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San Francisco Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith is understanding and respectful of trial lawyers - he was one for more than 20 years. ...

From her oceanfront courtroom, Los Angeles Judge Ramona G. See hears cases brought by everyone from angry surfers to disgruntl...

Troy Garren is suing Maric College because he spent three years training to be a radiological technician, only to find out the...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge disqualified Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy from defending Deutsche Bank in a case brought ...

Forum Column - By David V. Dilenschneider - A $5 million wrongful death case in Florida had to be retried when it was discover...

A buyer of a small business, using funds borrowed from a relative, finds the business is failing shortly after purchase. He cl...

LOS ANGELES - The $3.2 million verdict handed down this month in favor of Alan Ladd and Jay Kanter against Warner Bros. marks ...

Forum Column - By Sid Leach - An Arizona court has taken the long-overdue step of punishing individuals who try to live off of...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is almost 10 years old, and the rules of the information superhighway are more confusing ...

Focus Column - By Elisa Paster and Niyati Vyas - The state Supreme Court gives cities the green light to dole out business adv...

Paul L. Krentzman attended law school because he wasn't interested in science and "wasn't good at fixing things." It turns o...

SAN FRANCISCO - During the last 25 years, earthquakes, fires and winter storms have caused the city of Oakland to be declared ...

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - California employers who want to stay on the right side of the law need to brush u...

A little more than a year ago, three women brought a race class action against financial services giant Morgan Stanley. On A...

SAN FRANCISCO - Once upon a time, only the biggest law firms in the western world dared to set up shop in communist China. To...

Los Angeles-based attorney George Stephan is on a crusade to see that California's strict mediation confidentiality laws stay ...

LOS ANGELES - After helping secure a $36 million settlement for 300,000 people from the nation's leading bar review provider i...

SAN JOSE - The San Jose Unified School District announced at the end of July that it would take on the task of retrofitting th...

Victor Arellano died after officials in a San Pedro detention center refused to give him his AIDS medicine, fellow detainees s...

Two Mayan Indian brothers ages 9 and 7 fled with their parents in 1982 after Guatemalan army soldiers entered their rural vill...

Web Exclusive - Surprise, Surprise. San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has an opponent in her re-election bid: the ...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar is launching a pilot program that will allow 1,500 of its attorneys to bypass lengthy courthouse s...

Forum Column - By James J. Brosnahan - A former member of the Kennedy Justice Department looks back on a career that puts the ...

RIVERSIDE - Two days after losing a bid to bar a judge from presiding over a murder trial, Riverside District Attorney Rod Pac...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court ruling this week restricting the U.S. Navy's use of sonar during training exercises off Southe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bingham McCutchen's public policy consulting outfit is setting up shop in Sacramento in order to service clien...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a first of its kind lawsuit brought under Chinese law, a San Francisco lawyer filed a local class action We...

Focus Column - By Steven B. Katz and Andrew Miller - A case out of the California Supreme Court is breaking new ground in def...

He's still just a temp, but interim San Francisco U.S. Attorney Scott N. Schools is moving ahead with the permanent appointmen...