SAN FRANCISCO - From the point of view of some of California's rarest creatures, home might appear to be getting a lot smaller...

SAN FRANCISCO - To kick-start a public dialogue about poverty in California's Central Valley, UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall has con...

MULTIFAMILY HUNTINGTON BEACH - Portico Seashore LLC sold the 64-unit Seashore Apartments at 19822 Brookhurst St. to the Von G...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - A strange thing happened to the city of Malibu. It thought it had settled years of conte...

Letter to the Editor - This is a comment on the Nov. 1 letter to the editor ("Union Reforms in Prop. 75 Benefit Members) writt...

Focus Column - By Jens B. Koepke - A fairly new and little-known statute provides that a plaintiff asserting a trade secret cl...

Forum Column - By Ruben J. Garcia - Imagine that you are on the board of an organization dedicated to broadening access to pre...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sideman & Bancroft, a boutique litigation firm in San Francisco, has brought on partners Emily Kingston, ...

LOS ANGELES - Robert R. Jesuele has joined the Century City office of Hogan & Hartson as a partner. Jesuele comes from th...

LOS ANGELES - Six months after the Kern School District stopped East Bakersfield High School students from publishing a serie...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eric Grover, the former managing partner of Littler Mendelson's San Francisco office, has left the firm and h...

LOS ANGELES - Six law firms in California have merged in the first three quarters of this year, matching the total for the sta...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has given a Folsom State Prison inmate a second chance at suing his former appellate law...

LOS ANGELES - Members of an association of Los Angeles County prosecutors are accusing their leader of cozying up to the depu...

MORE JUDGE TRAINING -- Trial judges may be going back to school. The Judicial Council of California has approved a model for m...

On The Move - Ropes & Gray has promoted firmwide seven associates to partner, including Gregory C. Davis in the firm's San...

Employment Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - This article shall explore some of the issues associated with defense mental exami...

SACRAMENTO - Phillip Wasserman wanted to support a Republican star. Ron Book was helping out a friend's in-law. And the partne...

SACRAMENTO - A tiny union that represents state lawyers and administrative law judges has ripped a seam in the tightly woven u...

LOS ANGELES - Mediator Stefan M. Mason has a knack for telling the right story at exactly the right time to ease tension in a ...

REDLANDS - When the American Civil Liberties Union threatened to sue Redlands last year, officials in the town southeast of Sa...

LOS ANGELES - A family has won a record $22.6 million settlement in a construction defect case that alleged toxic mold in the...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - In more than a third of new births in the United States, the mother of the child is a sing...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - One of the most persistent and contentious issues that the U.S. Supreme Court repeat...

LOS ANGELES - In her 20 years as deputy district attorney, Laura F. Priver focused her energy on arguing cases. After only 10 ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lost amid news of President Bush's $7.1 billion proposal to develop and stockpile anti-flu drugs and medicatio...

LOS ANGELES - Andrea Luquetta says the University of California Regents pulled a bait and switch: they hiked her UCLA Law Scho...

Fourm Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - In the summer of 1973, as the nation was about to become aware of a presidential scanda...

DISBARMENTS Gordon, Robert Lewis, El Cajon RESIGNATIONS Sheehan, Kenneth R., Las Vegas, Nev. Vitale, Angelo M., Sacramento SUS...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time in more than a decade, the National Bar Association is holding one of its annual gatherings ...