SAN JOSE - On the eve of the criminal trade-secrets theft trial against Avant Corp., the Fremont-based company has quietly set...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jonathan V. Holtzman, a longtime chief deputy in Louise Renne's office who is currently Mayor Willie Brown's t...
SAN FRANCISCO - White House Republicans and California's two Democratic senators have hashed out a power-sharing mechanism thi...
LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, Chapman University began an aggressive effort to establish a law school. Jurors will get a chanc...
The dawn of the 21st century should not be a time in which we regress so far back in time as to re-establish long-discredited ...
LOS ANGELES - Gender inequality in the legal profession remains a serious problem despite advances by women in the past 30 yea...
In the court of public opinion, the media are under increasing pressure to take more responsibility for the products they dist...
Napster may have run afoul of the law but in its place on the Web is Gnutella, a file-sharing network that could be the next a...
In Bendheim Brothers & Co. v. Baldwin, 73 Ga. 594 (1884), Justice M.H. Blandford found the following for the court:...
Arbitration as a preferred method for resolving employment-related disputes received a substantial boost recently with the U.S...
SAN FRANCISCO - An amended lawsuit that was to be filed today in Alameda County Superior Court alleges that Deputy State Attor...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Councilman and city attorney candidate Mike Feuer announced Wednesday that he has added the uni...
Whether you are a litigator or a transactional attorney, negotiation of disagreements is a part of your everyday business life...
LOS ANGELES - After a year of unprecedented growth in which northern California firms outpaced their Southland counterparts, t...
LOS ANGELES - The long arm of California law just got longer in legal malpractice cases as a result of a state appellate court...
The legal standards by which today's custodial arrangements are derived have their roots in law created over 40 years ago. Soc...
SAN FRANCISCO - One month after a grand jury indicted lawyers Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller in the dog attack death of thei...
SANTA ANA - The attorney general's office has turned down a defense attorney's request to investigate Orange County Supervisor...
SAN DIEGO - A veteran deputy prosecutor has sued his boss, District Attorney Paul Pfingst, alleging Pfingst retaliated against...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County woman who faced allegations five years ago that she ran an international baby-selling ring has be...
LOS ANGELES - Note to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan: Forget the consumer price index, the unemployment rate or the a...
SANTA ANA - Orange County bankruptcy attorney Heidi Knapp Leanders, known for her devotion to her work and her children, has d...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city's newest mega-firm, Pillsbury Winthrop, celebrated its first 100 days by sending cakes to more than 2...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review a lower court ruling that found unconstitutional a key...
Judges and Judiciary
Changes on the Bench: An Appointment and a Resignation
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - John A. Mendez, who served a brief but controversial stint as U.S. Attorney in San Francisco and has extensive...
LOS ANGELES - A former employee of the Screen Actors Guild has filed a lawsuit against the organization alleging racial discri...
Appellate Practice
Thousands-Year-Old Man Spends Eternity in Litigation
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Although he died thousands of years before the Egyptians built the pyramids, the ancient American known as Kenne...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Magistrate Judge Edward A. Infante, who recently brokered a settlement in the 3Com securities class acti...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Coastal Commission, a unique state agency which for a quarter-century has controlled developmen...
The American Management Association found that 27 percent of all major American businesses monitored e-mail.