Forum Column By Kevin B. Zeese Marney Craig is a middle-class Caucasian woman with a good job, fine family and clear sense of ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Monday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that extended the deadline for victi...

Forum Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - It makes prosecutors nervous when judges go outside their traditional roles. Therefore,...

LOS ANGELES - Television director and science fiction film writer Ib Melchior can continue to fight New Line Productions Inc....

By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether law enforcem...

LOS ANGELES - The lawyer for private investigator Anthony Pellicano said Monday that gun charges against his client should be...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan on Monday invoked his past as a civil libertarian and his current role as t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense lawyer Bill Fazio, a longtime rival for San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan's jo...

WASHINGTON - Weighing a major consumer-protection issue, the Supreme Court justices indicated Monday that they will not allow...

Column By Garry Abrams - Roll over and squeal. No, this is not a line from the movie "Deliverance." It's part of the federal g...

SAN JOSE - The acquittal of a Russian software company of copyright violation charges under the Digital Millennium Copyright A...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer wants 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex...

Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - In negligence and breach-of-fiduciary-duty cases arising from an attorney...

SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest defense contractor won tactical victories in two California Supreme Court decisions Monday...

SAN DIEGO -District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis on Monday began putting her stamp on the department she wrested from Paul Pfingst...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether law enforcement officers can be held liable for damages if...

BY REX HIME To date, nearly 2000 bills have been introduced. Legislation of interest to CBPA members just introduced include: ...

Teachers expect juicy red apples on Teacher Appreciation Day. Secretaries get special attention - probably a large vase of flo...

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to buy Sunnyvale's Scios Inc. for $2.4 billion in cash to enhance its biotechnology arsenal. ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS CARLOTTA - Taking a cue from Bridgeville, the small Northern California town sold on the Internet auction blo...

ASSOCIATED PRESS GOLETA - Builders say there's a chill in Goleta. Higher development fees for bigger roads, bike routes and m...

Milton Stewart decided early last year that his firm needed to do a better job developing new business. The economy was in the...

It's not the stuff of "Joe Millionaire," "Survivor" or the myriad other reality shows flooding America's television sets, but ...

As law firms scrambled to hire Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison attorneys, a Greenville, S.C.-based labor an employment law bou...

Cooley Godward picked up a pair of patent attorneys last month. Roberta Robins and Dahna Pasternak both joined the firm as pa...

San Diego-based Jack in the Box Inc. has acquired Qdoba Restaurant Corp., making it the latest fast-food chain to expand into ...

With a room full of 400 mediation and arbitration professionals, you can bet the stories of who's settled the toughest cases w...

Boston Properties Inc. has executed a lease at Times Square Tower with Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers, the office buildin...

Longtime San Diego County Superior Court Judge Lawrence W. Stirling is leaving the bench to become a lobbyist, he announced j...

Energy and environmental law practices are slow these days, but that hasn't prevented Nixon Peabody from building its West Coa...