Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey A. Berman and Kerry McCoy - 2002 has brought significant developments in the ongoin...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - The Solano County district attorney's office is adding a pair of prosecutors in Janua...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - In 2001, when the U.S. Supreme Court was reviewing a challenge to set-aside rules that auto...

LOS ANGELES - Some civil attorneys may be bleary-eyed on New Year's Day, but it won't be from partying. Many defense lawyers p...

SAN JOSE - Employment law attorneys waited for months for the California Supreme Court to clear up the controversy about whet...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis on Monday chose his chief deputy legal affairs secretary, Shelleyanne W.L. Chang, for a seat ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has upheld a controversial $5 use fee for national forests across the country but said ...

LOS ANGELES - A Monrovia law requiring public school children to be off the streets during school hours is constitutional beca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Violent criminals got little sympathy from the California Supreme Court in 2002. Juvenile offenders got stiff...

By Liz Valsamis With the recruitment of partner David R. Garcia from Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers, Sheppard, Mulli...

By Liz Valsamis Riverside's Best Best & Krieger has added another partner to its year-old Sacramento outpost. Ann Siprell...

A school official is liable for not meeting a boy's needs. Page XX. By Joan Osterwalder Parents of special education children...

By Liz Valsamis Former vice chair of Walt Disney Co. Sanford "Sandy" Litvack has left Dewey Ballantine a year after joining t...

By Toni Vranjes Newport Beach attorney Shiv Grewal was born in India, and the corporate and securities partner still has a sp...

By Liz Valsamis All Stuart Liner's clients have to do is press a button and he'll dance for as long as they want him to. And,...

Siding maker prevails in suit brought by homeowners. Page XX By Joan Osterwalder In the first case against Dryvit Systems Inc...

SAN FRANCISCO - A construction defect litigation fix-it bill that takes effect with the new year promises sweeping changes fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Best didn't start out intending to become the resident tech-head of the San Francisco Superior Court. ...

LOS ANGELES - Expanding its insurance, reinsurance and insolvency practices, Santa Monica's Alschuler Grossman Stein & Ka...

PASADENA - The years have slipped by quickly for this son of working-class Mexican immigrants, who rose by personal determinat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Muslim inmates at Vacaville State Prison have won an important court battle that allows them to continue atte...

MARTINEZ - Judge Laurel Brady will have both joyous and onerous tasks ahead of her Thursday when she assumes the office of pr...

RIVERSIDE - Bryan Mason felt something "pop" in his lower back last year as he lifted 625 pounds in a high-school weight-train...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has thrown out a malicious prosecution lawsuit brought by one set of attorneys against a...

Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Daniel L. McConaughy and Chad C. Coombs - Real options include nonfinancial attributes and b...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed three new judges for Orange and San Diego counties. Kerry Wells, a deputy district...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has recruited securities, health care and commerc...

BASS LAKE - Being the judge in a one-judge town like Bass Lake, population 400, might not sound as exciting as prosecuting hig...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner gets some of the most horrific cases in the county in her cou...

Forum Column - By Joseph Herman, Peter K. Stris and Jason H. Wilson - On Jan. 1, 2003, SB1156 and AB2596 will take effect. The...