While Sacramento lawmakers argue about relatively minor reforms to the state's unfair-competition law, an appellate court opin...

After 19 years as a sole practitioner, Berkeley's Berne Reuben says he was tired of being on his own. "I wanted to be part of ...

Joseph Campisi says leaving Pillsbury Winthrop wasn't so much about leaving the San Francisco firm as it was about re-examinin...

A Los Angeles jury awarded a telephone calling-card provider $4.6 million last month in its dispute with Pacific Bell Telephon...

In the 1986 film "Tough Guys," Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas play train robbers who finally are set free after 30 years in t...

Forum Column - By D. Malcolm Carson - Every day of the week, morning or afternoon, truck traffic on the Long Beach Freeway, In...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Stephen C. Seto - In these times of downsizing and declining rents, many financially healthy...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Karl Gerber - Not long ago, an employment attorney with a California Fair Employment and Ho...

RIVERSIDE - Saying he erred by making comments to the media, a judge has recused himself from the murder trial of a woman accu...

LOS ANGELES - A former Roman Catholic priest whose female cousin recently testified that he molested her more than 40 years ag...

In Closing Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - One of the oldest tenets of mediation is the confiden...

RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court jury late Thursday found a 20-year veteran investigator with the Riverside district attorney's of...

Despite laws that limit marriage to heterosexuals in 37 states and a proposed federal amendment that would do the same nationw...

WASHINGTON - Time passes quickly when you're having fun, and the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed 2002-03 term really z...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge has given the green light to a lawsuit alleging that a former employee at the Lawrence Liverm...

SAN FRANCISCO - The recording industry's recent announcement that it would start suing individuals who trade songs online prov...

SAN JOSE - Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to permit the use of marijuana as a medical necessity, attorneys for...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Dara K. Reiner and Jennifer Rodriguez - Every day, decisions are made in California's ...

Forum Column - By Joseph F. C. DiMento - The publication last month of a major study reporting the collapse of the great preda...

Focus Column - Litigation - By John B. Quinn and William C. Price - On the morning of your final status conference, your clien...

RIVERSIDE - In a controversial move, Riverside County's Superior Court may halt civil trials for a month this summer so that j...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert A. Dukes and District Attorney Steve Cooley have reached a com...

SACRAMENTO - Several bills affecting the legal profession passed legislative committees this week, including one by Assemblyma...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gregory Ward has an impressive legal background, with stints prosecuting or...

SAN BERNARDINO - Retired San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Charles S. Havens died Monday of long-term effects of a ch...

LOS ANGELES - Child molestation charges were dismissed Wednesday against former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald C. K...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys can be sued for malicious prosecution if they learn their lawsuits have no merit after they are filed,...

LOS ANGELES - Three years ago, Cuban piano tuner Armando Gomez couldn't get a visa to attend the annual international piano tu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Lenard Louie on Wednesday swept aside prosecution objections to immunizing statements by ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Wednesday was a typical day in Winnie the Pooh Litigation Land. Nothing much happened. But six law fi...