WASHINGTON - In 1992, California tax officials concluded that inventor Gilbert P. Hyatt had falsely reported moving from Orang...

Forum Column - By Peter M. Douglas - As usual, when Michael M. Berger gets on his soapbox to bash the Coastal Commission, his ...

RIVERSIDE - District Attorney Grover Trask on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Commission on Judicial Performance charging t...

MONTEREY - As the State Bar's 2002 annual meeting drew to a close Sunday, so too did its lively but controversial offspring, t...

SANTA ANA - The inner workings of judicial politicking were revealed Tuesday when Orange County judicial candidate Gay Sandova...

LOS ANGELES - The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad has selected San Francisco's Morrison & ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sexual harassment suit filed against an upscale Napa County restaurant is causing tremors in San Francisco. ...

Focus Column - Business Law - By Antonio R. Sarabia II and William J. Kopesky - A client may ask its regular civil counsel to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bernida Reagan, the founder and former director of the East Bay Community Law Center, has received the State B...

SACRAMENTO - There is an incongruous, intimate atmosphere surrounding the monthly meetings of the state Fair Political Practic...

Forum Column - By D. Malcolm Carson - Given the traffic congestion and air pollution that literally and figuratively choke Cal...

SACRAMENTO - Republican state Sen. Dick Ackerman was not his party's first choice to run for attorney general against Bill Loc...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has twice in the past few months issued orders that environmentalists say should have h...

LOS ANGELES - She's a hippie, a rich Westside liberal, a sacrificial lamb for O.J. Simpson. These are just a few of the explan...

Column by Garry Abrams - The saga of Frode Jensen, the former Pillsbury Winthrop partner who tried to jump ship to Latham &...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco doctor's 1998 protest of physician layoffs at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital may have ...

LOS ANGELES - Reports that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has failed to investigate more than 800 claims of deput...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher T. Micheletti - In Tie Tech Inc. v. Kinedyne Corp., 296 F.3d 778 ...

Column by Noelle C. Nelson - Good cases often are lost by lawyers who unwittingly alienate jurors. Jurors expect attorneys to ...

While his departure may not be on par with those of James Elacqua and Tower Snow, Kevin DeBr's decision to leave Brobeck, Phle...

Harvey L. Silbert, a noted businessman, entertainment lawyer and philanthropist, died at his home in Century City on Sept. 28....

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman have reunited but not for the reason their fans wish they would. No, they're not back together ag...

Southern California attorney Michael A. J. Nangano enjoys litigation - perhaps too much. Nangano, 42, sued the law office that...

Katherine A. Bacal is the newest litigation partner in the San Diego office of Baker & McKenzie. The Chicago-based firm an...

Column by By David A. Gerber - Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68 permits a defendant to serve an offer of judgment. Unless th...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe continues the steady growth of its 19-attorney London office with the addition of partner J...

Preston Gates & Ellis has added a pair of litigators to the firm's Washington, D.C., office, Preston Gates Ellis & Rou...

Column by By Linda H. Wyner - The media frenzy over dog attacks and animal rights raised in the Diane Whipple dog-mauling case...

Stephen V. Love, former chief deputy director of the California's Administrative Office of the Courts, will become executive o...

Westmont College has obtained $22.5 million in tax-exempt financing, which will help spruce up its Santa Barbara campus. ...