WASHINGTON - Early in 1999, U.S. District Judge Fern M. Smith of San Francisco saw a letter soliciting candidates for the job ...

Unlawful Detainer Registry Inc. is a California corporation that obtains data on residential tenants, compiles it into a datab...

Focus Column - By Marcelius McRae and Joel Athey - You are sitting at your desk when you receive a telephone call from a long-...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Last month, our nation celebrated Memorial Day, a day dedicated to those who lost their li...

Without his well-known sense of humor, Los Angeles attorney William G. Baumgaertner would have had a hard time recently defend...

Column by Robert S. Mann - In medieval England, if you were fortunate enough to live in an enclosed structure and even more fo...

Column by Tara Castro Narayanan - It goes without saying that an item of damage specifically excluded on an insurance policy c...

After listening to a presentation at a golf club about a proposed Orange County housing development, local resident Deborah S....

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge ordered government prosecutors Thursday to turn over to defense attorneys copies of 50 compute...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Deputy Attorney General Zaven V. Sinanian and Gloria L. White-Brown, a South Coast...

SACRAMENTO - For the first time in the 90-year-history of the office of the Legislative counsel, the California Legislature ap...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors filed 18 felony charges Thursday against a Mission Viejo temporary office worker accused of planting r...

LOS ANGELES - Cleveland's Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue has expanded its Southern California intellectual property litigation...

Forum Column - By David M. Reeder - A newly enacted general order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Cal...

LOS ANGELES - Two anti-racketeering lawsuits, a pair of paternity suits, a potential grand jury investigation and numerous civ...

SAN DIEGO - A defense attorney for David A. Westerfield on Thursday continued to probe the parents of slain second-grader Dani...

LOS ANGELES - There is no litigation hell quite like that offered by the Catholic Church, which in the past decade has resorte...

SAN FRANCISCO - Declaring that they are not "copyright thieves," five owners of the controversial digital recording device Rep...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fathers Day came a week early for an East Bay man who will be allowed to parent a six-year-old boy despite the...

LOS ANGELES - The two little girls sat in the courtroom dressed in their frilly Sunday best, waiting for their turn with the l...

SAN FRANCISCO - David Geyer, the former Brobeck Phleger & Harrison marketing director who launched the firm's nationwide t...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a major interpretation of international discovery rights, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday for the fi...

Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Mentoring is critical in the career development of lawyers. Few lawyers become succe...

Dicta Column - By Richard J. Simmons - Law firms of all sizes are increasingly concerned about legal disputes with their emplo...

Focus Column - By David M. Reeder - A newly enacted general order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Cal...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - It has been a while since the maxim about rendering different things unto Caesar and God...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with the tension between the privacy rights of peace officers and a ...

LOS ANGELES - California Chief Justice Ronald M. George is troubled by the use of electric stun belts to control defendants du...

LOS ANGELES - While former Compton Mayor Omar Bradley's election challenge to current Mayor Eric Perrodin is on appeal, Bradle...

Column by Garry Abrams - The highly publicized firm meltdown and partner-snatching contest at San Francisco's once high-flying...