FORUM COLUMN - By Laurie L. Levenson - A noted scholar and pundit highlights some of the judgment calls they don't teach you h...

The state Supreme Court on Thursday threw out Sacramento County's 2002 approval of a massive 22,000-home development in Rancho...

Police officers acted within the law by searching a man's car after an anonymous tipster told them the man had threatened him ...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Court Judge Dickran Tevrizian, who had emerged as a front-runner to become the next U.S. attorney ...

A state appellate court has rebuffed a San Francisco Superior Court judge's effort to assure better medical care for a convict...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Gregory Bergman and Kenneth Moscaret - You've let your client build a huge unpaid bill. That was a mistake. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An appellate justice is eating crow over a kangaroo court remark. ...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Leonid M. Zilberman - Like other issues in employment law, the question of how, and how much, to reimbu...

A nonequity partner in a law firm is an employee and therefore entitled to unemployment benefits, a state administrative judge...

SANTA ANA - In December 2003, President Bush signed a law to help consumers protect their credit reports. ...

California lawyers who allegedly fouled up their clients' cases took a beating from federal appellate judges Thursday, but not...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers at Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott were shocked this week to learn that Managing Partner Scott P. ...

SAN JOSE - A federal jury has awarded a Fremont-based technology company $74.7 million in damages after concluding that a comp...

SAN DIEGO - On the desk of Commissioner Pennie M. Carlos is a bulging yellow folder filled with sad life histories, written by...

George Smith, a former human resources executive, who switched careers five years ago, is among a growing number of nonlawyer ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Nora Quinn - We've all had them -- the depositions from the dark side. But what if your incoherent client sh...

A deputy attorney general who waged a protracted battle with the state over his firing - eventually winning seven years of bac...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert Harrison - It's simple interest, but a Superior Court commissioner writes that the calculations aren'...

LOS ANGELES - Services will be held Saturday for Ann King Cooper, one of the first nonattorney members of the State Bar Discip...

FORUM COLUMN - By Jason C. Rylander and Michael P. Senatore - The Supreme Court should reverse the EPA's recent position that ...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles filed a new plea agreement Wednesday with Steven G. Cooperman, a convicted fe...

SAN FRANCISCO - The question of who is responsible for the violent deaths of protesters and villagers living near Nigerian oil...

An Internet watchdog group has sued the Defense Department after government officials ignored the group's requests for informa...

FAIRFIELD - In the sometimes incendiary world of family law court, where Michael Mattice presides over a calendar of divorce, ...

Two years after a federal judge threatened to take control of California's prisons, a team of attorneys assigned to improve th...

Watch out veteran lawyers -- California's top young lawyers are playing key roles in mega-mergers, high-stakes litigation and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - National powerhouse firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius successfully has fended off conflict-of-interest charges ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Daniel W. Burkhardt has been named the new executive director of the Bar Association of San Francisco. He is t...

LOS ANGELES - Women's-clothing retailer Forever 21 was hit with a copyright-infringement suit Tuesday by a Fashion District fa...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Alan I. Cyrlin - The 9th Circuit's 2006 trademark decisions show that the little guy still may have a chance...