Column - Litigation Strategy - By Steven S. Kaufhold - Discovery can seem deceptively simple and straightforward: You send out...

Craig Cardon thinks Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton is one of the state's go-to firms for entertainment and media law....

SAN BERNARDINO - CCI Club SB LLC purchased the 212,000-square-foot Club Center retail and industrial center at 243-269 E. Car...

Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeff Kichaven and Deborah Rothman - Question : What should the defense bar unders...

Three veteran trial attorneys are leaving Los Angeles' federal public-defender's office to open a private partnership concentr...

When increasing numbers of gay couples started splitting up in the early 1990s, Oakland attorney Frederick Hertz found a uniqu...

The massive blackout on the East Coast this summer uncovered serious flaws in the way energy is transmitted, says Dan Fessler,...

LOS ANGELES - Just exactly what was Tom McClintock talking about? As recall candidates Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arianna Huffi...

Forum Column - By Duf Sundheim - For months, East Coast political pundits and other outside observers have watched the Califor...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Gerald G. Knapton - Lawyers have tried to expand the ability of parties to ...

Focus Column - Evidence Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - In 1956, professor David W. Louisell eloquently explained the nature of...

Forum Column - By Art Torres - As Sen. Dianne Feinstein has said, this recall is a bad idea for California. The original inten...

SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis announced Friday the appointments of Deputy District Attorney George "Woody" Clarke and civil atto...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney on Friday rejected calls to investigate Arnold Schwarzenegger for sexual batte...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury has settled a fee fight between two lawyers and their security company client, leaving n...

SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty police officers accused of beating two men on Union Street last year have moved to dismiss ...

LOS ANGELES - On April 28, 1975, Martha E. Bellinger, a recently ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, gave a cand...

Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - California's recall election Tuesday is the first attempt in the history of the sta...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first thing you notice about Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's new building at First and Howard streets...

LOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger's alleged history of groping women, if proved, is unlawful and could have exposed the acto...

Employment Column - By Deanna Wilkinson - Fall recruiting has begun. Law firms from all over the country are descending on law...

Forum Column - By Richard C. Darwin - On May 21, the state Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and International Trade and t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Members of the California Employment Lawyers Association will be buzzing today about this week's federal appea...

SAN FRANCISCO - The word in the San Francisco criminal courts is that recently re-appointed Superior Court Judge Mary Morgan w...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco health commissioner, indicted last month on charges that he intentionally infected two ...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department faces an uphill battle in trying to get to the bottom of allegations that White House offi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit that threatened to derail logging on tens of thousands of acres of land owned by Pacific Lumber Co. ...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sheri Bluebond is a woman of varied talents. Bluebond can help an ailing company get back ...

LOS ANGELES - Roman Catholic archdioceses from other states that knowingly send their pedophile clergy to California can be su...

SAN FRANCISCO - Medical marijuana advocates who support District Attorney Terence Hallinan for re-election are behind the ethi...