Web Exclusive - A federal bankruptcy judge said late Friday she is considering tossing out the Diocese of San Diego's bankrupt...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Longtime Oakland law firms Aiken, Kramer & Cummings and Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean...

Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - A man who had his image used on Taster's Choice coffee labels and ads without his permissi...

Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - Peter V. Allen, a former administrative law judge at the Public Utilities Commissi...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - Bill Callaham will jump off a 60-floor building just to prove he can and you can't. Or w...

Suspensions, Probations and Public Reprovals ...

Forum Column - By Cindy Cohn - The Bush administration's push to strengthen the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act flies in...

Forum Column - By Robert C. Fellmeth - The new rules being considered by the State Bar, which would mandate that lawyers discl...

California lawyers say workers' compensation reform has caused them to switch to other practice areas. Linda Atcherley is pres...

LOS ANGELES - In the clash between producers and distributors over residual payments, one entertainment lawyer is contending a...

MODESTO - In a case that could affect local elections throughout California, the city of Modesto is asking the U.S. Supreme Co...

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San Francisco Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith is understanding and respectful of trial lawyers - he was one for more than 20 years. ...

From her oceanfront courtroom, Los Angeles Judge Ramona G. See hears cases brought by everyone from angry surfers to disgruntl...

Troy Garren is suing Maric College because he spent three years training to be a radiological technician, only to find out the...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge disqualified Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy from defending Deutsche Bank in a case brought ...

Forum Column - By David V. Dilenschneider - A $5 million wrongful death case in Florida had to be retried when it was discover...

A buyer of a small business, using funds borrowed from a relative, finds the business is failing shortly after purchase. He cl...

LOS ANGELES - The $3.2 million verdict handed down this month in favor of Alan Ladd and Jay Kanter against Warner Bros. marks ...

Forum Column - By Sid Leach - An Arizona court has taken the long-overdue step of punishing individuals who try to live off of...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is almost 10 years old, and the rules of the information superhighway are more confusing ...

Focus Column - By Elisa Paster and Niyati Vyas - The state Supreme Court gives cities the green light to dole out business adv...

Paul L. Krentzman attended law school because he wasn't interested in science and "wasn't good at fixing things." It turns o...

SAN FRANCISCO - During the last 25 years, earthquakes, fires and winter storms have caused the city of Oakland to be declared ...

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - California employers who want to stay on the right side of the law need to brush u...

A little more than a year ago, three women brought a race class action against financial services giant Morgan Stanley. On A...

SAN FRANCISCO - Once upon a time, only the biggest law firms in the western world dared to set up shop in communist China. To...

Los Angeles-based attorney George Stephan is on a crusade to see that California's strict mediation confidentiality laws stay ...

LOS ANGELES - After helping secure a $36 million settlement for 300,000 people from the nation's leading bar review provider i...

SAN JOSE - The San Jose Unified School District announced at the end of July that it would take on the task of retrofitting th...