WASHINGTON - Handing a defeat to Congress and the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the free-speech ri...

WASHINGTON - In a decision that offered a victory to the Bush administration and to victims of human rights abuses, the Suprem...

SANTA ANA - Each day of their eight-week gang-rape trial, the baby-faced, neatly dressed trio sat with their hands folded. The...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Communications Decency Act shields makers of spam-blocking software against suits by commercial e-mailers ...

Focus Column - Business Law - By Margaret Mann and Joanne Doughty - Because of well-publicized corporate scandals and misdeeds...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Archdiocese will join Roman Catholic officials from Iowa in a major legal challenge to the Calif...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Matthew Powers started a three-lawyer patent litigation practice in Silicon Valley for Weil, Gotshal &...

Forum Column - By Matthew S. Steinberg and Linda M. Hoos - The decision in Jarrow v. La Marche, 310 Cal.4th 728 (2003),...

Forum Column - By Taimie Bryant and Vicki Steiner - Six years ago, state Sen. Tom Hayden introduced a complex animal shelter-r...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By Gerald G. Knapton - Does your existing retainer agreement have a provision for a lien to secu...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Senate has confirmed former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George P. Schiavelli for a district court ...

LOS ANGELES - A defense attorney on Monday disputed police accounts that his client was carrying a pair of wire cutters when h...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider the contentious issue of whether federal law enforcement officials ca...

SAN DIEGO - Hoping to resolve a 15-year-old controversy, City Attorney Casey Gwinn on Monday said the fate of a 45-year-old co...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury Monday absolved two Northern California law firms of malpractice claims stemming from a 1...

Column By Garry Abrams - In thrillers such as "The Manchurian Candidate," the novelist Richard Condon often dreamed up as char...

SAN FRANCISCO - The loquacious lawyers defending three allegedly corrupt Oakland police officers in the Riders case retrial wi...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday issued a trio of historic decisions striking a balance between national security and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously held Monday that there's nothing cruel or unusual about forcing a def...

The U.S. Supreme Court threw a bone to both prosecutors and defense attorneys on Monday with two separate rulings interpreting...

WASHINGTON - Acting quickly in response to last week's landmark Supreme Court ruling on sentencing, members of the U.S. Senten...

This week, Los Angeles Superior Court plans to begin offering neutrals a chance to make more money. Until now, neutrals who jo...

SACRAMENTO - The state's Fair Political Practices Commission has taken on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger - and much of the rest of...

Laundry giant Cintas Corp couldn't take the starch out of litigation brought against it by its own Bay Area employees. Cintas ...

Partner Steve Swinton was named chair of Cooley Godward's intellectual property practice June 15 following the defection of th...

George Hedges, the attorney representing Mel Gibson's movie company Icon Distribution, sees his client's fight against Regal E...

Members of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America will enjoy Independence Day in historic Boston, the site this year of t...

Mark Litvack, former Motion Picture Association of America vice president, has joined Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & K...

Lawrence Steinberg has joined Santa Monica's Gilchrist & Rutter as a partner in the firm's litigation group. Steinberg joi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A labor agreement struck last week between San Francisco Superior Court and its clerks and secretaries might f...