Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The young National Guard officer curtly and sternly ordered my high-school buddies a...

Forum Column - By Leonard Edwards - This month, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges published "The Juveni...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - A married couple's estate plan may intentionally or un...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the El Dorado County bench's most beloved and esteemed jurists, Commissioner William H. Bradley, died ...

WASHINGTON - In a letter citing law and precedents, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday sided with th...

LOS ANGELES - Zachary Turke recalls the day a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton asked whether he had a passpor...

LOS ANGELES - Scott Burkholder was 6 when he made his stage debut in a play written and directed by his 11-year-old sister. "W...

LOS ANGELES - Law students know that long hours and often-mundane cases can make summering at a large firm no trip to the beac...

WASHINGTON - A John Roberts attack ad charging that the Supreme Court nominee supported violent anti-abortion activists has co...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday spurned a last-ditch effort by plaintiffs lawyer Pierce H. O'Donnell's...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Notorious runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks has been pushing a lawnmower under the Georgia sun this w...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court Wednesday waded into a snarling controversy - dogs on the beach - and overturned a cit...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ducked the state's most controversial political issue Wednesday by rejecting plea...

By Robert Friese - Until the recent past, when one spoke of "parallel proceedings" in the securities law context, the referenc...

By Susan S. Muck and Tanya Herrera - On May 31, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the conviction of Arthur Andersen ...

By William F. Sullivan and Tracey L. DeLange - For decades, federal securities class actions have imposed heavy costs on corpo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists and commercial fishing groups Tuesday launched a federal court challenge to government plans...

By Sarah A. Good - These days, directors and officers of public companies face increased risk of personal liability for their ...

MULTIFAMILY SAN MARCOS - A 72-unit apartment complex at 201-21 W. San Marcos Blvd. is off the market for $15.6 million. John L...

By Patrick J. Coughlin and Reed R. Kathrein - The plaintiffs bar can rightfully claim victory in the 9-0 opinion of the U.S. S...

By Nina "Nicki" Locker and Peri Nielsen - Section 304 is the provision in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that requires CEOs and CFOs t...

By Jeff Westerman, Ann Lipton and Kristen McCulloch - As Chief Judge William Young of the District of Massachusetts recently n...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - September 2005 marks the second anniversary of the California Judicial...

Letter to the Editor - I write in response to the article "Influence of Mysterious Legal Group Raises Eyebrows in Washington" ...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - "[N]othing in our opinion precludes any [s]tate from placing further restrictions on its...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gilbert C. Alston, who is credited with opening up the state's courts t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Fisher, a well-known San Francisco trial lawyer of the old school, died at home Friday of lung cancer. T...

LOS ANGELES - An increasing number of European companies are setting their sights overseas, snapping up U.S. companies at a ra...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has decided to get involved in a closely watched abortion dispute at the U.S. Supreme Co...

SAN JOSE - Three weeks after officially entering the 2006 race for Santa Clara County district attorney, Superior Court Judge...