SAN FRANCISCO - A spokesman for the San Francisco police legal department said Tuesday that, upon the advice of unnamed local...

Column By Garry Abrams - Life was getting tense Monday morning for Remedy, a tree sitter who has been perched in an ancient Hu...

LOS ANGELES - Four of the 26 Skadden Fellows chosen for 2003 will work in California, New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meaghe...

Forum Column - By Charles L. Hobson - California's three-strikes law has a history of vindication in the face of opposition. I...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives the states, as well a...

Forum Column - By Kirsten Levingston - When Clarence Earl Gideon crept into a poolroom in Panama City, Fla., 40 years ago, and...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Monica lawyer Monday filed an objection to Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's attempt to postpone yet ag...

SAN FRANCISCO - Controversy has found Judge Elliot Daum in a hurry. In just two years since Daum became the first public defen...

Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Pfaff - Former San Francisco attorney Clifford Chanler, because of his occasionally volatile p...

WASHINGTON - The Medical Board of California told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that it would not pay any damages or costs ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Glen "Buddy" Nickerson, who has spent 18 years in prison for a double murder he may not have committed, had hi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Although buried in debt, defunct Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has found another law firm to represent it aga...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit brought by a former Catholic nun who claim...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judges no longer need to advise pro se criminal defendants about their Fifth Amendment privilege against compe...

SAN FRANCISCO - At 59, patent attorney James Sheridan should have been planning his retirement and improving his golf game. In...

SAN DIEGO - Roch Ward says he planned a romantic Christmas Eve surprise for his girlfriend. He would propose to Laurie Lyons b...

SAN DIEGO - The roadside memorial on Imperial Avenue in Lemon Grove is bright with flowers brought by friends of two El Cajon ...

SANTA ANA - Former priest John Peter Lenihan has been arrested and charged with 10 felony counts of child molestation, breath...

RIVERSIDE - In a rare foray into state criminal court, controversial civil-rights lawyer Stephen Yagman will defend a mother a...

If fate had smiled differently on Jack Schwartzman, he could have held the professional title of DJ rather than JD. Schwartzma...

Bay Area software developer Panscopic Corp. has finalized a $10 million second round of financing. New investor Morgenthaler V...

In Closing Column - By Ida Abbott - Performance reviews have an undeserved bad reputation. Most law firms review associates on...

Orange County Superior Court Judge John C. Woolley has retired after 20 years on the bench - a tenure marked by key decisions...

With a budget deficit projected to climb to $35 billion, the Legislature has more to worry about than the immediate needs of t...

Fresh off multimillion-dollar victories in Florida, Arkansas and Mississippi, the plaintiffs' lawyers of Wilkes & McHugh f...

Advisor Column - By Susan Page White - Some jurors have become semi-celebrities in America. They appear on a variety of news p...

Proving that intellectual property litigation is hard to wrap your arms around, a judge in San Francisco ruled last month that...

Two technology companies in Orange County with the same name peacefully co-existed for three decades, until one expanded its b...

Chicago's McDermott, Will & Emery acquired intellectual property boutique Campbell & Flores on March 3. The addition o...

Four trademark lawyers and one patent lawyer from recently dissolved Skjerven Morrill have moved, respectively, to Dorsey &...