SAN JOSE - For students from four South Bay counties, viewing California Supreme Court oral arguments in person Tuesday was a...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a pivotal case involving the state's strict new ethics rules for arbitrators, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circ...

SAN DIEGO - City Attorney Casey Gwinn says he's tired of city-owned fax machines being flooded with junk-fax advertisements a...

Twenty-two years ago, Edward H. Drayer was the mayor of his hometown of Bellflower. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The compromise proposal to lift Pacific Gas and Electric Co. from bankruptcy came in for some rough handling ...

SAN JOSE - If the state can require a Catholic charity to provide birth control to employees to advance women's rights, what'...

Forum Column - By Jonathan E. Stern - Philosopher George Santayana once said that those who cannot remember the past are conde...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY BELLFLOWER - For $3.5 million, Landmark Equity of Irvine has purchased the 40-unit Woodruff Apartments at 1...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Alan M. Kindred - On March 4, in Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue Inc. , 123 S.Ct. 1115...

Forum Column - By Michaelbrent Collings - "The peculiar thing is that Bush pitches the new rules as if he is curbing religious...

SAN FRANCISCO - A stressed-out Los Angeles parks department worker who exclaimed "I quit!" during a tense meeting with his bo...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that invalidated the d...

WASHINGTON - Michael A. Newdow, the Sacramento doctor with a law degree who is challenging the words "under God" in the Pledg...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will use a California case to clarify when prosecutors must defend their use of peremptory cha...

LOS ANGELES - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., the rhyming lawyer who became a household name by defending O.J. Simpson against murder...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan Lewis & Bockius is making a play for a slice of Pennie & Edmonds, less than one week after Jon...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court ducked the opportunity Monday to decide whether there is a constitutional right for an...

SACRAMENTO - A lawyer who fought for Sikh independence from India and who was gruesomely tortured by Indian police won the ri...

Column By Garry Abrams - When Roy Disney resigned from the board of directors of the Walt Disney Co. Sunday, he was mad as a w...

SAN JOSE - Diebold Inc., the manufacturer of electronic voting machines whose accuracy has been questioned, told a judge Mond...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a Mexican doctor who was illegally abducted from Mexico t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has rejected as "frivolous" the state's request for immunity for a handful of San Quentin pri...

MARTINEZ - The woman was near tears telling Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Theresa J. Canepa why she missed a court date. ...

By Jed Horowitz Bloomberg News Timber Hill LLC, the world's biggest options market-maker, will close its 10-person trading op...

Column Law Practice By Karen Kaplowitz To the 3,848 new lawyers who just earned their California bar numbers, welcome to the ...

By Toni Vranjes For the third time this year, San Jose networking company Cisco Systems Inc. has asked San Francisco Fenwick ...

By Toni Vranjes Two San Jose technology companies called on Silicon Valley attorneys to help make their November initial publ...

By Stefanie Knapp When the new California Civil Jury Instructions became effective in September, many lauded the rephrasings ...

COLTON - Washington Plaza Partners sold Washington Office Plaza for $7.9 million to Drawbridge Properties LLC , which complet...

Column Trial Practice By Robert S. Blumberg While attorneys and judges may spend a lot of time contemplating the nuances of a...