SAN FRANCISCO - The first of 40 cases nationwide that charges Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with workplace violations went to trial in ...

LOS ANGELES - On Saturday, Loyola Law School will put the civil justice system on trial for its life. In response to charges t...

REDWOOD CITY - A proposed settlement of an insider trading lawsuit that would have resolved the case by allowing Oracle Corp. ...

Column - By Garry Abrams - For a month, superlawyer David Boies, the famed attorney who prosecuted Microsoft for antitrust vio...

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who was badly burned recently when a PG&E electrical transformer exploded in San Francisco's Finan...

MULTIFAMILY NAPA - Montrachet, a 200-unit luxury apartment community, was sold for $45 million by BayRock Financial to First ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jan Vaughn Mock - You may think things are ticking along just fine in your client's busines...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Teresa Tracy - In a dramatic departure from the position that has been espoused by the Cali...

LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica attorneys Dennis Mullen and John Jakle decided they could better serve their clients if they moved ...

SAN DIEGO - A federal appellate court on Friday said defense lawyers and federal judges had failed to deliver justice for a S...

SAN FRANCISCO - Portland, Ore.-based Bullivant Houser Bailey has merged with Sacramento's Bartel Eng & Schroder, bringing...

LOS ANGELES - Glenn W. Trost, former managing partner of Coudert Brothers' Los Angeles office, has departed for a partner pos...

SAN FRANCISCO - A nationally known advocate for juvenile justice has left Columbia Legal Services in Seattle to join Oakland'...

SAN FRANCISCO - When she was appointed 10 years ago to the Monterey County bench at age 35, Superior Court Judge Marla O. Ande...

SAN FRANCISCO - The trustee representing the bankruptcy estate of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is trying to close another ...

LOS ANGELES - Frustrated by lack of progress in three years of settlement talks, lawyers for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of...

SAN DIEGO - By late afternoon, only two cases remained of the dozens that Superior Court Judge Charles G. Rogers had faced sev...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has refused to force Visa and MasterCard to immediately notify 264,000 customers that a...

Forum Column - By Pamela E. Dunn and Daniel J. Koes - Rare is it that a party gets punished for a trial-court victory. But tha...

Letter to the Editor - I write to correct some misleading insinuations in the article about the U.S. attorney's office and to ...

Henry Su is the latest partner to join Howrey Simon Arnold & White's intellectual property practice in Menlo Park. Su, who...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee may have convened Thursday to approve chief justice nominee John G. Roberts Jr., ...

SAN JOSE - Aaron Persky, a psychiatrist's son who was assigned last fall to be a judge in Santa Clara County's drug court, ha...

Forum Column - By Devallis Rutledge - It's been a hundred years since the Supreme Court created the federal exclusionary rule ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a San Francisco man can be convicted of three diffe...

LOS ANGELES - Richard Coleman jokingly calls himself a "recovering trial lawyer." But get the 70-year-old mediator talking, an...

LOS ANGELES - If you passed the bar in 1998 or later, Eliot Disner probably wants to represent you. Disner's behind of a pair...

LOS ANGELES -Federal prosecutors decided earlier this week not to seek the death penalty against four alleged gang members ac...

LOS ANGELES -MacLaren Children's Center, the home for abused and neglected children that was shuttered two years ago followin...

SACRAMENTO - The price of inaction is going up. Starting in 2006, inactive members of the California State Bar will see their...