SAN DIEGO - Court of Appeal Justice Gilbert P. Nares loves the area of San Diego where he grew up. Nares, who sits on the 4th ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By David Burkenroad - Since Code of Civil Procedure Section 1008 was amended in 1992, it has drast...

SAN FRANCISCO - While criticizing Sen. Trent Lott's racially charged remarks, the Bush administration has been quietly urging ...

Focus Column Bankruptcy Law By Leslie A. Cohen and Craig G. Margulies The assignability of a contract or lease is a critical ...

Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Something's up. Defense lawyers and plaintiffs lawyers are huddling, g...

WASHINGTON - An obviously exasperated Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist again has urged Congress to create more federal judge...

LOS ANGELES - Barry Russell, the U.S. Central District's incoming chief bankruptcy judge, is preparing for an onslaught of cas...

WASHINGTON - In the hours following the Sept. 11 attacks on America, newspapers began to ask an important, if unpopular, quest...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Virtually every day there is a story in the media regarding the war on terrorism and the g...

Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Leslie A. Cohen and Craig G. Margulies - The assignability of a contract or lease is a crit...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has hit a lower Nob Hill landlord with a half-million-dollar civil penalty for renting...

SAN DIEGO - In response to motions by David A. Westerfield's lawyers to spare him from the death penalty, prosecutors say that...

SAN PEDRO - Commissioner Beverly Mosley remembered Calvin as a respectful, sweet boy. He had been a student in Mosley's sixth-...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three more litigators have left Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May as a result of the firm's merger wi...

Column By Garry Abrams - The law of gravity is not well understood in Los Angeles. This sad and embarrassing fact got its annu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Like a judicial tsunami, a state appellate court all but wiped out the California Coastal Commission on Monda...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey A. Berman and Kerry McCoy - 2002 has brought significant developments in the ongoin...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - The Solano County district attorney's office is adding a pair of prosecutors in Janua...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - In 2001, when the U.S. Supreme Court was reviewing a challenge to set-aside rules that auto...

LOS ANGELES - Some civil attorneys may be bleary-eyed on New Year's Day, but it won't be from partying. Many defense lawyers p...

SAN JOSE - Employment law attorneys waited for months for the California Supreme Court to clear up the controversy about whet...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis on Monday chose his chief deputy legal affairs secretary, Shelleyanne W.L. Chang, for a seat ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has upheld a controversial $5 use fee for national forests across the country but said ...

LOS ANGELES - A Monrovia law requiring public school children to be off the streets during school hours is constitutional beca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Violent criminals got little sympathy from the California Supreme Court in 2002. Juvenile offenders got stiff...

By Liz Valsamis With the recruitment of partner David R. Garcia from Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers, Sheppard, Mulli...

By Liz Valsamis Riverside's Best Best & Krieger has added another partner to its year-old Sacramento outpost. Ann Siprell...

A school official is liable for not meeting a boy's needs. Page XX. By Joan Osterwalder Parents of special education children...

By Liz Valsamis Former vice chair of Walt Disney Co. Sanford "Sandy" Litvack has left Dewey Ballantine a year after joining t...

By Toni Vranjes Newport Beach attorney Shiv Grewal was born in India, and the corporate and securities partner still has a sp...