SAN FRANCISCO - Three of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's largest remaining practice groups found new homes Wednesday, as th...
SAN FRANCISCO - At Anthony Taylor's Los Angeles murder trial 12 years ago, the state's two chief witnesses both recanted the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite repeated warnings from city health and building officials, longtime San Francisco Deputy Public Defen...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Circuit Strikes AT&T's Consumer Contracts
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel handed a landmark arbitration victory to seven million California consumers Tuesday, ...
LOS ANGELES - If Hollywood moguls are casting around for a sequel to the hit Leonardo DiCaprio movie, "Catch Me If You Can," ...
From Staff Reports SAN FRANCISCO - Friends will celebrate the life and career of feminist attorney and Equal Rights Advocates...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles today is expected to become the largest city in the nation to force city contractors to extend bene...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey C. Eglash - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners - the civilian body charged with overseein...
LOS ANGELES - Accusing Lyon & Lyon of squandering money on attorney and staff salaries, a landlord owed $2.7 million by t...
LOS ANGELES - Another partner from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, the debt-laden San Francisco firm that intends to shut it...
SACRAMENTO - For the second year in a row, criminal defense lawyers are trying to pass a bill in the Legislature that would i...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Disclosure Rules May Apply to Party-Appointed Arbitrators
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - A well-drafted arbitration clause will specify the numbe...
LOS ANGELES - A government-funded community bank founded to foster development in riot-ravaged South Central Los Angeles does...
LOS ANGELES - Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones, the uber-bankruptcy boutique with offices in California, New York a...
LOS ANGELES - Product liability and medical malpractice attorney Alexander B.T. Cobb died Jan. 4 in a car accident near his h...
SAN FRANCISCO - A complicated kickback scheme between a high-ranking San Francisco technology officer and a Washington state ...
LOS ANGELES - Just two months after the defection of his longtime colleague Laurence Pretty, partner Robert Schroeder also is...
Focus Column Family Law By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus A spouse who can effectively conceal income and assets may ...
Large Firms
In-House and Out-House Treachery Sealed Brobeck's Wretched Fate
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams LOS ANGELES - Steven Zager, thy name is mud, or worse, in some quarters. In fact, I believe that Zager...
Intellectual Property
Intouch Loses Another Round in Its Online Music Battle
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has imposed sanctions against Intouch Group Inc. of San Francisco for pursuing a frivolous in...
Forum Column By Peter H. Meyers The Bush administration's smallpox vaccination program contains a very serious omission. It f...
SAN FRANCISCO - Employees at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison are threatening to sue their firm for asking them to continue wor...
WASHINGTON - Engaged in a test of strength and will, senators on Monday debated for a third day the nomination of Miguel A. E...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Upstart Bar Group Aims For Conservative County
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - A national bar association with powerful conservative connections has set its sights on Orange County as a beachh...
Forum Column By Fred Silberberg The frequency with which orders concerning a party's personal conduct are issued is much high...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco prosecutor accused of defrauding and embezzling funds from an NBA player while serving as his...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a jury instruction commonly given in sexual assault cases is n...
The addition of three more environmental lawyers at San Francisco's Farella Braun + Martel is welcome growth for a practice gr...
Costa Mesa's Albert, Weiland & Golden has added John D. Ott as a senior attorney. Ott, who focuses on commercial litigati...
When Jamie MacMillan was asked by a client to retool his services, he didn't expect that it would result in his own company. ...