On the Move

Whether serving as 'air-traffic controller' for the North Justice Center or presiding over a DUI Court pilot project, Judge Do...

Recently elected Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bobbi Tillmon, a family-law commissioner for 12 years, finds that muc...

Stanford intellectual property expert Lawrence Lessig brokered a settlement between James Joyce’s heirs and a university colle...

Forum Column - By Elizabeth Byrne Debreu - A Superior Court judge got it all wrong in ruling that a historic-preservation ordi...

Focus Column - Unless a court order imposes a limitation, a litigant has the right to discover any nonprivileged relevant mate...

The city of Modesto has settled one gender-discrimination lawsuit but faces a similar legal battle in a suit that is set for a...

SAN JOSE - For the state attorney general's office, a Santa Clara County judge's decision last week to effectively kill its pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first time Alameda County held a civil domestic violence court, Chief Assistant District Attorney Nancy O'...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury has awarded $23 million in damages to a woman who suffered permanent brain damage when sh...

SAN FRANCISCO - When a major pharmaceutical company reached a settlement with about a million consumers who felt misled by a c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Not so fast, the California Supreme Court has warned banks that dip into customers' accounts to hold Social Se...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Semow, the prosecutor who tried Whitewater scandal figure Su...

LOS ANGELES - A judge on Thursday turned down a request by a man who was wrongly convicted of murder to see the transcript of ...

Employment Column - Employment litigation just got a lot tougher. A specialist provides guidance for defense counsel on how to...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's U.S. attorney during the Reagan administration is ready again to serve at the pleasure of the ...

In summer 1994, a smokestack on a Unocal Corp. oil refinery in San Francisco's East Bay spat a dirty chemical into the air and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named a gang prosecutor to the San Bernardino County Superior Court, one of the...

NORCO - State authorities are investigating a Norco grandmother for posting signs in her front yard protesting a next-door gro...

SAN FRANCISCO - California coastal regulators on Thursday charted a collision course with the U.S. Navy over the state's abili...

LOS ANGELES - David L. Neal, a former Los Angeles lawyer, has been named top U.S. immigration judge, ending speculation over w...

SAN JOSE - One day after ordering reporters out of his courtroom because they refused to sign nondisclosure agreements in orde...

Focus Column - By Patricia M. Lucas and Alex Ricciardulli - In the first of a monthly series of MCLE articles, two superior co...

Forum Column - By Dylan B. Carp - You want to be rough and tough in the courtroom, but be careful. Telling the judge what a je...

Interim Suspensions, Ethics Suspension etc.

An entrepreneur thought he had found the perfect platform to sell his mobile-networking company. But a host of legal concerns ...

Plaintiffs' lawyers enjoyed a sharp uptick last year in the size of securities class action settlements, negotiating an averag...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case have produced something they didn't believe existe...

Focus Column - By Peter C. Meier and Kamon D. Naddaf - A recent decision puts some reason back into California consumer law. ...

The state's Good Samaritan law may not protect a woman from liability who is accused of rendering her friend paraplegic when s...