DENVER - Qwest Communications International will pay nearly $2 million in damages and restitution for alleged deceptive market...

SACRAMENTO - The presiding judge of Sacramento Superior Court is a climber. At age 53, he's one of the youngest presiding judg...

Focus Column - By Richard Chernick - Drafters of arbitration clauses are sometimes careless in identifying how the contemplate...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - When Tina Cox took a job at Coca-Cola's Rancho Cucamonga distribution center, she said, her supervisor told...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death sentence of a former Los Angeles nurse who could become ...

SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield ended their third day of deliberations Monday without deciding the gui...

OAKLAND - Judge Steven A Brick has some succinct advice for attorneys who appear in his courtroom: "Have a very good idea of w...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man who is not related to four young girls whom he molested but served as the "functional equivalent" of a g...

WASHINGTON - California lawyers' concerns about the American Bar Association's first guidelines on multijurisdictional practic...

LOS ANGELES - Latino advocates filed an appeal Monday in federal court requesting that the U.S. Supreme Court reconsider the d...

Forum Column - By Hiram Torres - A new piece of legislation that likely will substantially restrict public access to certified...

SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech does not give a graduate student the right to a passing grade on a master's thesis that is academi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech does not give a graduate student the right to a passing grade on a master's thesis that is academi...

WASHINGTON - California lawyers' concerns about the American Bar Association's first guidelines on multijurisdictional practic...

SAN JOSE - Veteran litigator James P. Kleinberg, who has worked for more than three decades handling commercial lawsuits invol...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Judge Donald G. Umhofer, who enjoys a reputation as an evenhanded jurist with a willing ear, unwinds on week...

LOS ANGELES - In a possible sign of things to come in the era of corporate accounting scandals, the San Francisco business law...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday protected hospitals from emotional distress suits filed by relatives of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marisa Arrona, one of seven summer associates at Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft this year, expected to be wine...

Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - In a recent case, a wife's insistence on a postnuptial agreement ca...

Dicta Column - By Paul French - Lawyers seeking electronic evidence through the discovery process cannot do so in the traditio...

Forum Column - By Sanjay M. Ranchod - Two weeks ago, Gov. Gray Davis signed landmark legislation that will require automakers ...

Dicta Column - By Paul French - Lawyers seeking electronic evidence through the discovery process cannot do so in the traditio...

Forum Column - By Hiram Torres - A new piece of legislation that likely will substantially restrict public access to certified...

Scott Packman has become senior vice president and deputy general counsel of Santa Monica's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. P...

Associate Judge Carlos Moreno of the California Supreme Court will be the keynote speaker Sept. 20 at the Association of Busin...

Two California high-tech companies are prepping for a Texas shootout in a patent infringement trial in a Houston courtroom. ...

Prominent entertainment and business litigator John Gatti has joined Santa Monica's Alschuler, Grossman, Stein & Kahan as ...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Recent stock market troubles cannot help but create new golden opportunities for Californi...

San Diego's Klinedinst, Fliehman & McKillop has added two litigators to its month-old Los Angeles office. Partner Neil Gun...