LOS ANGELES - A 17-year-old San Diego girl caught bringing more than 50 pounds of marijuana across the Mexican border cannot b...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's landmark law banning assault weapons is headed for almost certain review by the U.S. Supreme Cou...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would ban secret settlements in litigation alleging physical abuse or neglect of the elderly won a l...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer Tuesday asked a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury to award at least $2.69 million to three female ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded a London music publisher $1.5 million in a copyright infringement case...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James C. Martin and Benjamin G. Shatz - Five years ago, on Jan. 1, 1998, California adopted ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court heard its first Proposition 36 case Tuesday, focusing on whether a defendant wit...

SAN DIEGO - Former Superior Court Judge James Malkus has resigned from the State Bar more than a decade after being swept up i...

Forum Column - By Richard A. Shortz - A critical piece of energy legislation, HR6, again has been circulating in Washington. L...

Forum Column - By Jim Jenal - Imagine this: The phone rings, the general counsel of your best client is on the line and she's ...

Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - The scope of the protection afforded by the litigation privilege set fort...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will decide whether the federal government must release to a Santa Cla...

SANTA ROSA - Leslie Caldwell, leader of the team of federal prosecutors investigating Enron, said over the weekend that she ex...

SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley venture capitalists have not been having the best of times lately. Seed funding for technology ...

RICHMOND - A dozen Richmond residents commemorated Cinco de Mayo on Monday by filing a $1.7 million police-abuse lawsuit in fe...

LOS ANGELES - In two rulings that a civil rights attorney said could affect hundreds of other civil rights cases, a federal ju...

Column By Garry Abrams - The Winnie the Pooh royalty case exploded with verbal pyrotechnics Monday in the seventh-floor hallwa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists are cheering a ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who has held that an enclosed po...

LOS ANGELES - Over the past 21/2 months, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury has heard graphic allegations of sexual harassment ...

SANTA ROSA - Chief U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel told lawyers gathered for the Northern California judges' conference...

SAN FRANCISCO - The scenario by now is familiar: Three off-duty, rookie police officers - including Alex Fagan Jr., the son of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Telemarketers for charities are free to keep most of the donations they solicit, but if they lie about it they...

SAN DIEGO - Presiding Judge Richard E.L. Strauss speaks passionately about the growing isolation of judges and the evolving co...

Now that my trademark application is on file, can I use the (r) symbol on my packaging and advertisements? Should we use the (...

Dallas' Jenkens & Gilchrist has hired Gary Samson to handle financing matters for firm client Bank of America. Samson, who...

Jack Johal was the first tax lawyer to join Neumiller & Beardslee, Stockton's largest law firm. When Johal took his practi...

Richard M. Cieri has settled into his new job as chair of the business restructuring and reorganization practice at Gibson, Du...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's September 2001 announcement that it was moving most of the firm's support services to a g...

Dean Hansell arrived in American Samoa with boxes of law books for legal research, exhibits, several copies each of motions an...

San Diego's Leap Wireless International Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 relief, swelling the ranks of bankrupt telecommunication...