Irell & Manella partner David Schwartz, who represents clients in commercial disputes, recently represented the United Sta...

A defendant's only prayer of avoiding joint-and-several liability when the United States sues for hazardous site cleanup costs...

To many employees at publicly traded dot-coms and other companies, the strategy seemed clear: Get a hold of some stock options...

SACRAMENTO - For the past year tiny Alpine County, which straddles the Sierra crest south of Lake Tahoe, has had just one judg...

The hardy smallish-big San Francisco firm Gordon & Rees named employment litigator Jim McMullen director of its Southern C...

LOS ANGELES - Seattle-based Preston Gates & Ellis has scored a corporate partner for its Irvine office. Bart Greenberg lef...

David Huard, a partner at Los Angeles's Manatt Phelps, recently won election to a three-year term on the board of directors of...

In the last two years, California has witnessed the federalization of local land uses to an extent not seen in the first 150 y...

After injuring both his legs in the National League Championship Series, Kirk Gibson surprised his Los Angeles Dodgers teammat...

BARSTOW - Jurors fidgeted uncomfortably Friday as they viewed autopsy photos of a pit bull's deep bite wounds in 10-year-old C...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of two critical utility hearings today may determine whether a federal bankruptcy judge will allow Pacific...

LOS ANGELES - Michael John Gennaco came to Los Angeles in the early 1990s to take on a police abuse case that no one else was ...

Sheri A. Bluebond, a partner at Irell & Manella, joined the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District. Bluebond repl...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers and the building industry, at odds for more than a decade over construction defect litigation, have...

IMPERIAL BEACH - From a remote, windswept bluff that straddles the U.S.-Mexican border just south of this small beachside comm...

The California Supreme Court's decision in Comedy III Productions Inc. v. Gary Saderup Inc., 2001 DJDAR 4162, the Three...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tanya Neiman's mantel must be listing under the weight of all the awards she has received during her 20 years ...

The California Supreme Court recently overlooked a chance to dispense justice. The high court refused to direct publication of...

LOS ANGELES - In a severe blow to a California-based high-tech company's main source of income, a federal jury in Virginia has...

SANTA ANA - Retired Municipal Court Judge Kenneth M. Smith, a Southland jurist whose sentencing of drug offenders to mandatory...

By Pamela A. MacLean DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - The stunning decision by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to s...

By Leslie A. Gordon Special to DJC Bankruptcy LOS ANGELES - Like fireflies to a light, except perhaps in reverse, California'...

The stunning decision by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to seek bankruptcy protection rather than a political solution to the...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge in Santa Cruz has declared unconstitutional a new state law imposing binding arbitratio...

Gone are the days of blanket protection for all documents filed under seal. As of Jan. 1, 2001, new California Rule of Court 2...

By Tina Spee DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - Fellow judicial officers paid tribute Friday to the memory of retired ...

By Dennis Pfaff DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - At some point very soon in the epic struggle over Pacific Gas &am...

By Dennis Pfaff DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Ratepayers of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. are not legally enti...

SAN FRANCISCO - A potential multibillion-dollar jury verdict against semiconductor giant Altera Corp. in a patent-infringement...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Juvenile Court's proposed tort policy - requiring private attorneys to join the county bar assoc...