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...

Gov. Gray Davis is holding up $88.5 million in legal fees JAMS says the state owes to five law firms. On Nov. 30, the JAMS arb...

SAN FRANCISCO - While the magic carpet ride may have ended long ago for the '60s rock band Steppenwolf, at least one of its me...

Artisan Components Inc. has agreed to acquire the Silicon Library Business from Synopsys Inc. for $24.6 million. Sunnyvale's A...

San Francisco's Gordon & Rees has recruited its fifth employment attorney this year. Jennifer Sarkozy Branch joins the fir...

Dynavax Technologies Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $75 million. Berkeley's Dynavax Technologies is a bio...

Latham & Watkins partner Michael Hertz has put the San Francisco Bar Association's volunteer legal services program online...

The Defense Research Institute has elected Theresa Marchlewski, a partner at Santa Monica's Haight Brown & Bonesteel, to i...

Justice can only be achieved through a public forum and the prospect of significant punishment. ...