Forum Column By Fred Silberberg Mediation is quickly catching on in the family law community, and the courts are doing whateve...

By Liz Valsamis New York's Dewey Ballantine has elected Sanford Morhouse and Morton Pierce as co-chairmen of the firm, effect...

By Toni Vranjes Glacier Water Services Inc., an operator of water-vending machines, has acquired privately held Indianapolis ...

By Toni Vranjes Two Sunnyvale-based providers of network-security technology are joining forces. NetScreen Technologies Inc. ...

You know they're smart and powerful. And you know they're the most influential attorneys in the state.mmmm mBut you don't kno...

By Erik Cummins Robert Starzel's return to Holme Roberts & Owen is a homecoming of sorts. But it's been a while. After 27...

By Stefanie Knapp The American College of Trial Lawyers will induct a Canadian president for the first time in its 53-year hi...

By Toni Vranjes Creating a new media titan, NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment have agreed to merge in a mega-deal repor...

Outside, a revolution had occurred. An electorate made passionate by demolition democracy had cast its votes. The king was de...

By Stefanie Knapp Walk into any club and within a few minutes you'll hear someone ask the bartender for a Red Bull and vodka....

By John Ryan Better late than never may be a clichd sentiment, but it rings true to Arwa Farraj, the recent recipient of an $...

By Liz Valsamis Gordon & Rees has hired two partners in Los Angeles and one in Orange County. Shirley Deutsch and Robert ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Karl W. Jaeger, who has held nearly every job in a courtroom that can be held, retired Wedne...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda The 2nd District Court of Appeal is poised to answer the fundamental question of how to define mediation. ...

Wylie A. Aitken Name Partner, Aitken Aitken & Cohn, Santa Ana - A leading personal injury lawyer, Aitken represents the f...

By Tina Spee Described by colleagues as a "ball of fire," "tenacious" and "precise," Nedra Jenkins has ambitious plans in her...

Focus Column Criminal Law By Laurie L. Levenson A hot issue before the courts today is the scope of the "knock and announce" ...

Forum Column By Marjorie Cohn It defies logic to think that an administration as secretive as George W. Bush's would conduct ...

Forum Column - By Kent Scheidegger - During the recall election campaign, all eyes have been focused on the California governo...

LOS ANGELES - The rolling sickouts by sheriff's deputies that sent Los Angeles courts scrambling over the past month have "so...

SAN JOSE - Former Santa Clara County Deputy Public Defender Thomas Spielbauer should not avoid criminal prosecution for misle...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yuba County Superior Court Judge David E. Wasilenko, facing ethics charges that he helped friends and family ...

SACRAMENTO - A multimillion-dollar award in the state's first anti-spam lawsuit could help deter advertisers who clog compute...

LOS ANGELES - After almost 10 years of litigation, five judges, endless administrative hearings, appeals, delays and legal wr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A committee promoting the reelection of incumbent District Attorney Terence Hallinan falsely claims Assemblym...

SAN FRANCISCO - To blog or not to blog? That is the question for some lawyers, who wonder whether blogging will leave them ex...

Column By Garry Abrams In what would seem to be a case of cosmic legal coincidence worthy of "The Twilight Zone," two Los Ang...

SAN FRANCISCO - In defending Frank Quattrone, John Keker was up against more than an aggressive prosecution and a tough judge...

SAN FRANCISCO - One might suppose that lawyers, more than other professionals, know the cash value of their time. Why, then, ...

Employment Column By Kevin Lilly Amid the chaos of the state recall election, Californians might be forgiven for not noticing...