SAN FRANCISCO - After a long, involved courtship, San Francisco insolvency and bankruptcy firm Murphy, Sheneman, Julian &...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether employers can be held liable for harassment c...

ORANGE - Caught in the unrelenting gaze of three justices from the 4th District Court of Appeal, the lawyer paused in awkward ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo finds himself in an unusual position for a high-profile lawyer and p...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Westlands Water District, a frequent target of environmentalists for its aggressive efforts to secure irr...

LOS ANGELES - When Vicki M. Roberts ran for a judge's seat in 2000, she garnered endorsements from across Los Angeles, from c...

SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay trial lawyers group has named Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Hunter and retired Contra...

VENTURA - It may not bring him back from wherever he has fled to, but Andrew Luster, now a convicted date-rapist, could lose ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Rex S. Heinke and Sandra M. Lee - Suppose you represent a client who is being investigated by a...

Forum Column - By Elisa Massimino - The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that the preside...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Wednesday struggled over how to resolve a challenge by drug manufacturers to a Main...

Forum Column - By Robert Gnalzda and Nativo Lopez - Rehnquist may be the wrong leader to raise the issue of an increase in the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers are about to find out if securities regulators intend to go through with a plan to turn the...

LOS ANGELES - In the early morning hours, while most people are sleeping, Judge William A. MacLaughlin is awake, tending to hi...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle has been assigned to determine whether eight cases involving allega...

WASHINGTON - Handing a solid victory to prosecutors, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that a criminal conspiracy...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has handed a local environmental group a significant victory in its bitter, multimilli...

Reporter's Notebook - By Robert Selna - Nearly a year after someone detonated an explosive in a men's restroom at the Hall of ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Karen Marie Kitterman - Those companies that fail to focus on the tax aspects of the...

LOS ANGELES - Why can't American lawyers be more like the English? That question took hold of Alan Fenster when he became the ...

RIVERSIDE - In a rare move for a judge, Janice McIntyre is stepping down from the Riverside Superior Court to practice law ag...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's novel 1999 law giving World War II victims of Japanese or German slave labor the right to sue co...

YUCAIPA - By the time 13-year-old Dylan Carr committed suicide with his grandfather's rifle, four months had passed since he r...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday held unconstitutional California's landmark law allowing individ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to clarify which legal avenues mentally ill death row inmates can...

Employment and labor law attorney Colleen Regan is leaving Perkins Coie to join Santa Monica litigation boutique Van Etten, S...

By Erik Cummins In November, a Cooley Godward memo stated obliquely that its two remaining Kirkland, Wash., partners, Christo...

The Association of Southern California Defense Counsel named its officers for the year 2003. Paul Fine is president-elect. He...

By Toni Vranjes San Marino's East West Bancorp Inc. is continuing its buying spree, agreeing to purchase Pacific Business Ban...

By Erik Cummins Midway through his career as a construction litigator, Jeffrey Sykes took some time off and reassessed his li...