SAN FRANCISCO - Eight first-year associates were laid off Thursday from Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hac...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Hells Angel who was unconstitutionally denied entry to the Sonoma County Fair because he was wearing his mot...

SAN JOSE - After years of pretrial maneuvering, a potentially ground-breaking lawsuit accusing International Business Machines...

LOS ANGELES - The Anschutz Entertainment Group has hired Weston Benshoof Rochefort & Rubalcava to tackle land use and envi...

LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo said Thursday that it is merging its name and management structure wi...

COMPTON - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rose Hom is attuned to effectiveness, and to her, that means settlements. Hom belie...

LOS ANGELES - While the media has portrayed batterer intervention programs as a waste of time and money, those on the front li...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Matthew P. Kanny and Jonathan M. Eisenberg - Service of a summons and complaint by e-mail is co...

LOS ANGELES - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed with the district attorney's office and other law enfor...

Forum Column by Eileen C. Moore - The recent article about Proposition 227 supporting English immersion in classrooms causes m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Inmates have no constitutional right to procreate, even through artificial insemination by mail, a federal app...

WASHINGTON - A Pennsylvania judge's promotion to the federal appeals court advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Thur...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that would add new protections for corporate whistleblowers and punish executives with hefty fines for ...

Dicta Column - Brickner's Bits - By David H. Brickner - Use funny trial moments to gain good will from the jury.

Employment Column - By Martha Fay Africa - Layoffs are on everyone's mind. Who hasn't been called by a lawyer they barely kno...

Dicta Column - Managing the Media - By Richard S. Levick - What do you do when a partner has been arrested? When a partner com...

Forum Column by Betty Raskoff Kazmin - "[Students do not] shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression ...

LOS ANGELES - Developers and land use attorneys expressed frustration Wednesday at signs that a $450-million football stadium ...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed civil litigators Amy D. Hogue, Gregory Keosian and Charles F. Palmer to the Los An...

9TH CIRCUIT NOMINEE - The White House announced Wednesday that President Bush intends to nominate Jay S. Bybee to the 9th Circ...

Forum Column - By members of the State Bar Board of Governors - During the past few weeks, an article by Matthew E. Cavanaugh,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Katherine Feinstein wakes up every day with a high profile name and heads off to work at a decidedly low profi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Mateo civil litigator Marie S. Weiner, who sits on the State Bar's Board of Governors, has been ap...

Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Privacy rights often conflict directly with legitimate employer in...

SAN BERNARDINO - After 33 years behind bars, Leslie Van Houten is almost a political prisoner, her supporters say. Van Houten'...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former City Attorney Louise Renne and a top aide, Jonathan V. Holtzman, have launched a private law firm in Sa...

Column by Garry Abrams - After long ducking the issue, the Walt Disney Co. has conceded publicly that it potentially faces a h...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - California public policy is intended to protect the interests of children by requiring par...

SAN BERNARDINO - Frank Cardinal, a well-known Rancho Cucamonga criminal defense lawyer who has defended suspects in numerous h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hearing a case involving prominent San Francisco criminal defense lawyer Patrick Hallinan, a panel of the 1st ...