SAN FRANCISCO - Wanted: A good communicator with an understanding of the problems faced by minority lawyers. ...

WASHINGTON - With Republicans in charge, Congress didn't spend much time on a proposal to make criminals out of corporate exec...

SAN JOSE - Attorneys working for corporate giants in California found themselves in hot water in 2006, and in some cases, they...

SAN JOSE - The credibility of the special panel that investigated Apple Computer's stock-option-granting practices may influen...

Lawyer Complements Her Practice With Weekly Sessions After Work Twisting and Twirling Upside Down While Hanging From Silk Shee...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Lisa M. Martens and Gregory M. Krakau - Trademark counterfeiting reaches much further than watches, but new ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Andrew Bruck and Perrin N. Wright - Stanford law students report immigation law problems from the trenches. ...

The Orange County Superior Court seeks applicants to serve on the 2007 Orange County grand jury. ...

VISALIA - For 75 years, Brad Stark's family had been affiliated with Sunkist Growers Inc., boxing and shipping oranges, tanger...

Doe v. Kamehameha Schools, 2006 U.S. App. Lexis 29810 - In an 8-7 ruling, the court upheld a private school's admissio...

WALNUT - As long-jumper Tameisha King warmed up for a punishing training session at Mt. San Antonio College's track, she play...

LOS ANGELES - When Kal Raustiala was asked to become director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations,...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 2006, the highest court in the West dealt with more than 16,000 cases, issued a number of important opinion...

SAN DIEGO - Going to law school on top of a full-time career is demanding. Add caring for infant twins, and it might seem impo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pay us more, says Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Michael Risher - The homeless in Fresno won a key victory against govrnment destruction of their property. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For Kathryn J. Zoglin, a deputy county counsel in Santa Clara, it's not enough to lend her Ivy League pedigree...

Christmas Timing: Editor Peter Blumberg notes that a holiday weekend provided the 9th Circuit with a convenient distraction. ...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips elected nine partners in the firm's Los Angeles and Palo Alto offices.

LOS ANGELES - Long before Tricia Ann Bigelow became a judge, she worked as a waitress at Bobby McGee's in Newport Beach. They ...

With no political connections and a clerkship with a well-known liberal U.S. Supreme Court justice topping his resume, Contra ...

The battle over immigration reform has moved from Capitol Hill to the fields and factories that rely heavily on immigrant work...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Richard Chernick - There is no more contentious issue in arbitration than the entitlement to and proper scop...

FORUM COLUMN - By Lynn Duryee - The child custody trial is a stressful, unrewarding experience for litigants, lawyers and judg...

SAN DIEGO - Just the thought of seeing "Apocalypto," Mel Gibson's violent new epic about the decline of the Mayan empire, is e...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the storied, sometimes violent and always complicated history of California's relationship with water, 2006...

A Santa Clara County judge awarded $2.8 billion in damages to a Hong Kong company Wednesday after its contracts with a Bay Are...

FORUM COLUMN - By Nora Quinn - I'm sitting in a courtroom in the Mosk Courthouse, and there is a lawyer talking who looks like...

LOS ANGELES - Before Jose Beas was arrested, he worked in a factory that made car rims. Before he was accused of being a child...

Elizabeth Ann Brem, a 35-year-old Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner who followed an incredible path of legal achievement fro...