - Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan caught some alumni flak but also picked up some donations after announci...

Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In In re Nicholas H., 2002 DJDAR 6249 (Cal. J...

REDWOOD CITY - Ethical qualms by San Mateo county psychiatrists have trumped a prosecutor's bid for a court order to administe...

LOS ANGELES - Ernani Bernardi, the 91 1/2-year-old former Los Angeles City Councilman who once was a saxophonist with the Benn...

SAN FRANCISCO - An employer who unsuccessfully appeals a labor commissioner's order to pay wages is liable for an indigent emp...

Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick and Scott Sobel - Today's reporting is becoming much more intense and cutthroat. Lawyers ...

Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - "Minority Report" presents a futuristic world where the guilty are punished b...

WASHINGTON - Listening to hour after hour of sometimes droning Supreme Court oral arguments and reading page after page of oft...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for w...

Los Angeles' Concerned Lawyers of California demonstrated its care in April by doling out money to local groups. The organizat...