LOS ANGELES - Giving up a decadelong courtroom war that drew one jury verdict of $1 billion-plus and another for hundreds of m...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison has selected litigator Edward F. Fernandes to manage t...

Forum Column by John C. Eastman - It may not have been intended as a Christmas present - our national security team certainly...

Forum Column by Alex Ricciardulli - Voter-approved initiatives often are tied up in the courts for years before anyone can ma...

BARSTOW - Stopping off in Barstow is like stepping into a bygone era, with its mom-and-pop cafes, crumbling motels with neon s...

SACRAMENTO - California Chief Justice Ronald George said Thursday he hopes the governor will allow the state Public Defender's...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles civil rights attorney has alerted the county's legal watchdog agency to a string of cases that all...

SAN JOSE - Hardly anyone bothered to respond to the Santa Clara County Bar Association's bi-annual survey of local judges, acc...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court made it easier Thursday for injured shoppers to win slip-and-fall tort suits. The...

SANTA MONICA - Services have taken place for George E. Sperling Jr., corporate counsel for the Carnation Co. for 34 years befo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three hotly contested psychological evaluations of Patrick Ghilotti, a serial rapist fighting for his release ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As part of Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s effort to win approval for its $10 billion bankruptcy reorganization...

SACRAMENTO - When the state Legislature reconvenes in January, a flood of anti-terrorism bills and a return to the tough-on-cr...

Forum Column by Stephen R. Barnett - Among the operational problems of the California Supreme Court, two stand out for the ext...

Dicta Column by Ralph Bovitz - Saving for retirement from the practice of law is a little painful as it involves having to put...

Employment Column by Luan McElroy - Unless your family member is the hiring partner of a firm or general counsel of a company,...

Court Jesters - In Epple v. State of Texas, 112 Tex. Crim. 612; 18 S.W.2d 625 (1928), Judge Albert B. Martin held the f...

Land Use Law Practitioner Column by Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert, David J. Petersen and Elizabeth M. Naughton - Whi...

DENVER - Families of victims of the terrorist attacks could receive an average of $1.65 million under a federal aid program de...

Dicta column by Paul O'Brien - "When did you become a writer?" she asked me. She was my student in a writing class at a univer...

Does the war on terrorism justify Attorney General John Ashcroft's recent actions? ...

OAKLAND - City Attorney John Russo doesn't face re-election for another two years, but a little early campaigning won't hurt i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Lenard Louie is often asked why he spells his first name with no letter O. The answer pro...

Column by Garry Abrams - Today, as a salute to the holiday season, I want to tell the heartwarming story of how the legal syst...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review the case of a Wells Fargo customer who was strip-searc...

LOS ANGELES - Intellectual property attorneys are finding irony in Adobe Systems Inc.'s new role on the receiving end of a tin...

Insurance law practitioner column by Kirk A. Pasich and Cassandra S. Franklin - When the meaning of the words used in a contra...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a rehearing Wednesday of a decision to excuse evidence of prosec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, who was publicly reproved in 1992 for being rude t...

Insurance law practitioner column by Andrew J. Barile - Sept. 11 will result in the largest ever catastrophe for the insurance...