SAN FRANCISCO - A world-renowned DNA scientist who is the pivotal witness for the University of California in its patent infr...

New York's Proskauer Rose has recruited labor and employment lawyer Arthur F. Silbergeld for its Los Angeles office along wit...

RIVERSIDE - When Otha Lee Tucker was pulled over by Riverside police last year on suspicion of carjacking, officers allege th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney John Lyons, suspended from work since November, has returned to regular court duties ...

Prosecutors said burglary and domestic violence defendant Sagi Mukatin was dissatisfied with the legal representation he rece...

Come Jan. 1, four or five major providers of legal services to the poor in the San Francisco Bay area will lose their federal...

DENVER - Lawsuits could proliferate as a result of Tuesday's fatal shootings at Columbine High School, and the nation's lates...

Higgs, Fletcher & Mack has acquired McInnis Fitzgerald Rees & Sharkey, with 21 lawyers joining one of San Diego's old...

Prominent litigator and rainmaker Barbara A. Reeves is leaving Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker to join the...

Due to the anonymous nature of Internet chat rooms, a Woodland Hills man could not have known for certain the age of the pers...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government can charge ship owners for the costs of watching over the company's shoulders as worke...

A proposed $4.2 billion budget for fiscal 1999-2000 for the city of Los Angeles released Tuesday includes funding for City At...

VICTORVILLE - A jury has found a High Desert couple guilty of killing their 5-year-old son, but delivered mixed verdicts on p...

State Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, will amend his bill on the State Bar this week to give the bar the dues amount it wants a...

A toy company whose plant caught fire in a fatal blast has sued a toy-cap manufacturer whose products are being blamed for th...

As the prosecution's key witness took the stand Tuesday in the Operation Casablanca money-laundering case, defense attorneys ...

WASHINGTON - Congress in 1996 passed a far-reaching set of welfare and immigration laws that made life tougher for legal immi...

WASHINGTON - It's late April. Do you know where your judges are? That is what Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are...

In its first public action since a dramatic realignment, the state judicial discipline panel hastened to resolve the divisive...

A judge granted a permanent injunction Monday against a man who told police last month that he fantasizes about killing Cardi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Few knew online trading would become an instant success when it hit the cyber-bazaar about three years ago. T...

SANTA MARIA - Five men driving on Highway 166 plunged into the raging Cuyama River in February 1998 after flood-swollen water...

The Los Angeles County Municipal Court judges have given Presiding Judge Veronica S. McBeth the nod to call for another vote ...

In another example of a cure that's sometimes worse than the disease, a girl named Carla, who was placed in foster care in Lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury awarded $755,000 in damages for civil rights violations and punitive damages to a transsexual ...

Recommendations to increase the number of staff attorneys in the county counsel's office would nearly double the number of po...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a bitter dispute between two lesbians, a state appeal court refused Monday to grant visitation righ...

SACRAMENTO - California is one of only 15 states that provides no state funding for legal aid programs. Public interest advoc...

SACRAMENTO - Reigniting a debate that intertwines the law, medicine, ethics and the profoundly personal, a Bay Area lawmaker ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley-based Cooley Godward, which specializes in representing emerging growth and technology compani...