SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in two years, oil giant Tosco Corp.'s defamation claims against an Oakland environmental g...

SACRAMENTO - The League of California Cities on Tuesday challenged the constitutionality of a new law that extends binding arb...

Experienced appellate advocates know that one must tread lightly around the doctrine of stare decisis. ...

Nobody seemed capable of getting Jason Sparks to shut up while he was on the witness stand. "We're going to try to talk like w...

Frequently, counsel representing claimants in employment arbitration cite Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services I...

SAN FRANCISCO - In what the attorney filing the action claims is a new wrinkle in the continuing saga of Chuck Quackenbush, a ...

The slogan on Michael Moorhead's letterhead stationery exhorts lawyers and their clients to "participate in the solution - not...

In Eastern Assoc. Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers of Amer., District 17, 2000 WL 1740932 (U.S. Sct. 2000), the U.S. Supreme ...

Nonunionized employees now have the right, upon request, to have a co-worker representative present during disciplinary Weinga...

SAN DIEGO - Charles Ervin couldn't be happier about becoming a Superior Court judge, but he sure does miss the motorcycle he s...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said he is worried that Tuesday's merger of the county's South and...

In last week's issue, Verdicts & Settlements reviewed the major Holocaust-related litigation in the United States, from 19...

Should exclusively women mediators be hired in sexual harassment cases involving female plaintiffs? After putting that convent...

SAN DIEGO - A 20-year-old woman whom authorities believe is from Honduras faces felony charges of child abandonment and neglec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three public interest lawyers filed a claim against the city Tuesday, saying they intend to sue because police...

LOS ANGELES - In a union of lawyers and change of logos, San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and New York's Winthrop...

WASHINGTON - For many federal and state prisoners, the Supreme Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (200...

SAN FRANCSICO - Louise Renne intends to run again for city attorney in November, and former challenger Neil Eisenberg is serio...

SAN FRANCISCO - The millennium closed with the demise of yet another Bay Area intellectual property boutique. Lawyers from D'A...

WASHINGTON - The dissenters to Supreme Court decisions regularly engage in hyperbole to warn of dire results from the majority...

MARKLEEVILLE - If they ever got together for a drink at the Cutthroat Saloon, just down Main Street from the courthouse here, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Burlingame priest who alleges he was punished for reporting a fellow priest's misconduct with an altar boy c...

LOS ANGELES - Two years ago, the American Bar Association began an intense drive to recruit lawyers nationwide to represent po...

Evolution in the law holds a significant promise of freedom and equality, not only for transgendered people, but for everyone,...

After more than a decade of working in the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, Marc Greenberg found a partner spot in the l...

The University of San Diego School of Law has honored a Baker & McKenzie attorney with its Distinguished Alumni Award. The...

Impeachment with deposition testimony is an important part of trial work, fraught with great possibilities for scoring points....

Corporate America learned long ago that attracting consumers takes more than a good product. It's image that sells. These days...

QuantumShift Inc. has agreed to acquire ICE Wireless for $5 million. Novato's QuantumShift offers Web-based software and suppo...

San Francisco's Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold recently acknowledged that it was getting too big for its operations when i...