FOCUS COLUMN - By Rod S. Berman and Brian W. Kasell - The Supreme Court just spoke on a thorny procedural issue in patent liti...

SAN FRANCISCO - About 30 organizations that provide legal services and education to California's diverse population will get a...

Four San Francisco police officers who shot and killed a teenager riding in a fugitive's car in 1998 cannot be disciplined bec...

WASHINGTON - The White House appeared to back down Tuesday night over a territorial fight with California's senators concernin...

LOS ANGELES - If you were a kid in the '80s, had a kid in the '80s or acted like a kid in the '80s, you remember the sound Sup...

A top Bush administration official has touched a raw nerve by condemning major law firms for representing terrorism detainees....

A divided federal appeals court Tuesday vacated the 22-year sentence of an al-Qaida terrorist who planned to blow up Los Angel...

SACRAMENTO - A nonprofit child advocacy group proposed Tuesday that the state contribute more financial assistance to help fos...

FORUM COLUMN - By Mark Harrington - Who knew there were so many ways to aggravate in-house lawyers? The general counsel of Gui...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys who have appeared before veteran Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brett C. Klein have decidedly...

Sylvia Resnick considers herself "a pretty peppy person," despite her senior-citizen status. So it took a serious back spasm f...

LOS ANGELES - Miriam A. Vogel grew up under a billboard. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - International litigation firm Howrey kicked off 2007 by adding six attorneys to four of its offices, including...

WASHINGTON - For the third time this term, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circu...

SAN JOSE - A Colorado man's guilty plea to federal conspiracy and aggravated identity-theft charges in the Hewlett-Packard spy...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert L. Eisenbach III - What if you ship goods to a company that goes bankrupt? Some recent legal developm...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge is set to rule on the constitutionality of a controversial provision that forbids state and lo...

LOS ANGELES - Change is never easy. But for a group of former panel attorneys in Los Angeles County's dependency courts, being...

FORUM COLUMN - By Richard M. Mosk - One of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants was a prominent judge in Iraq. Appellate-court Justi...

LOS ANGELES - Saying that Joshua Mogin brings expertise in an area of law the firm is "sorely underrepresented on the West Coa...

LOS ANGELES - A week after receiving permission to represent himself against charges of racketeering and wiretapping, onetime ...

SACRAMENTO - Newly sworn Attorney General Jerry Brown has named David Chaney as his chief assistant attorney general in charge...

LOS ANGELES - An old college friend opened the door for intellectual property lawyer Allan Jansen to jump from Jones Day to Gr...

Santa Clara County officials were wrong to threaten a deputy public defender with insubordination if he didn't fess up about m...

LOS ANGELES - By focusing too much on abstract legal analysis and not enough on the practicalities and consequences of practic...

The Orange County Superior Court judges have elected Edward W. Hall a commissioner.

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith elevated 11 attorneys to partner in the firm's California offices.

WALNUT CREEK - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Clayton Mills launched a courtroom rant that made lawyers wince ...

Longtime workers' compensation lawyer and trial attorney Sheldon H. Penn died on Dec. 28 after a brief illness, from iatrogeni...

COLUMN - By Peter Blumberg - San Francisco jurors may be skeptical of law enforcement, but they're no fools. ...