Attempts at the state level to put an end to race-based policing remain caught in the swirl of local politics. Late last week,...

After spending 28 years at Los Angeles-based Tuttle & Taylor, senior tax partner C. David Anderson has defected to Los Ang...

Firm Watch: San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster continues to expand its presence in San Diego by recruiting Craig A. Schlo...

The Los Angeles County alternate public defender's office said Friday that prosecutors have rejected its request to soften the...

Firm Watch: Century City's Irell & Manella has recruited Eric Suddleson , former head of business and legal affairs at Los...

SACRAMENTO - The grim scandal involving 5,000 sets of cremated human remains found in a Contra Costa storage locker in 1997 ha...

Flamboyant Los Angeles trial attorney Pierce O'Donnell and his firm of jugular-fixated young Turks had a huge week last week. ...

Forum: By Elizabeth J. Cabraser Remember that intolerably bright kid in law school - the one who delighted in perverse argumen...

U.S. Supreme Court Column: WASHINGTON - If lawyers want to know how to tick off the Supreme Court justices, they should ask Fl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Troubled Pelican Bay State Prison came in for sharp criticism from a court-appointed monitor this week for its...

Dicta: On 'Ally McBeal' By Renee Laurents The season finale deserves a curtain call. This blend of Broadway musical theater an...

Practitioner: Criminal Law By Alex Ricciardulli Proposition 21 is a potpourri of new laws, impacting many aspects of Californi...

Forum: By Dennis C. Jett After U.N. peacekeepers proved incapable of handling the chaos in Sierra Leone, Richard Holbrooke, th...

^^Feature^^ By Deborah Rosenthal According to Michael Wade, of Los Angeles' Demler, Armstrong and Wade, "the complexity of bad...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tosco Corp., which suffered one of the worst accidents in Northern California refining history when four worke...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Rosa family lawyer and two-time City Council candidate has pleaded no contest to charges that she stol...

Dicta: On 'Law & Order' By Judith B. Sklar. The prosecution sometimes need not look further than the victim's family and f...

^^LITIGATOR PROFILE^^ By Deborah Rosenthal Bernie Bernheim knew all his life he would be a lawyer. His great grandfather was a...

^^KEYS TO VICTORY^^ Mark P. Velez, an employment litigator with Concord's Velez and Velez, won $ in Ralph S. Baker v. Buffingt...

^^LITIGATOR PROFILE^^ By Deborah Rosenthal Michael E. Wade discovered his interest in the legal profession in an unlikely plac...

^^VIEWPOINT^^ By Kurt Osenbaugh It is a popular sentiment that jury verdicts are irrational, motivated by inappropriate sympat...

SANTA ANA - A declaratory relief complaint filed in Orange County Superior Court on Tuesday could have a significant impact on...

The Public Eye: By Ross Johnson Memo to all entertainment lawyers: When you're in your 70th hour of a 100-hour work week and y...

Forum: By Karleen George The real issue behind the Los Angeles Superior Court judges' decision to raise the salaries of some o...

The Alumni Association of Southwestern University School of Law honored a local lawyer and judge at its 13th annual awards rec...

Dicta: On 'Judging Amy' By Akilah Monifa Amy presides over a show-cause hearing to terminate the parental custody rights of Ru...

^^AT ISSUE^^ By Deborah Rosenthal On Jan. 17, 1994, at 4:31 a.m. , an earthquake that registered 6.8 on the Richter Scale rock...

^^VIEWPOINT^^ By Godfrey Isaac Mediators are catalysts for resolution. Subliminal stimuli influence behavior and attitudes, so...

SAN DIEGO - A veteran deputy district attorney who was the first witness in an unusual evidentiary hearing left no doubt about...

Dicta: On 'The Practice' By Paul Harris In the season finale Bobby Donnell and Lindsay Dole tie the marital knot with a ceremo...