FORUM COLUMN - By Michael Rapkin - A San Fernando Valley real estate lawyer's odyssey representing a detainee turned out well,...

LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Glusker snagged trademark and copyright specialist Rami S. Yanni in an effort to expand its intellectu...

WASHINGTON - When the U.S. Supreme Court two years ago struck down mandatory federal guidelines on criminal sentencing, judges...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer wasted no time Friday coining the moniker "the Silent 11" for a group of fo...

WASHINGTON - A Louisiana federal judge on Friday cleared the way for Los Angeles trial attorney Pierce O'Donnell to proceed wi...

Life as a plaintiffs' attorney is entrepreneurial beyond the dreams of notoriously risk-averse defense counsel. ...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Elizabeth A. Lippitt is a cowgirl at heart. She has filled her Superior Court chambers in Van Nuys with W...

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FREMONT - After years of deciding criminal cases, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard O. Keller got a new assignment i...

Attorney General Jerry Brown signaled Thursday that he would rather reach a settlement than take auto manufacturers to trial t...

Long before her days reigning over Sonoma County's juvenile court, mediator Jeanne M. Buckley pursued an acting career. ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Laurie L. Levenson - A noted scholar and pundit highlights some of the judgment calls they don't teach you h...

The state Supreme Court on Thursday threw out Sacramento County's 2002 approval of a massive 22,000-home development in Rancho...

Police officers acted within the law by searching a man's car after an anonymous tipster told them the man had threatened him ...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Court Judge Dickran Tevrizian, who had emerged as a front-runner to become the next U.S. attorney ...

A state appellate court has rebuffed a San Francisco Superior Court judge's effort to assure better medical care for a convict...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Gregory Bergman and Kenneth Moscaret - You've let your client build a huge unpaid bill. That was a mistake. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An appellate justice is eating crow over a kangaroo court remark. ...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Leonid M. Zilberman - Like other issues in employment law, the question of how, and how much, to reimbu...

A nonequity partner in a law firm is an employee and therefore entitled to unemployment benefits, a state administrative judge...

SANTA ANA - In December 2003, President Bush signed a law to help consumers protect their credit reports. ...

California lawyers who allegedly fouled up their clients' cases took a beating from federal appellate judges Thursday, but not...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers at Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott were shocked this week to learn that Managing Partner Scott P. ...

SAN JOSE - A federal jury has awarded a Fremont-based technology company $74.7 million in damages after concluding that a comp...

SAN DIEGO - On the desk of Commissioner Pennie M. Carlos is a bulging yellow folder filled with sad life histories, written by...

George Smith, a former human resources executive, who switched careers five years ago, is among a growing number of nonlawyer ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Nora Quinn - We've all had them -- the depositions from the dark side. But what if your incoherent client sh...

A deputy attorney general who waged a protracted battle with the state over his firing - eventually winning seven years of bac...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert Harrison - It's simple interest, but a Superior Court commissioner writes that the calculations aren'...

LOS ANGELES - Services will be held Saturday for Ann King Cooper, one of the first nonattorney members of the State Bar Discip...