SAN FRANCISCO - It was, Philip H. Pennypacker recalled, particularly notable when the former defense attorney had to start co...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The long-expected, much-anticipated, galactically important, almost absolutely perfect apotheosis o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A paralegal who abruptly resigned when an Irvine firm discovered he was an ex-felon now has a chance to stand ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A human rights lawyer from India who is seeking political asylum in the United States filed a lawsuit Wednesd...

LOS ANGELES - Long ago, on London soundstages and exotic locations far, far away, maverick writer-director George Lucas realiz...

SAN FRANCISCO - The patent bar was buzzing earlier this year when Research in Motion paid $450 million to fend off litigation...

WASHINGTON - Statistics cited by the Bush administration and other legal-reform advocates to support claims of a national tor...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - More than a decade ago, a then-hirsute Andre Agassi was featured in an ad campaign for a came...

Forum Column - By Lawrence R. Jensen - There have been many claims circulating recently to the effect that the United States w...

LOS ANGELES - Stanford Reichert, a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner, has been elevated to the San Bernardino Superior ...

VICTORVILLE - In what legal experts are calling an unconstitutional use of prior restraint, a Victorville judge barred a loca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stockton civil litigator Michael D. Coughlan was named Tuesday to the San Joaquin County Superior Court, Gov....

INDUSTRIAL FREMONT - Alom Technologies signed a lease for 120,433 square feet of industrial space at 48105 Warm Springs Blvd. ...

SACRAMENTO - A $45 million settlement in litigation over a Yuba County flood entailed hundreds of depositions, countless law ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A patent ruling in Singapore could have broad implications for a popular computer memory device sold in the U...

SAN DIEGO - In the "Leave It to Beaver" land of Stephanie Sontag's girlhood, the idea that she would work as an adult scarcel...

SAN DIEGO - Making the first allegations of criminal wrongdoing in San Diego's financial scandal, District Attorney Bonnie Du...

LOS ANGELES - In what was heralded as a "historic victory" for victims of clergy sexual abuse, a Los Angeles Superior Court ju...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Hardwoods Specialty Products US LP signed a six-year, $1.6 million lease for 33,902 square feet of ind...

SANTA ANA - Alejandro Avila should be executed for kidnapping and killing 5-year-old Samantha Runnion, jurors decided Monday....

SAN FRANCISCO - Political asylum in the United States is not available to foreigners who fear for their lives for refusing to...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy made it official Monday, announcing that he will retire at the...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday ordered unsealed an unspecified number of secret documents in the case file of a forme...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Thomas F. Carlucci and Mark T. Schieble - You're a tax director of a multinational corporate group...

Forum Column - By Jamie Lee Curtis and Jacqueline Conner - To get this off the table first, you must understand that both of u...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - "I think that the government has successfully proved that any service member has reasonable ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether states can be sued for violations of the federal Ameri...

RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court jury Monday dealt a blow to seven insurance companies that tried to wiggle out of covering damag...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley denounced legislation that two California congressmen introduc...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Bayer AG executive has agreed to plead guilty to participating in an international conspiracy to fix...