Fulbright & Jaworski has hired trademark lawyer John "Rocky" C. Rawls III from Jones Day. Rawls, who was with the Los Ange...

BY DANIEL J. VILLALPANDO Recently, Assemblywoman Loni Hancock introduced a split-roll property tax measure that could affect ...

Column - Intellectual Property - By Miriam Beezy and Herb Williams - Many in business believe that developing a catchy name or...

Lured by overseas opportunities, a subsidiary of Los Angeles investment firm Saban Capital Group has bought a controlling inte...

Column - Voir Dire - By Andrea Mosmann - California's one-day, one-trial jury service system has led to increased juror turnou...

Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - A split of opinion has developed between two divisions of the 2nd Distric...

Forum Column - By Christopher P. O'Connell - Lost in the cacophony created by Enron, WorldCom and other crises is a state Supr...

SAN JOSE - In a victory for the federal government in its continuing battle to enforce laws against medical marijuana, a fede...

WASHINGTON - Judges are susceptible to peer pressure just like the rest of us. So says a new study that examines the voting b...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - Renters usually end up in court only because their landlords have forced them there. ...

VALLEJO - A grizzly bear and big-horned sheep peer out from large faded photos hung for too many years on the chamber walls of...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has reinstated the claims of "extremely obscene" sexual harassment by two women workin...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal judge has made it clear that local sheriffs can't run to federal court to circum...

Column by Garry Abrams - Last week, I had a crisis over whether the California recall election constitutes, or could somehow c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing three years of unprecedented budget cuts, the state Judicial Council approved a range of cost-saving me...

Jon Sobel is leaving Yahoo! Inc., where he has worked as the Internet search company's top lawyer since March 2001, to return ...

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer The flood of 1 million square feet of new office space being planned or built in the city of ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Harrison J. Dossick and Katherine L. McDaniel - In Hollywood, they often say that "c...

Forum Column - By Deborah J. La Fetra - Do judges need friends? The usefulness of friend-of-the-court briefs is a recurring qu...

Forum Column - By Betty Raskoff Kazmin - Thou shalt not micromanage! The word means "to manage with great or excessive control...

Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - For many years, employers have sought to avoid the court system by requiring mandatory ar...

LOS ANGELES - A veteran Los Angeles police officer alleges in a suit filed Thursday that his department's internal affairs uni...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday reinstated the claims of "extremely obscene" sexual harassment by two women w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups have the right to challenge national forestry regulations, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

SAN DIEGO - A federal grand jury has indicted three San Diego city councilmen for allegedly agreeing to accept payments from s...

WASHINGTON - One of the last remaining challenges to the Oct. 7 recall election will be back in the spotlight today. A three-j...

WASHINGTON - Judges are susceptible to peer pressure just like the rest of us. So says a new study that examines the voting be...

SAN JOSE - In a victory for the federal government in its continuing battle to enforce laws against medical marijuana, a feder...

SANTA BARBARA - A jury Thursday found Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall not guilty of threatening her former live-in girlfrie...

SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly approved late amendments Thursday to a bill to protect small businesses seeking reforms to the...