SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop announced Thursday it will lay off 25 staff members at its New York office and replace tho...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided California Supreme Court imposed new restrictions on mandatory arbitration Thursday in an e...

SANTA ANA - A federal bankruptcy judge approved a $6.1 million settlement Thursday in a unique case that pitted 470 San Cleme...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court reinforced the confidentiality of law enforcement personnel files Thursday, sayi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Courts statewide are preparing to impose unpaid furloughs and early retirement and to cut full-time positions...

SAN DIEGO - When she received the rejection slip in the mail, Jennifer Gratz was so embarrassed that she didn't tell her clos...

Supreme Court Column By David F. Pike WASHINGTON - The California attorney general's office is having a banner term at the Su...

Focus Column Entertainment Law By David Halberstadter In William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," Juliet asks her love, "Wha...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys appearing in Judge Robert C. Gustaveson's Pomona courtroom know better than to do or say anything foo...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court is closing its San Pedro lockup and transferring all harbor criminal cases to th...

Column By Garry Abrams - If a latter-day Rip Van Winkle dared to go to sleep for 20 years in Los Angeles, he might wake up to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rather than close its Palo Alto office or wait until its lawyers defected, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly i...

WASHINGTON - Congress' inclusion in the recently passed appropriations bill of a provision blocking the federal government's r...

LOS ANGELES - Come Saturday, people won't have the Immigration and Naturalization Service to kick around anymore. In its plac...

SANTA ANA - In another act of belt-tightening for Orange County Superior Court as a result of the state's budgetary woes, nig...

LOS ANGELES --Assistant City Attorney Anthony Saul Alperin, who served as Los Angeles' top ethics and election lawyer, died We...

LOS ANGELES - Police experts on Wednesday endorsed Los Angeles Police Department Chief William Bratton's call for an outside c...

WASHINGTON - Roy T. Englert Jr. is by his own admission a "risk-averse stick in the mud." But in May 2001, at age 42, Englert...

SAN JOSE - The California Highway Patrol has reached a settlement in a class action by nonwhite drivers in which it agrees to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Daniel Harris is known among his fellow intellectual property lawyers as the Microsoft expert, the man compani...

LOS ANGELES - As Pasadena retiree Bob Bartsch drove home through the Angeles National Forest one summer day in 1998, he spotte...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brian Clearwater, longtime calendar coordinator for the California Supreme Court, has died of a sudden illness...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's judges and court administrators were admonished Wednesday to act more like business people if the...

Forum Column - By Ronald M. Papell - The battle raging in Washington over patients' rights has stalemated over the White House...

LOS ANGELES - Child care centers can be sued for negligence even if they asked parents to sign a waiver, a state appeals cour...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Douglas A. Greer - Elder-abuse claims against physicians have become increasingly prevalent. The ...

Reporter's Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - A couple of exotic dancers in Humboldt County made legal history this week. But they...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Michael A. Shimokaji - The litigation of patents, trademarks and copyrights often st...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued a small plaintiffs law firm Wednesday, claiming its members had violated the s...

SAN FRANCISCO - El Paso Corp., the nation's largest natural gas pipeline company, is headed for trial in 11 coordinated antitr...