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...

LOS ANGELES - In a scathing rebuke of a Kern County trial court's decision to terminate dependency for a special-education tee...

LOS ANGELES - A dispute over ownership of a Picasso painting stolen by Nazis, which spawned a lawsuit that spanned three year...

Securities Law Supplement - Three years after the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act became law, practitioners are still sifting thro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wal-Mart Inc. ran into trouble Monday when it asked the 9th U.S. Circuit of Court of Appeals to throw out a c...

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney who led the losing legal challenge to the constitutionality of the California Coastal Commission...

SACRAMENTO - The state's schools superintendent and a teachers union sued Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Tuesday, claiming he viol...

LOS ANGELES - An inked merger between athletic shoe companies Reebok and Adidas is expected to face scrutiny by regulators in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel stepped in Tuesday to referee a war between Sacramento taxi companies fighting over ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Canadian company's $1 billion free-trade complaint stemming from California's ban on the gasoline additive M...