Focus Column Intellectual Property By Michael Plimier Attorneys use prior art references to prove that claims of a patent bei...

SAN FRANCISCO - A pastor thinking about sexually seducing an adult parishioner might want to consult a lawyer first. A three-...

Column By Garry Abrams - The sentencing of four former Symbionese Liberation Army radicals in Sacramento Friday for the 1975 m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Secretary of State Colin Powell took a break from charting the course of a nation seemingly headed toward war...

By Toni Vranjes Illegal downloading of songs and intense competition from discount retailers haven't been music to the ears o...

LOS ANGELES - Convicted felon and suspended lawyer Rex DeGeorge won a civil jury verdict last week against an insurance compa...

WASHINGTON - Debate on the nomination of Miguel A. Estrada to serve on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of C...

Forum Column - By Peter M. Douglas - The coast is never finally saved. It is always being saved. The recent Court of Appeal de...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - The advent of e-mail as a business tool has revolutionized recruiting, just as it...

MURRIETA - Judge James Warren has a long list of reasons to be thrilled that Southwest Justice Center is finally open. Warren ...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for George C. Bond, retired vice president and general counsel of Unocal Corp....

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for alleged victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests are beginning to line up in opposition t...

LOS ANGELES - With San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison closing its doors today, the firm's lawyers continue to...

LOS ANGELES - Eight months after Rex K. DeGeorge went to prison on a fraud and perjury conviction for sinking his luxury yacht...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - When President George W. Bush recently unveiled his tax cut proposals, critics charged ...

SAN BERNARDINO - A memorial service will take place Saturday in Riverside for Eugene Robert Thomas, a veteran of the U.S. Navy...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County officials have agreed to pay the promoter of the nation's largest gun show $1.6 million to se...

LOS ANGELES - Robert P. O'Neill prosecuted some mighty bad characters in his decade as a deputy district attorney, including t...

Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Terence McCormick - On Aug. 29, 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued final ru...

BERKELEY - Judge Jeffrey Tauber has played to all kinds of crowds during his 30-year career. Tauber has appeared before congre...

Forum Column - By David L. Brandon - In "1984," George Orwell described one of the most frightening worlds ever conceived in l...

SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera has tapped Farella Braun & Martel of San Francisco to litigate a controversi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ivory tower combat over tenure for a Muslim scholar at California State University, Hayward escalated Wednesd...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Employment cases are not like fender-bender cases. One simply cannot e...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Katherine S. Catlos - If employment law claims can be characterized as weapons, retaliation...

LOS ANGELES - Sean Penn may be against a war with Iraq, but that's not stopping him from waging his own legal battle with asp...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - What if a city charged Democrats, but not Republicans, to use a city facility? That might s...

Column By Garry Abrams - An attorney for a famous movie director is trying to jump-start Pinocchio with a defibrillator. In a...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge's ruling that allows the defendant in a murder case to challenge the prosecution's evidenc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Any way you slice it, carving up a law firm is a messy proposition. Even the smallest firm that fails must co...