Judge Robert Yonts to Step Down From Santa Cruz Bench

LOS ANGELES - Bigger is apparently not always better when it comes to partners deciding their future.

SAN DIEGO - David B. Oberholtzer knew what it was like to be at the controls of a hot Navy jet as it hurtled off a carrier shi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cox Castle & Nicholson has big things to look forward to from its latest lateral coup. Edward A. Cherry, w...

LOS ANGELES - Cynthia Pasternak has always liked puzzles and mazes. The trick to mazes, she learned some years ago, is to star...

SAN BERNARDINO - They had achieved minor celebrity status, guest-starring on such television series as "That '70s Show," "The ...

A San Diego County woman's first-degree murder conviction was thrown out Thursday by an appellate panel that said there's a de...

If attorneys want settlement agreements reached during mediation to be enforceable, they must go beyond formulaic legalese and...

FORUM COLUMN - By Peter Scheer - An open letter to the judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: A three-judge panel of...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Sabrina A. Beldner, Jaffe D. Dickerson and John H. Lien - As corporate America strives to embrace diversity ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Karl Fleming - 'I may not be much, but I'm all I think about" is the self-mocking self-appraisal of a friend...

SANTA ANA - An unusual class action claiming Wal-Mart is responsible for "sweatshop" conditions at suppliers in five Third Wor...

WASHINGTON - Hollywood is starry-eyed at the prospect of Rep. Howard Berman, a Los Angeles Democrat, taking over next month as...

A national tort reform group put San Francisco and Los Angeles courts on a "watchlist" of the country's "Judicial Hellholes" a...

SAN JOSE - Hewlett-Packard Co. is looking for a new law firm to serve as its outside counsel after severing its long relations...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Leonid M. Zilberman - As employers look forward to 2007, what are likely to be the burning employment i...

Trinity's High Empty Country Begets Court of First-Name Familiarity

SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense attorney Nanci L. Clarence assumes the role of president of the Bar Association of San Franci...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Margaret Grignon and Zareh Jaltorossian - When a trial court denies a motion for summary judgment, absent a ...

SACRAMENTO - Ward Connerly, the father of California's ban on affirmative-action programs, announced Wednesday he will try to ...

BERKELEY - Hurricane Katrina was a disaster on more than one level. And for many it was also a wake-up call.

LOS ANGELES - A California Supreme Court ruling that restricted public access to police disciplinary records is being used to ...

LOS ANGELES - Leslie Caldwell stayed up late Tuesday night in her Embassy Suites hotel room in Washington, D.C., mulling what ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Kenneth G. Petrulis - A nondiscriminatory form of civil domestic partnership is the answer to family partner...

SAN FRANCISCO - Patent holders beware: Infringement is a state of mind.

LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica-based board games company Morning Star Games got a rude awakening late last week when it discovered...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR - I recently read Howard Privette's commentary regarding sentencing for securities fraud cases ("Sentenci...

VALLEJO - Solano County Superior Court Judge Robert S. Bowers' resume takes him from bartending in Aspen, Colo., to a top-secr...

SAN FRANCISCO - After two years of research, the state Supreme Court announced new guidelines Tuesday that will put significan...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Alan L. Friel - Not so many years ago, companies needed only to follow their own privacy policies to avoid r...