Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Virtually every day there is a story in the media regarding the war on terrorism and the g...

Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Leslie A. Cohen and Craig G. Margulies - The assignability of a contract or lease is a crit...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has hit a lower Nob Hill landlord with a half-million-dollar civil penalty for renting...

SAN DIEGO - In response to motions by David A. Westerfield's lawyers to spare him from the death penalty, prosecutors say that...

SAN PEDRO - Commissioner Beverly Mosley remembered Calvin as a respectful, sweet boy. He had been a student in Mosley's sixth-...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three more litigators have left Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May as a result of the firm's merger wi...

Column By Garry Abrams - The law of gravity is not well understood in Los Angeles. This sad and embarrassing fact got its annu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Like a judicial tsunami, a state appellate court all but wiped out the California Coastal Commission on Monda...

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...