Top 30 Women Litigators - Debra E. Pole - Attorney Debra E. Pole had the good fortune to be taken under a judge's wing when sh...

Top 30 Women Litigators - Amy Fisch - Amy Fisch Solomon loves to stick up for the little guy. Solomon, a partner at Girardi &a...

Top 30 Women Litigators - Carla Feldman - Carla Feldman started her career as a litigator with a mission to change the system...

Top 30 Women Litigators - Michelle Reinglass - Laguna Hills-based Michelle Reinglass knew when she went to Western State Unive...

LOS ANGELES - Just five months after he was tapped to head the criminal division of the Los Angeles city attorney's office, Ge...

SAN FRANCISCO - Professional fees for the first year of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy exceeded $46 million, with...

SAN FRANCISCO - Injured motorists who are uninsured cannot collect damages for pain and suffering from a private party who has...

SAN DIEGO - A cell-phone call made by David A. Westerfield, charged with kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Dam,...

WASHINGTON - Two California presidential nominees commanded the attention of the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, with one...

SACRAMENTO - One of the key measures in a package of bills that would impose reforms on alternative dispute resolution has bee...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law has caved to state Sen. John Burton in its showdown over its much-disputed parking...

SANTA ANA - Down south in New Orleans for a deposition in 1989, San Diego trial attorney Virginia Nelson stopped to watch a st...

SAN JOSE - In a tart opinion, a federal judge has kept alive a lawsuit by members of the San Jose chapter of the Hells Angels ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Holme Roberts & Owen, a 200-attorney firm based in Denver, has announced plans to open a San Francisco out...

LOS ANGELES - Irving H. Brott, a Los Angeles sole practitioner who will be remembered for his pro bono work for the University...

RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court jury is deliberating the case against a Moreno Valley man who authorities say pleaded guilty to a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A bare-chested photo of former "Baywatch" star Jose Solano Jr. on the cover of Playgirl Magazine, along with m...

SAN FRANCISCO - A construction worker who believed a contract could convey parenthood has won an award against a fertility cli...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - In 1996, welfare reform became law. Since its passage, the number of families on welfar...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has refused to grant more time for a Los Angeles defendant who claimed that bad advice f...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - The partnership track at most major firms is seven-to-10 years long, and wise ass...

Focus Column - By Mitchell P. Brook - In a long-awaited decision with implications for both patent owners and litigants, the U...

SAN FRANCISCO - One day after a $4.4 million verdict for Earth First plaintiffs in an Oakland civil rights trial, the San Fran...

SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield told police that he would not be able to distinguish the 7-year-old girl he is accused of kid...

SAN FRANCISCO - City sidewalks must be kept free of barriers to the handicapped under a broad reading of the Americans with Di...

Focus Column - By Jeffrey Winikow - England has been celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, honoring her past 50 ye...

Column by Garry Abrams - Terrorism expert Brian Levin isn't particularly surprised that federal authorities have detained a Hi...

LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco litigator with a record of being sanctioned by trial judges can sue the State Bar in an attempt ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge is expected to rule by Friday on whether to certify as a class action an abuse lawsuit filed...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by a San Luis Obispo defense lawyer who had accused District Atto...