REDWOOD SHORES - Stepping into Weil Gotshal & Manger's new Silicon Valley office is a distinctly unlawyerly experience, an...

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has upheld the highly unusual decision of a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner to jail a c...

LOS ANGELES - "I'm nothing." The phrase comes straight from the mouth of a man who has devoted his life to hostage negotiation...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just two months ago, the California Supreme Court decided it wasn't ready to tackle the question of whether a ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's largest health care workers' union goes to court today to fight a class action by a nationa...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Three years ago tonight, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner H. George Taylor and his wife, Lynda, were...

Forum Column - By Charles B. Craver - The collapse of Enron has demonstrated that most employees exercise no control over issu...

RIVERSIDE - While representing himself in a burglary trial, Narcisco Medina put the trial judge in what an appellate court cal...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bruce Eads , an associate with the Oakland firm of Donahue Gallagher Woods & Woods , has been named Volunt...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco Assistant District Attorney James Hammer, the lead prosecutor in the fatal dog-mauling trial, has ...

LOS ANGELES - Roger's story of sexual abuse by an adult male relative is ugly, but not uncommon. From the time the boy was 9, ...

LOS ANGELES - With leaves of potted plants bursting out like fireworks all around his bench, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ...

LOS ANGELES - Most of the cast of characters in the now-infamous dog-mauling case playing out in a Los Angeles courtroom are f...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The State Bar of California recently has reactivated its Commission for the Revision of t...

Focus Column - By David Gerber - The elements of a copyright infringement claim are "ownership of the copyright; and ... infri...

Q: What role should a mediator play in creating the documentation of a settlement reached at a mediation? ...

Focus On ADR - By C. David Serena - Why should anyone be concerned about the appointment of a guardian ad litem for a minor, o...

Column by John Patzakis - While lawyers are paying more attention to electronic evidence in civil litigation matters than ever...

Focus On ADR - By Jeffrey Krivis - Recently, I confronted the most difficult challenge of my 21 years in the practice of law....

Focus On ADR Opinion - By Richard M. Brown - Having been part of professional sports for two decades in such diverse capacitie...

Focus On ADR - By Kenneth D. Gack and Edward Stern - This is the first in a series of articles devoted to the most compelling ...

Focus On ADR - By Palmer Brown Madden - Mediations are not always successful. Based on experience, some 20 percent of the time...

Northern California litigator Bruce A. Bailey initially comes across as timid and unprepared. Don't be fooled, warns an attorn...

Kaiser Permanente's psychiatrists came under fire recently for helping a mentally ill patient with seizures regain her driving...

SAN FRANCISCO - An order from the California Supreme Court on Thursday holding a respected lawyer in contempt for missing a de...

WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, who hold a narrow majority, on Thursday finally voted down President Bush's...

SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, a San Francisco judge dismissed all 224 sex-molestation charges against a defrocked San Francisco...

Forum Column - By Keith Paul Bishop - California and Californians would be poorer without employee stock options. Without the ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Following a dismal showing in last week's primary, District Attorney Dennis Stout on Thursday abruptly halted...

RIVERSIDE - Justice Art McKinster and his colleagues at the 4th District Court of Appeal in Riverside grind out more opinions ...