Scott P. Shaw and other defense attorneys say they are trying to hold back a flood of copyright suits being filed by fabric de...

The California Supreme Court on Thursday made it tougher for people to sue businesses for product liability. ...

A jury has awarded $9.9 million to a former oil refinery worker who alleged his cancer was caused by exposure to asbestos duri...

A Hong Kong-based toy manufacturer has reached the biggest settlement yet in a series of patent infringement lawsuits against ...

A federal judge has ruled Marilyn Monroe was a New Yorker at the time of her death, not a Californian as her estate's counsel ...

San Francisco mediator Robert M. Smith has traveled many professional roads throughout his career. His variety of experience h...

Cornerstone Research is reporting the number of securities class actions settled last year rose 21 percent, from 92 to 111 in ...

City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo sued a development company whose affordable-housing projects are heavily subsidized by the city...

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - The recent $100 million-plus award to 100,000 Starbucks "baristas" reveals the imp...

Focus Column - By Jarod Buna - A judge's decision this week to strike down proposed patent rules has created a cloud of uncert...

Letters to the Editor - Mark Tuft's article on March 24, "Rule Changes Bring Up Issues for Both Lawyers and the Public," notes...

Forum Column - By Pamela Hartman - Seemingly minor court policies reflect a lack of respect for immigrants and carelessness ab...

Attorney Terry N. Christensen on Thursday served a restraining order on a reporter who published phone conversations that feat...

A state appellate panel has rejected a consumer lawsuit that accuses state regulators of shirking their statutory duty to prot...

Online roommate-matching Web site Roommates.com is not immune from liability for housing discrimination, and much of a lawsuit...

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The California Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with the intractable problem of restoring the environmental health of the B...

Jurors Wednesday finally heard a tape of a phone call allegedly wiretapped by Anthony Pellicano. Federal prosecutors have call...

Focus Column - By Roderick E. Walston - Although the Supreme Court's tilt toward federalism seems to have waned, the court may...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Parents who are in denial and won’t have their child assessed for autism risk denying him ...

An eclectic mix of lawyers is running for election to the State Bar's Board of Governors, including an attorney from one of Sa...

Former Gov. Gray Davis stumbled over his hard-line no-parole policy when he rejected freeing an inmate who spent 20 years in p...

A Superior Court jury has awarded $1.48 million to the wife of an 87-year-old Alzheimer's patient who was killed on a rain-sli...

Forum Column - By Bryan A. Liang - The recent heparin case illustrates the dangers that foreign-made drugs pose to American ci...

A Norco grandmother who tried to block a group home for developmentally disabled women is suing state housing authorities, cla...

Despite serving on a three-judge panel with no dissenting members, J. Clifford Wallace has called for en banc review of circui...

California Attorney General Jerry Brown, joining a coalition of states and environmental groups, sued the federal Environmenta...

The city of Half Moon Bay will allow a developer to build on contested land under a settlement that ends a 15-year legal battl...

The en banc business is booming at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals four months after Alex Kozinski became chief judge. ...

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