Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By William J. O'Brien - Phillips v. AWH Corp. , 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 13954 (July 12), p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mediation has evolved significantly in the more than 15 years that Fred D. Butler has been practicing alternat...

LOS ANGELES - Texas-based Argonaut Insurance Co. has won a record $45 million settlement from Los Angeles County's Metropolit...

LOS ANGELES - Be careful what you wish for. You might get it. Arguing a lack of jurisdiction, 13 years ago, Dow Chemical Co. a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, the same firm Coudert Brothers accused of poaching its London and Moscow ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattrone succeeded Thursday in dismissing a civil fraud lawsuit filed...

LOS ANGELES - A man who lost parts of his fingers swinging into a lake from a rope tied to a tree has sued the county and the...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a death row inmate's contention that an Alameda County pros...

LOS ANGELES - A recently enacted federal law could spawn a new specialty for experts who testify in class actions, an America...

SAN FRANCISCO - Julie Baker, a 38-year-old Stanford University scientist, spends her days peering into a microscope and tryin...

INDUSTRIAL CORONA - Orange Investment Partnership LLC acquired a 116,000-square-foot industrial building at 725 E. Harrison S...

Letter to the Editor - The New York Civil Liberties Union has sued to stop police from randomly searching some New York City s...

Forum Column By Michael McMahon Last month, police began random searches of packages carried by people entering New York City...

Forum Column - By Max Factor III - In seventh grade at El Rodeo Elementary School, I completed an English essay on "why I want...

Forcus Column - Business Law - By Jeremiah Reynolds - The threat of liability is always a major concern for businesses in Cali...

LOS ANGELES - Five orphaned siblings, homeless less than six months after a reality show built them a new house, are suing the...

LOS ANGELES - Two months after the firing of two top lawyers at Los Angeles County's Children's Law Center, 100 workers and s...

LOS ANGELES - Frustration prompted Pasadena Police Chief Bernard Melekian to look for alternative methods of resolving conflic...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to take up a defamation case involving prominent Jewish leaders ...

LOS ANGELES - A three-member arbitration panel has ordered a Native American tribe to pay at least $22.5 million to the devel...

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney general's office today will add "a significant number of new companies" to an existing lawsuit t...

Colulmn - By Garry Abrams - How long is eternity? How about 18 hours? That's how long U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Members of a state judicial watchdog agency grilled Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kevin A. Ross on Wednesd...

SAN FRANCISCO - No comment means no comment, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. Reversing a life sentence, the 9th U.S....

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco federal judge indicated Tuesday he is leery of allowing prosecutors to keep their witness lis...

ORANGE - If Superior Court Judge Josephine Staton Tucker was growing impatient with Todd A. Story's numerous objections, it d...

SAN JOSE - Jim Shore, a 16-year veteran lawyer with the Santa Clara County district attorney's office, is poised to enter the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The First Amendment does not protect an Arizona prison inmate who said he wanted to string a federal judge up...

Symantec Corp. announced it has agreed to acquire privately held Sygate Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Freemont-...

LOS ANGELES - Despite last week's $253-million verdict against Vioxx-maker Merck Co., the pharmaceutical giant says it remains...