SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick S. Hallinan started smoking on the advice of counsel. The deep drags on Camel filters he inhales thes...

A Los Angeles law firm claims in a lawsuit that the Vatican Library owes it more than $1.2 million in attorney fees and costs...

In an attempt to spare a convicted welfare cheat from a state prison term, her lawyer argued she was being used as fodder for...

The accounting firm of Ernst & Young has agreed to pay the Chapter 7 bankruptcy estate of Merry-Go-Round Enterprises Inc....

SAN FRANCISCO - A patent that spooked thousands of Internet commerce companies is now before the Federal Circuit Court of App...

Taking advantage of city rules that allow him to start his campaign two years before the election, Los Angeles City Councilma...

WASHINGTON - What could prove to be the definitive battle on the regulation - and perhaps banning - of tobacco products moved...

SACRAMENTO - With a one-page order, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday formally granted Gov. Gray Davis' request...

RIVERSIDE - Three years ago, Margaret Spencer became public defender of Riverside County. At the time, she gave an interview ...

Pez dispensers might seem an unlikely candidate to single-handedly jump start the initial public offering market that stalled ...

A question for patent litigators: Would you pay $75,000 for 15,000 display boards, any of which would be available at a moment...

Barry S. Levin , the new chairman of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe , has been groomed for the job since he joined the fi...

James H. Davis, a once-prominent former plaintiffs' attorney, was arraigned Friday in Los Angeles Municipal Court on charges ...

BIO, the country's largest biotechnology industry trade group, is holding its annual conference in May. And conference sponso...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case a dissenter likened to "Les Miserables," a state appeal panel has held that a homeless man who brok...

JAMS/Endispute indicated Friday it is standing behind mediator Luis A. Cardenas, who is currently under investigation by the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco whistle-blower case that touched off federal review of alleged price-gouging in the municipal...

SACRAMENTO - The auto insurance reform picture has become a bit clearer in the Capitol, with support building for a plan to l...

SAN JOSE - The business of assigning Internet addresses is open to competition beginning today, as five new companies have be...

By Tom Orewyler Maybe credit finance expert Peter Carson of Cooley Godward is lucky that his major clients do not include eit...

RIVERSIDE - A cup of morning coffee tossed at the side of his truck was all the motivation Jaime Chavez needed last December ...

WASHINGTON - Californians can hear broadcast ads that tout casino gambling in Nevada, thanks to a 1997 decision from the 9th ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three years ago, then-Assemblyman Bill Morrow of Oceanside decided to put the squeeze on trial judges who fai...

A retired Orange County judge is being investigated by state discipline authorities for allegedly releasing dozens of crimina...

Saying better pay was needed to attract and retain highly qualified judges, a Judicial Council committee will recommend a sal...

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said Thursday they have no new leads in the March 18 shooting deat...

Saying he wants to correct the "wrong message" his office has been sending to juvenile offenders, Los Angeles County District...

A drug-dealing state narcotics officer stole a massive amount of cocaine from an evidence locker and sold it through an ex-gi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A blowup over attorney fees in two exploding propane barbecue cases was brought one step closer to resolution...

Nicole Stone starved to death last September in the Lancaster home she shared with her developmentally disabled mother. After...