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...

Going back to his tennis heyday, attorney Lawrence H. Nagler is used to doing things his way. "On the tennis court, it's just ...

Focus on ADR Column by Palmer Brown Madden - The best way to prepare for mediation is to think through to the end what it is t...

If the plaintiffs had contacted the "Psychic Friends Network," they might have avoided this lawsuit. But Tim Youd and Jason Fr...

Focus on ADR Column by Sara Adler - This piece responds to an article by Diana Scott in the Nov. 14, 2001 issue of Verdicts &a...

LOS ANGELES - Toxic tort and environmental partner Frederick Ufkes has left Cleveland-based Arter & Hadden for Kirkpatrick...

SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Louise Renne, preparing to step down after 15 years in office, announced Tuesday a $2.75 million...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - San Bernardino prosecutors are refusing to take their cases before Judge Kenneth G. Ziebarth - a retired ju...

SACRAMENTO - A tort reform group that repeatedly has failed in its legislative efforts to narrow the state's Unfair Competitio...

VENTURA - Wading into one of coastal California's hottest property disputes, an appellate court has ruled that billionaire new...