In Closing Column - By Kate Fitzgerald - Come the first of the year, law firms will pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into...

Oliver "Lock" Holmes, a respected name in government contracts law, has followed two prominent figures in Bay Area politics to...

A recent ruling in an intellectual property lawsuit may signal the turning of the tide in cyberspace piracy, the plaintiffs' l...

The Alameda County Superior Court assignments for 2003 are the first since the state Judicial Council implemented a new rule ...

Upon college graduation, Wess Gates landed a dream job when Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. offered him a position as an assoc...

If the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department had better procedures for communicating with hearing impaired suspects, then 22...

Small, incremental layoffs and buyouts seem to be the thing at cost-conscious Pillsbury Winthrop, where another 12 nonlawyer s...

SACRAMENTO - Lawyers representing California's small cities want the state's political watchdog agency to amend its new confl...

LOS ANGELES - A partner at Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has been hit with a lawsuit by Mercury Air Gr...

LOS ANGELES - Isuzu Motors manufactured a defective sport utility vehicle that flipped when its driver swerved to avoid hittin...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - In Grutter v. Bollinger , 288 F.3d 732 (6th Cir. 2002), the 6th U.S. Circuit Court...

SAN FRANCISCO - The practice of indefinitely locking Pelican Bay State Prison inmates in their cells based on their race has ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass is leaving its office and signature rooftop bocce ball court on Kearny Stre...

SAN FRANCISCO - In today's uncertain national security climate, security has never been tighter at California's courthouses. ...

LOS ANGELES - Part of a civil rights lawsuit against a special Los Angeles police unit can go forward, a federal appeals court...

Forum Column - By James C. Turner and Suzanne M. Mishkin - This fall, HALT - An Organization of Americans for Legal Reform - r...

LOS ANGELES - Part of a civil rights lawsuit against a special Los Angeles police unit can go forward, a federal appeals court...

SUSPENSIONS Germano, Richard John , Rancho Cucamonga Guzzetta, Rudy David , San Jose Honish, Kalieh Rie , Montebello Mantle, G...

SAN FRANCISCO - Skipping court while out on bail is a big no-no. That's what burglary suspect Daniel Walker found out Thursda...

SAN JOSE - The attorney representing a Russian software company accused of circumventing copyright protections admitted in cl...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld the largest individual second-hand smoking award in the United States...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has recruited antitrust partner David R. Garcia from O'Melv...

LOS ANGELES - Proposition 36, the state law that dictates treatment, not prison, for drug addicts, should have kept David Niss...

LOS ANGELES - An 87-year-old woman's quest to recover six Gustav Klimt paintings, which she claims were stolen from her family...

SAN FRANCISCO - Already bedeviled by a child molestation scandal, the local archdiocese of the Catholic Church was on the hot...

Forum Column - By Dan Halpern and Linda Martorana - Why is San Mateo County the only Bay Area county without a public defender...

SACRAMENTO - Put your ear to the ground around the state Capitol these days and along with the grumbling over California's $2...

Forum Column - By Earl Klein - The battle rages on over separation of church and state. This time the conflict is about the Te...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A jury ruled Thursday that a diet pill made by San Diego-based Metabolife International was not responsible...