SAN FRANCISCO - Current settlement talks between the University of California and Genentech Inc., over the biotech firm's all...

VENTURA - The deputy prosecutors and public defenders of Ventura County are expected to receive substantial pay raises over t...

The rapid growth of the high-technology market in San Diego came into focus this week when San Francisco-based Morrison &...

SACRAMENTO - A coalition made up largely of major insurers and business groups took the first step Tuesday toward placing a r...

SANTA ANA - He fit the portrait of any other canvasser, handing out flyers on a Huntington Beach street corner last July Four...

RIVERSIDE - A precedent on the use of statistical analysis of DNA evidence could emerge from a death-penalty case scheduled t...

The decade-long saga of fugitive Italian financier and former Hollywood mogul Giancarlo Parretti reached another climax Tuesd...

Thanks to a personal computer and the credit card in his wallet, Mark Eisele of North Carolina recently lost $15,000 gambling...

CHULA VISTA - Few people know kids the way Ernest Borunda does. Twenty-eight years ago, while a sole practitioner, he was ass...

In a verdict that reportedly is the largest trademark infringement judgment in U.S. history, a Los Angeles federal court jury...

A memorial service will be held Wednesday for John Bayne, a special-education rights advocate and legal malpractice defense l...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith C. Chirlin has received the 1999 Distinguished Service Award of the National Center f...

DENVER - A Michigan attorney representing the family of a Columbine shooting victim should not be allowed to sue in Colorado ...

SAN JOSE - The contentious battle for the top prosecutor's job in Santa Cruz County is taking shape. Former acting district a...

SAN BERNARDINO - An attorney charged with criminal conspiracy and a host of other crimes in what one official has termed one ...

The political chaos that set Stuart Hanlon's course as a young radical lawyer is back on his docket. In 1974 Hanlon was a thi...

By Chris Ford There was a time not long ago when the Internet was viewed as a latter-day Wild West. There were no rules and u...

By Leslie A. Gordon Bed sores, falls and broken bones are nightmares for anyone. But they're a particular burden for lawyers ...

MEDIATION KEEPS HOMEOWNER SWINGING In a matter that gives new meaning to three-strikes offenses, an attorney recently mediate...

Money Matters Reversing the Tide of Bankruptcy Filings Requires Community Outreach By Maureen A. Tighe The upsurge in nationw...

By Jennifer Byrd The year was 1984, but San Francisco lawyer Eva Jefferson Paterson felt like it was still the 1950s. Paterso...

Outside California, E-filing is Closer to Reality By Chris Ford While California courts talk about electronic filing, other j...

Pillsbury Madison XEROX MAKES COLORFUL COPY A NEW ACQUISITION Xerox's document division closed its biggest deal in nearly 20 ...

By Mark Radcliffe and Maureen Dorney In early November in Los Angeles, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number...

BAKERSFIELD - A Bakersfield man set free after 15 years in prison by a judge who ruled prosecutors failed to turn over key ev...

Labeling as "reckless and dangerous" the Los Angeles district attorney's policy of conducting background checks on its prosec...

REDLANDS - The Lockheed Martin Corp. 's agreement to pay the city here $3.7 million for the cost of cleaning up contaminated ...

By Don Thornburgh and Jill Westmoreland In the world of telecommunications, "convergence" is not just another technology catc...

Legislation passed in a surprising vote by the U.S. House of Representatives late last week giving patients a wide range of ri...