Focus Column - Employment Law - By Mark L. Eisenhut - In the world of class actions, one new trend is the increase in actions ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Helene J. Wasserman - Many employers in the retail and hospitality industries provide incen...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - One of the low points on the California legal scene in 2003 was the blow dealt the Boy Scou...

SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Jerilyn Borack loves to sail, but being landlocked in the heart of California's food basket ...

LOS ANGELES - Funeral services are scheduled for today for Arne Lindgren, a partner at Latham & Watkins specializing in ta...

LOS ANGELES - For Ted McAniff, it all comes back to the voices: the soaring swell of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, its membe...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Malcolm H. Mackey loves being on the fast track. Having done "just about everything in the court system," ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Other federal circuit courts have their five minutes of fame, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is nev...

SAN FRANCISCO - James Rogan, who has earned praise and criticism since he took the post of director of the U.S. Patent and Tra...

Notebook - By Hudson Sangree - SACRAMENTO - First it's there. Then it's gone. Then it's back. But not for long. So goes the sa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Loretta Lynch sat glumly in the courtroom of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali last week, trying to orchest...

When 2003 began, Los Angeles-based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips had no lawyers in New York City, arguably the co-capital of A...

KINGS COUNTY HANFORD - Just in time to reap the benefits of the holiday bounty, Passco Real Estate Enterprises Inc. has acquir...

Focus Column Employment Law By Dominick C. Capozzola A state Court of Appeal recently upheld the termination of a sales manag...

FORUM A study in the Santa Clara Law Review concludes that California's system is seriously flawed and dangerously unjust. Pa...

By J. Kevin Lilly Lawyers are a lot like other people. When you fire them, they often get angry and frequently sue for wrongf...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arrived like Santa on Christmas Eve for the city of Martinez. In a unan...

FRESNO - An album cover of "Pope John Paul II Sings at the Festival of Sacrosong" adorns the windowsill in the chambers of Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Steinhart & Falconer, a small but nationally recognized San Francisco business and litigation firm, will ...

WASHINGTON - Seth P. Waxman has had some remarkable experiences at the Supreme Court arguing 37 cases in the last decade. In D...

LOS ANGELES - A 60-acre dirt lot in Inglewood has become the latest front in the fight between the world's largest retailer an...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY WESTLAKE VILLAGE - A 6,616-square-foot area of Westlake Plaza I, the 2801 Townsgate Road business developme...

Big-name oil companies will spend almost $313 million to remove the gasoline additive MTBE from Santa Monica's groundwater und...

SAN FRANCISCO - A retrial of a case that has drawn the attention of the nation's gun makers and their opponents ended in a mis...

Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - One month California's car tax is tripled. Five months later the incre...

Forum Column - By Steven B. Katz - The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement has pulled the rug out from under practitioners...

Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - Last week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal criminal laws again...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - The Nov. 7 decision in Estate of Stone , T.C. Memo. 2003-309 (Nov. 7, 2003), confir...

SACRAMENTO - As a seasoned criminal court jurist with retirement on the horizon, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James ...

LOS ANGELES-Presiding Justice Roger W. Boren will take over as new administrative presiding justice of the 2nd District Court ...