LOS ANGELES - The dragging economy of 2001 did little to slow the flurry of activity among California law firms - and, in many...

LOS ANGELES - Large-firm lawyers took three giant steps back in 2001. "The last three years of growth were recaptured in one y...

Forum Column by Cary L. Schatz - The Department of Justice's recently enacted regulation allowing the monitoring of conversati...

SAN JOSE - Last week's trial of trainer Mark Gebel for alleged elephant abuse provided animal rights activists with a major me...

SAN FRANCISCO - The fine balance between an arresting officer's privacy interests and a criminal defendant's right to learn re...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been only two months since Teveia Rose Barnes moved into the corner office that her predecessor, Drucilla...

LOS ANGELES - William R. Hollingsworth, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge sitting on assignment in Torrance, has a re...

SAN FRANCISCO - The annual report for the U.S. attorney's office in Northern California shows that the number of criminal case...

Transactional Law Practitioner Column by Robert C. Barnes - As most transactional attorneys know, Article 9 of the Uniform Com...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento's largest law firm, Downey Brand Seymour & Rohwer, has named litigator Stephen J. Meyer as its new...

LOS ANGELES - For the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, 2001 was the year of Steve Cooley. The veteran prosecutor...

SACRAMENTO- Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, named Friday as the first female dean of McGeorge School of Law, said international la...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Aurelio Munoz is the last of a retiring breed. Of 25 judges selected in 1988 to pioneer the Fast Track pro...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate has approved five new judgeships sought by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to relieve the beleag...

LOS ANGELES - A downtown jury on Friday rejected a 28-year-old quadriplegic's claim that the city's policy of paying most trip...

OAKLAND - Three East Bay advocacy groups have won a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to create a project tha...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a flurry of year-end appointments, Gov. Gray Davis has elevated four Bay Area judges to the 1st District Co...

RIVERSIDE - Heating up Riverside County's race for top prosecutor, District Attorney Grover Trask is seeking an injunction to ...

Criminal Law Practitioner Column by Laurie L. Levonson - Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court held that roadblocks conducted for ...

LOS ANGELES - Two weeks after Steve Cooley took over the district attorney's office last December, he was briefed by prosecuto...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stanley Young has replaced Michael Charlson as managing partner of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's Menlo...

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...