San Diego's Bacalski, Byrne, Koska & Ottoson has added a veteran litigator to its ranks. Bruce Bailey joined last month fr...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Joseph L. Beachboard - In an important decision for professional corporations and many othe...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Randy L. Turtle - A 2001 newspaper article disclosed a surprising and disturbing fact: Evidence...

Forum Column - By Bill Lockyer - Deputy Attorney General Joel Davis' recent column entitled "Improper Fidelities: Attorney Gen...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The United States is about to embark on the largest post-war reconstruction project since ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Noting he has been disciplined twice for similar misconduct, a panel of special masters has found that Alameda...

LOS ANGELES - Duane Morris has scooped up a dozen insurance coverage lawyers from San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Sc...

OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court plans to roll out two filing innovations that will make it easier for litigants to get...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Lichtman has announced plans to run for assistant presiding judge for 200...

SAN FRANCISCO - A special Judicial Council panel has given its approval to easing the strict "fast track" rules that govern th...

SAN FRANCISCO - A husband who intended that his sperm be used by a fertility clinic to create embryos to impregnate his wife i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal trial judges now face what one senator has called a "judicial blacklist" created by Congress if they i...

MARTINEZ - During her nearly 20 years on the bench in Contra Costa County, Superior Court Judge Barbara Ziga has juggled high-...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Annual profits per partner are seen widely as the measuring stick for law-firm su...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael D. Singer - Class-action counsel now may communicate freely with proposed class members...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Next year's Pentagon budget will be $400 billion. While the Pentagon will be spending t...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney who was disqualified from defending Rubio's Baja Grill after he told a judge that he represented bot...

LOS ANGELES - A district attorney's investigator testified Thursday that he relied heavily on investigative reports prepared b...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has hired intellectual property rainmaker Claude M. Ster...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for three San Francisco police officers indicted for assault in connection with a Union Street braw...

LOS ANGELES - The 2 nd District Court of Appeal Thursday upheld a $5.1 million verdict against Nestle USA Inc., that the compa...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - There are now a dozen other court buildings in Alameda County, but the Oakland Ren C....

SAN FRANCISCO - A Menlo Park medical device company pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 criminal counts of failing to report malfun...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn joined with activists and officials from federal and local governments Thursday ...

SAN FRANCISCO - If an insurance policy explicitly limits coverage to the "collapse" of a house, the state Supreme Court said ...

Reporter's Notebook - By Donna Domino - Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the technical complexities of this in...

Forum Column - By David Kirby - As the summer concert season begins, property owners and partygoers will discover how federal ...

Focus Column - By Carl Pearlston - There is a classic slapstick comedy routine in which two men converge on a doorway and each...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - From a practical perspective, California's statutory settlement scheme...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - In the fifth significant decision interpreting the state's m...