Focus Column - Employment Law - By Katherine S. Catlos - If employment law claims can be characterized as weapons, retaliation...

LOS ANGELES - Sean Penn may be against a war with Iraq, but that's not stopping him from waging his own legal battle with asp...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - What if a city charged Democrats, but not Republicans, to use a city facility? That might s...

Column By Garry Abrams - An attorney for a famous movie director is trying to jump-start Pinocchio with a defibrillator. In a...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge's ruling that allows the defendant in a murder case to challenge the prosecution's evidenc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Any way you slice it, carving up a law firm is a messy proposition. Even the smallest firm that fails must co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's largest remaining practice groups found new homes Wednesday, as th...

SAN FRANCISCO - At Anthony Taylor's Los Angeles murder trial 12 years ago, the state's two chief witnesses both recanted the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite repeated warnings from city health and building officials, longtime San Francisco Deputy Public Defen...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel handed a landmark arbitration victory to seven million California consumers Tuesday, ...

LOS ANGELES - If Hollywood moguls are casting around for a sequel to the hit Leonardo DiCaprio movie, "Catch Me If You Can," ...

From Staff Reports SAN FRANCISCO - Friends will celebrate the life and career of feminist attorney and Equal Rights Advocates...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles today is expected to become the largest city in the nation to force city contractors to extend bene...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey C. Eglash - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners - the civilian body charged with overseein...

LOS ANGELES - Accusing Lyon & Lyon of squandering money on attorney and staff salaries, a landlord owed $2.7 million by t...

LOS ANGELES - Another partner from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, the debt-laden San Francisco firm that intends to shut it...

SACRAMENTO - For the second year in a row, criminal defense lawyers are trying to pass a bill in the Legislature that would i...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - A well-drafted arbitration clause will specify the numbe...

LOS ANGELES - A government-funded community bank founded to foster development in riot-ravaged South Central Los Angeles does...

LOS ANGELES - Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones, the uber-bankruptcy boutique with offices in California, New York a...

LOS ANGELES - Product liability and medical malpractice attorney Alexander B.T. Cobb died Jan. 4 in a car accident near his h...

SAN FRANCISCO - A complicated kickback scheme between a high-ranking San Francisco technology officer and a Washington state ...

LOS ANGELES - Just two months after the defection of his longtime colleague Laurence Pretty, partner Robert Schroeder also is...

Focus Column Family Law By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus A spouse who can effectively conceal income and assets may ...

Column By Garry Abrams LOS ANGELES - Steven Zager, thy name is mud, or worse, in some quarters. In fact, I believe that Zager...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has imposed sanctions against Intouch Group Inc. of San Francisco for pursuing a frivolous in...

Forum Column By Peter H. Meyers The Bush administration's smallpox vaccination program contains a very serious omission. It f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Employees at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison are threatening to sue their firm for asking them to continue wor...

WASHINGTON - Engaged in a test of strength and will, senators on Monday debated for a third day the nomination of Miguel A. E...

SANTA ANA - A national bar association with powerful conservative connections has set its sights on Orange County as a beachh...