Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Harrison J. Dossick - Napster may be dead, but illegal file sharing of copyright sound r...

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying "I think I would like to talk to a lawyer" does not necessarily mean a suspect wants a lawyer, and poli...

LOS ANGELES - Ontario-based Mag Instrument Inc. has won a major copy protection victory and a monetary award by the Osaka Dis...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1989, Mary C. Dunlap, fighting for tenure for professor Eleanor Swift, went directly from a Boalt Hall ral...

LOS ANGELES - California Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, R-Orange, has joined Irvine business law firm Alvarado, Smith & Sanche...

SAN FRANCISCO - Edward Rosenthal's steady stream of media interviews defending medical marijuana during his federal trial for...

Forum Column - By Charles E. Rice - The U.S. Supreme Court has the last word, but for now, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...

LOS ANGELES - Newport Beach couple John and Christy Clarey shared a family, their multimillion-dollar company - and even thei...

Column By Garry Abrams - The University of California thinks it can get faster justice and more money in a California state co...

Reporter's Notebook By Craig Anderson SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Thomas Hansen, who took over this mon...

SAN FRANCISCO - After a long, involved courtship, San Francisco insolvency and bankruptcy firm Murphy, Sheneman, Julian &...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether employers can be held liable for harassment c...

ORANGE - Caught in the unrelenting gaze of three justices from the 4th District Court of Appeal, the lawyer paused in awkward ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo finds himself in an unusual position for a high-profile lawyer and p...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Westlands Water District, a frequent target of environmentalists for its aggressive efforts to secure irr...

LOS ANGELES - When Vicki M. Roberts ran for a judge's seat in 2000, she garnered endorsements from across Los Angeles, from c...

SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay trial lawyers group has named Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Hunter and retired Contra...

VENTURA - It may not bring him back from wherever he has fled to, but Andrew Luster, now a convicted date-rapist, could lose ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Rex S. Heinke and Sandra M. Lee - Suppose you represent a client who is being investigated by a...

Forum Column - By Elisa Massimino - The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that the preside...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Wednesday struggled over how to resolve a challenge by drug manufacturers to a Main...

Forum Column - By Robert Gnalzda and Nativo Lopez - Rehnquist may be the wrong leader to raise the issue of an increase in the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers are about to find out if securities regulators intend to go through with a plan to turn the...

LOS ANGELES - In the early morning hours, while most people are sleeping, Judge William A. MacLaughlin is awake, tending to hi...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle has been assigned to determine whether eight cases involving allega...

WASHINGTON - Handing a solid victory to prosecutors, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that a criminal conspiracy...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has handed a local environmental group a significant victory in its bitter, multimilli...

Reporter's Notebook - By Robert Selna - Nearly a year after someone detonated an explosive in a men's restroom at the Hall of ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Karen Marie Kitterman - Those companies that fail to focus on the tax aspects of the...

LOS ANGELES - Why can't American lawyers be more like the English? That question took hold of Alan Fenster when he became the ...