SAN FRANCISCO - There's no law in California forbidding a state Supreme Court justice from passing on the rulings of another j...
LOS ANGELES - Peter J. Mirich has more to consider than the average Southern California commuter when deciding how he'll get t...
SAN FRANCISCO - If you want to represent indigent criminal defendants in federal court in northern California, you must be a m...
SAN FRANCISCO - No one has tallied the hundreds of potential conflicts of interest that have gone undetected over the years by...
VILLA PARK - William A. Dougherty, a veteran defense attorney whose clients included convicted spy Christopher Boyce, has lost...
MARTINEZ - A ruling hailed last month as a major victory for online First Amendment rights was essentially reversed last week ...
Focus Column by Joel Riff and Deborah Miller - Until recently, technology companies were growing like weeds, sprouting up ever...
SAN FRANCISCO - Deputy City Attorney Nathan Ballard took a leave of absence from the office just in time to miss the stretch r...
Forum Column by Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. - January will be different this year at The Washington Post, and beyond. Herblock, the...
In May 2000, the partners of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro participated in an unusual brainstorming session. Sitting around ta...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has thrown out allegations that former city supervisor Angela Alioto discriminated again...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether local governments have authority to regulate tow-truck d...
Bankruptcy Law Practitioner Column by Rod Berman and Steven Plotkin - In acquiring the assets of a bankrupt company, buyers ma...
He was a small man with a skinny mustache, baggy pants and a knack for making people smile by an expression or a pratfall. But...
EL CAJON - Steven H. Jordan and Eileen K. Jordan sold an apartment building in El Cajun to Cuong P. Nguyen, Adam S. Cook and M...
Mary Anna Henley called it "a David and Goliath type of thing." Make that two Goliaths and a complexity of twists and turns th...
It was supposed to be a roast. But when Richard C. Turrone, the presiding judge of the Santa Clara Superior Court, sat down to...
Resolving "broken homes" cases is time-consuming, costly and frustrating. A seven-step process that begins with a discovery st...
Homeowners often experience water damage to their homes. The homeowners usually have insurance, so they expect the problem to ...
Even though cigarette butts were found on the ledge outside the window, the defense attorney argued that the hospital staff di...
LOS ANGELES - A former word processor at Barger & Wolen has sued the firm and partner Richards D. Barger, claiming Barger ...
LOS ANGELES- A Pakistani man, who faced visa fraud charges along with two Pakistani students, pleaded guilty Thursday in feder...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Thursday to address the thorny issue of visitation rights for grandparents...
Forum Column by Christopher L. Carpenter - Estate of Guidotti , 90 Cal.App.4th 1403 (2001), is the first case in 50 yea...
LOS ANGELES - Three immigrants who filed a class action against the city of Los Angeles a year ago, claiming the Los Angeles P...
LOS ANGELES - Hogan & Hartson of Washington, D.C., will acquire New York-based Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Arguing that their clients would be prejudiced by a joint trial in the dog-mauling death of their neighbor, at...
LOS ANGELES - Adding another page to the complicated history of California law on confidential communication, an appellate cou...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court has announced the new members of the court's policy-making Executive Committee. M...
SAN JOSE - In Judge Ronald M. Whyte's Silicon Valley courtroom, the stakes are high - hundreds of millions of dollars - in leg...