SAN FRANCISCO - The first thing you notice about Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's new building at First and Howard streets...

LOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger's alleged history of groping women, if proved, is unlawful and could have exposed the acto...

Employment Column - By Deanna Wilkinson - Fall recruiting has begun. Law firms from all over the country are descending on law...

Forum Column - By Richard C. Darwin - On May 21, the state Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and International Trade and t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Members of the California Employment Lawyers Association will be buzzing today about this week's federal appea...

SAN FRANCISCO - The word in the San Francisco criminal courts is that recently re-appointed Superior Court Judge Mary Morgan w...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco health commissioner, indicted last month on charges that he intentionally infected two ...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department faces an uphill battle in trying to get to the bottom of allegations that White House offi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit that threatened to derail logging on tens of thousands of acres of land owned by Pacific Lumber Co. ...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sheri Bluebond is a woman of varied talents. Bluebond can help an ailing company get back ...

LOS ANGELES - Roman Catholic archdioceses from other states that knowingly send their pedophile clergy to California can be su...

SAN FRANCISCO - Medical marijuana advocates who support District Attorney Terence Hallinan for re-election are behind the ethi...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the Los Angeles Times Thursday accused a Sacramento Superior Court judge of violating the First Amen...

LOS ANGELES - Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis delivered a stern sermon against abortion, the death penalty and stem-cell...

SAN FRANCISCO - Forcing parolees to give blood for a federal DNA database is a violation of Fourth Amendment protections again...

MARTINEZ - The woman was near tears telling Contra County Superior Court Judge Theresa Canepa why she missed a court date. Her...

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County judge ordered the Los Angeles County sheriff's union to halt the deputy sickouts that closed fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Uncertainty and defections at the New York Stock Exchange have left legal observers wondering how the role of ...

Forum Column - By Daniel H. Lowenstein - The blocking of the California recall election by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S....

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Robert A. Holland and Hieu T. Hoang - Experienced appellate advocates know that they must ne...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Benjamin D. Scheibe - Consider the following scenario: The defendant, who has been p...

Forum Column - By Francis T. Fahy - Thomas Friedman's vitriol against France in "France is Becoming Enemy of the United States...

SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday appointed an assistant U.S. attorney and a former federal prosecutor to the San Diego...

LOS ANGELES - After 12 years under the supervision of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ernest M. Hiroshige, the high-profile a...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has affirmed a $2.25 million judgment in favor of Beverly Hills attorney and businessman L...

LOS ANGELES - Upholding the state Vehicle Code for felony evading arrest, an appeals court has rejected claims that the law re...

LOS ANGELES - David Arthur Cathcart, a nationally prominent attorney in labor and employment law, died Tuesday of cancer at hi...

LOS ANGELES - Verizon Communications Inc., the biggest U.S. local-telephone company, has agreed to pay $20 million to settle a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stepping into a fight that began in a trial court elevator, a state appeal court has reversed an order prohibi...

Reporter's Notebook - By Xenia P. Kobylarz - Last year, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave an unusual gift to s...