LOS ANGELES - Kody Scott gained national acclaim for his 1993 jailhouse memoir "Monster: The Autobiography of a Gang Member," ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A rare Proposition 65 case that actually made it to trial collapsed recently after a judge severely criticize...

Lynne L. Heidel says this isn't the first time Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory approached her about joining the firm. ...

Attorneys from Walnut Creek class-action defense boutique Fleming & Phillips have penned their New Year's resolutions. The...

Pour a shot of Stoli. Add a splash of stolen intellectual property. Shake it up with the fall of the Russian Empire, and the r...

Los Angeles' Fainsbert Mase & Snyder lost three litigators Nov. 1 to Freeman, Freeman & Smiley, led by partner Bradley...

Top-flight aviation executives revealed what they're really looking for from outside counsel during an afternoon panel discuss...

Forum Column - By Michael A. S. Newman - In 621 B.C., the Athenian lawmaker Draco promulgated a legal code under which all cri...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Richard Marcus - In recent years, the hottest topic for litigators has been discovery o...

The public comment period on amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure runs through Feb. 15, 2005. A hearing in San F...

EXTRA Feature - We've heard about Sarbanes-Oxley for two years now. How it was a necessary crackdown on corporations to preven...

LOS ANGELES - Three female police officers have settled two lawsuits against the Glendale Police Department and the law firm o...

SACRAMENTO - Same-sex marriage opponents moved forward Friday with their efforts to recall a state trial judge and also annou...

SAN FRANCISCO - To save Scott Peterson's life when the jury returns Nov. 22 to decide whether he should be put to death for t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A third trial of a lawsuit brought by protesters whose faces were swabbed with pepper spray during anti-loggi...

WASHINGTON - In his first public remarks since resigning as attorney general, an impassioned John Ashcroft said Friday that ju...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge has ordered the state attorney general's office to turn over internal records to a loca...

Column - By Philip Carrizosa - Seventeen years ago, the California Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a 14-year-old boy co...

RIVERSIDE - Add the lowly pencil to the state's list of deadly weapons. In the first ruling of its kind, a California appellat...

SAN FRANCISCO - By age 80, many attorneys have retired. Gordon C. George is just getting started. The Danville resident was a...

SACRAMENTO - Civics class was straightforward if boring when Thomas A. "Tac" Craven was in high school. The teacher fed him f...

INDUSTRIAL IRVINE - Corinthian Investors LTD II has sold a 16,478-square-foot industrial building at 9 Marconi for $2.2 millio...

SACRAMENTO - Tort reformers may be on a roll. A tort-reform minded president was re-elected this month. Californians overwhel...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Ethan Friedman - Public agencies throughout the state are permitted to deduct environmental c...

Column Employment - Law By Rod M. Fliegel and Tara Bedeau -Employment litigators are all too familiar with the following refra...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - In the last election, Proposition 66, a ballot initiative that would have reformed the sta...

LOS ANGELES - Dale Fischer doesn't like it when attorneys take potshots at each other in written motions. Gary Klausner never ...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Randolf Rice has regained consciousness and was able to respond to a verba...

PASADENA - Swept off the shelves by reports linking it to thousands of deaths, Vioxx would seem to be easy pickings for the cr...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's mental health treatment court will expand in January to cover more criminal defendants - incl...