Coins in a fountain became a wish fulfilled for Santa Barbara County Superior Court Presiding Judge J. William McLafferty.

Maya Lakshmi Harris, new executive director of the ACLU of Northern California, admits that her job of overseeing multiple civ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda District Attorney Tom Orloff's top deputy, a woman, was quick to come to his defense after a veteran f...

SAN FRANCISCO - After litigating intellectual property matters for 28 years at a firm that has grown exponentially in head cou...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Cecily T. Talbert and Joshua Safran - Just when a Santa Barbara County developer thought it was able to go a...

SAN FRANCISCO - William B. Sechrest prefers to think of economics as the efficient allocation of abundant resources - as oppos...

On the Move ...

LOS ANGELES - More Southern California-based firms have raised associate salaries. ...

LOS ANGELES - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton picked up an environmental partner from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius this...

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 We...

No Professional Editing of Admissions Essays

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. ...